italian parliament gives final approval to a sweeping new posterity initiative paving the way for silvio berlusconi's resignation as the country strains to restore confidence in its faltering economy. the arab league decides to suspend and sanction syria in an effort to force a sad to stop the bloodshed in the country move sparks fears of a western backed repeat of the libyan scenario. i wonder land 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. but also reporting this hour china's booming economy is always met with open arms by

the united states sometimes painting the merging superpower as a dangerous prospect the top stories this. international news in come at night from moscow this is r.t. with 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 the pm seat won't remain vacant from the with veteran bureaucrat mario monti consent to take the baton from under scrutiny the public reaction so far has been mixed with some celebrating going to fall while others are wary of the future correspondent in italy sarah first has the details. with history siegel now finalized in the lower

house today it's expected that prime minister berlusconi is going to be meeting with president policy and handing in his resignation as he promised to do once those reforms have passed now moving on from that you're going to probably see the formation of some form of caretaker government and it's expected that the man at the moment being paid to take that top spot is a very respected economist here in italy called mario monti he's been nicknamed super mario. task will be before him where he had to take that top spot now he's a former mission he's a year he knows the system inside killings of brussels so certainly they'd be pleased to see him but there is a question mark over whether a caretaker government is going to have the public support necessary to push through these reforms because of course is one thing to pass these measures is another thing to implement them and you know having

a successful implementation of reforms is going to take years and for that you're going to the democratic legitimacy and there is a question mark over unelected government now taking the reins and i was in virally today speaking to some people in the town there who were holding protests there were a couple of thousand and one of the measures that they were protesting with government spending a waste of taxpayers' money and really what they were saying was very clear is that whatever happens now and whoever takes power is that they're really going to want to see their politicians and the people in charge leading by example and of course they simply haven't seen that under perilous gagne especially in the last couple of years and quite the opposite in the face of the quizes berlusconi has been perceived as just partying his way very carelessly through a very critical time for the country and that's where the focus is turning to because why. prime minister berlusconi resigns he is expected to the question is

what kind of country is he handing to his predecessor and the country is and has been suffering for years and this economic social and political stake nation and kickstarting that is going to be a major challenge and a big part of that is going to be regaining public trust and the credibility that's been lost in recent times because without the public support these reforms are simply not going to work so for reporting and 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 new years is some governments not as strong as are those not taking the decisive action that they need to take frankly not getting on top of the events now their elected governments installed the difficult for democratic machinery to be used simply to take out

a government that's been democratically elected i don't see what we've seen to be 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 or not is to put those countries to get the governments they need at this particular time no i don't attach any value judgement to that it's merely an observation that in these circumstances we've seen gold market to much for a team rather more effectively than ordinary democracy. and as the euro crisis continues to chip away confidence in the european union's leadership max and stacey about to cast their eyes over rice speculators and so we go to see the crisis raging on because reports coming away twenty one thirty g.m.t. here's a quick preview of what you can expect. every time the eurozone creates a dollar or a euro instead they create a hundred euros in naked short sells 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 intransigent takhar see with unlimited credit and 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 quo movement is quickly gathering place in germany with almost twenty thousand people protesting right now in both the capital bird. in the country's financial heartland the frankfurt protesters are waving placards and locking arms in solidarity seeking to draw attention to rampant corporate greed and the increasing poverty of the masses german occupy movement is also made significant steps in legitimizing itself having and the support of two major political factions

two thousand and one of the protocol of attacking germany group told me earlier that she believes berlin is partly responsible for europe's economic woes. it is needed to have protests and broader 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 closeness for people and we learned during the last years there it's a 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 stiff 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 but in our country too there is no person active how to go on if this crisis is going on further and it will. 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 came to quell nearby the accomplice dressed as a matter door attempted to attract the beasts attention. and you can head online to see how this fight and. of course or not a huge test for polish police ahead of the upcoming euro twenty twelve championships is hundreds of football hooligans run riot follow how the authorities coach at r.t. dot com.

the world's political and economic heavyweights from the asia pacific nations to send a policy sunny hawaii this weekend that says 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. 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 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 with 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 talk the talk 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 the 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 and 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 it's the only responsible thing to do some opposition groups particularly you do these meetings in turkey and the u.s. . just position can be needed just to use we will continue to encourage the opposition to small constructive leads to show concern about their 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'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 iraq. well for instant updates from the asia pacific summit in honolulu you can head to twitter strings course on their side of work or tweets that the

aloha spirit overwhelms the gathering at the moment even undercover agents are patrolling the beaches in florida shirts and flip flops there's also plenty more of these facebook and you tube pages. it's. the. arab league's voted to suspend syria from the organization until a peace plan is implemented to stop the bloodshed the member states of also be a nurse to withdraw their own passages from damascus and use economic and political sanctions the decision which has already received a useful backing was praised by u.s.

president barack obama came at an emergency session in cairo an overwhelming majority of member states supported the move but only eleven yemen and syria itself voting against the wall for analysis let's talk to dr aleutians professor of economics and say tonight the street in jordan assad's administration is claiming it's already implementing the league brokered peace plan so why are they running out of patience why suspend it from the organization not. i think that the arab league expected syria to reject the in the shop of but instead syria except of the arab initiative and was expecting the day before yesterday to have the names of the out of the allegation that was supposed to come to syria to oversee the implementation of the in the shock of instead the arab league hurried to have this emergency meeting so the clerk that the assad regime has lost its legitimacy i think what's going on here is an attempt by nato to do

a rerun of the libyan scenario and i think russia is pretty much on the spot as far as that goes it's very important for russia and china to use the veto in the security council because the arab league has said that the issue will go to the security council the international organizations namely the u.s. and the u.n. shortly what we have here is a plan to topple the syrian regime and clearly establish a nato friendly regime and its place so we have to look at this in geo strategic terms the arab league does not represent the arab people presents nato at this point well syria says that the league is serving a western and american agenda but we are talking about eighteen arab countries turning against another arab country is that really certain then that there is a western and american influence behind this or i'll not be arab countries generally concerned about what's happening in syria. it is very important to

realize that these countries do not represent the arab people and those arab countries have been following the dictates of the us government for decades now these are not really and dependent states their political decision making as this is dictated from abroad and we have seen that in libya before and we have seen that and iraq during the period of sanctions so this is not the first time that the arab league has a hope of decisions or implement the decisions made outside the arab world the league is calling for member states to sanction syria but won't sanctions actually hurt the people there more than the regime itself actually even the united states policymakers and many papers and declarations have said that the purpose of the sanctions is to turn the business community against the assad regime this is just like what happened then at the point is to starve the people and to make the

people poorer and poorer so they would come to embrace a nato friendly regime this is a city a scenario we have seen and love than america a lot more people and the people already campaigning on on their own when it is not is it not a generated our revolution as such from the people themselves. i do not think that we can call it a revolution especially after the new revelations that there's an armed insurgency and now there are open the collaboration's by the people conducting these operations against the syrian army and against syrian security troops so now they are openly. performing military operations all over the place against the syrian army and military apparatus so we have seen support from turkey from the g.c.c. and from the european union for. that encompasses economic military

as well as economic political and diplomatic means the league has invited opposition leaders to a meeting has been speaking about setting up a kind of transitional period in effect this is quite reminiscent is it not of the libya style national transitional council absolutely i think the point behind this decision as to pave the way for a rerun of what happened in libya first the legitimize the regime that is opposing your interests and then install a regime that is friendly to your interests this is every run of the transitional council that was installed in libya so what what we are seeing here is a war this war is not being conducted openly of the way it was enough guns done or iraq it has been conducted through other means meaning through clan the stein and underground methods and through open the plan magic and economic pressure and unfortunately or fortunately the arab league is being

a tool in the spike or we have to finish it just briefly assad stays the number ten just very briefly your view of his future i'm sorry i didn't hear a question chad stays a number ten his teacher is looking very pleased now just very briefly. i could not hear they can't even. leave it there we have actually run out of time sorry about that thank you very much hope that you will have a louche more offensive economics things that you know university in jordan joining us life there. amid the financial woes of american europe investors are making a sharp turn to the east which china keeps on rising in the ranks on the global economic stage asians might however is not being met with enthusiasm in the u.s. ortiz a devout usera assesses the attitudes that. we shall not what you always were telling me obama may want to see if we can see the sixty. four years old geezer to. succumb the process.

should go to. 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 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 a march twentieth eleven b.b.c. call 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 but 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 or what we need to do is start in rich saying 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. doesn't have to be us or them and isn't buying it the world is changing you know so like. that's like china's economy is modernizing . isn't the reason why our economy is doing poorly right now. and so maybe just a straw man. presidential candidates bring that up but. countries do just as any other country. i don't wait if it comes from the us 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. . to see how they deal with reporting from washington i'm not going to say oh. come

on helen from occidental college in los angeles says bush and feels the need to paint china as a new evil. 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 this 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. political correctness many many

stopping to think before opening them elves these days but it's not going to fall and that's a question and it's been known as the president has been pushing the people in. a recent poll indicated that people are starting to feel like political correctness is having a negative effect then society how do you feel about it this week let's talk about that being 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 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 and i mean we've called thing in england where comedians have been holed up in political correctness where i think you 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 going to be someone who looks for something to complain about my generation we don't really care we just laugh it's funny but it just depends if like generations ago i think 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 that sometimes what comes out of your man 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 the you'd rather be offended in at least have the truth yes very much so but they're 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.

small headline news from around the world for nearly twenty four minutes past the iran has been rocked by a powerful explosion at an ammunition about forty kilometers outside. of tehran the least seventeen people reported killed and sixteen wounded two consecutive blast ripped through the site southwest of the capital shattering windows in by buildings emissions facility surprised the country's revolutionary guard but lost a rule back to dental but the exact cause remains unclear. 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 of burma which is just being struck by two earthquakes in a matter of weeks the latest on wednesday claimed the lives of more than thirty people but we have a japanese aid worker has been returned home and 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. now it's time for a close up series who put the spotlight on the many wonders of russia for. we're on the black sea coast in the self place but slower tourists who come here to get their dose of relaxation under the sun but now this region is also attracting hundreds of thrill seekers. testing 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 receive 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 and water. he's currently number two in russia and risk in 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 investments 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 believing in the black sea power. it's evidence of the growing status of water sports but i won't be joining them any time soon. but 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 trick you have a full one hundred times the black sea provides good conditions for this war 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 with the advantage of russia is we can snow kite. again it's money that's the problem for most kite surfer 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 pursuit in russia. do 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 tom martin r.t. . coming up very soon spotlight her style going off talks to the deputy c.e.o. of russia's largest bank on the day of its one hundredth and seventieth anniversary would be after i have a look at the headlines for you in just a few minutes from now stay with us life on r.t.

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