led. believing that tower very was coney finally falls the italian prime minister resigns after parliament approves a new austerity package intended as a last line of defense against a collapsing confidence in its economy. the dark clouds of the european debt overshadow the summit in hawaii as the talk of asia pacific commies look to limit the fallout and prevent another global recession. the arab league suspends in syria recommending sanctions against the country in an effort to force president assad to end of the deadly unrest that claimed more than three and a half thousand lives. and

top news and commentary direct from the heart of moscow this is our to glad to have you with us it's the end of an era in italy as the country's charismatic prime minister silvio berlusconi steps down and comes after the lower house of parliament gave its final approval to a new vast new austerity package which was a precondition for his resignation the new p.m.'s seat though won't remain vacant for long with better in europe about mario monti looking set to take the baton from berlusconi the public reaction so far has been mixed with some celebrating berlusconi's fall while others are wary of the future our correspondent in italy sara firth has the details. better stares he lot finally say oh so here berlusconi state and he stepped down as prime minister of the country now for

better or worse he was certainly a character and it's going to be a massive change now that he's resigned from the post optimism certainly for the future but what the future will be right now remains uncertain it's thought that a caretaker government is going to be put in place the man is in paid for the top spot is very well respected economists here in the country. he's the former commissioner he's a euro quite he knows the system inside and killings of brussels this certainly a question mark over whether he's going to have the democratic legitimacy that is needed to gain public support of course and an elected government taking the reins does raise a lot of questions because we've seen these measures pass through these are just the initial steps and was as a short term measure certainly they're going to go some way to sterling that panic that we saw at the beginning of the week and to coming some more it's the fear that italy was literally about to be sucked into that that's about that we've seen

countries like greece be sucked into a bit of course short term measures only last so long we're going to really now need to look at whether whatever government now follows is going to be able to put in place long term sustainable measures to get the country as a crisis situation that it's found itself in those environments a day speaking to some people in the town who were holding a protest 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 though you have a 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 under berlusconi especially in the last couple of years and quite the opposite. in the face of the crisis berlusconi is being perceived. partying his way very carelessly

to be a very critical time for the country i'm reading now that's where the focus is turning to and the country is and has been suffering for years. economic political stagnation and kickstarting that is going to be a major challenge and a big positive but it's 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. reporting for us there and are staying with the story peter mandelson the former british secretary of state says it's incredible that market pressure on greece and italy managed to ours to their respective leaders when millions of protesters in those countries could not. well what we've seen recently in new year is there is some governments not as strong as all those not taking the decisive action that they need to take frankly not getting on top of events now their elected governments install the difficult democratic machinery to be used

simply to take out a government that's been democratically elected and actually what we've seen to be the case i think of greece and italy we've seen the bond markets people are 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 no i don't attach any value judgement to that is merely an observation that in these circumstances we've seen. breaking rather more effectively than ordinary democracy. and as the crisis continues to chip away at confidence in the european union's leadership max and stacey are back to cast their eyes over why speculators are so eager to see the crisis rage on the kaiser report is coming your way next hour here's what you can expect. every euro zone creates a dollar or euro instead realize they create are under erode naked short sell

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 entranced 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. and coming up in just a few minutes. the pro equality occupy movement blossoms in germany has found signs of protestors that flood the political and financial capitals of the country demanding the government bring in corporate and banking greed. and to china's booming economy isn't always met with open arms which the united states sometimes painting the emerging that superpower as

a dangerous prospect. the arab league has voted to suspend to syria from the organization until a peace plan is implemented to stop the bloodshed there takes place in about four days time member states have also been urged to withdraw their ambassadors from damascus and use economic and political sanctions or decision which has already received that use 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 a lebanon yemen and syria itself voting against the director of the center for research on globalization michel chossudovsky believes the league's move is an act of provocation orchestrated by washington this is not that this issue of lee all the arab world is a decision but washington. and it is there to

just. war plans directed this 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 on the arab league on gun ban which are al-qaeda affiliated entities paramilitary we're sent in to trigger a new round of civilian casualties it is not to say that the government. 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 and armed insurgency with preview to destabilize the syria as a nation states nato and the united states are preparing for mobility

campaign directed against syria and the humanitarian pretext while at the same time they have supported the other big wreck should which has created this this process of instability the annual apec forum has brought together the world's political and economic heavyweights from asia pacific nations in hawaii this weekend and meeting comes as storm clouds gather thousands of kilometers away over the euro zone where he's an associate brings us the latest from honolulu. delegations of high level officials from twenty one economies have finally gathered for a two day a practice summit here in the sunny state of hawaii now traditionally the goals of the apec summit are to work on lifting customs barriers boosting trade among countries off the asia pacific as well as eventually creating a free and open trade zone but this year however there is no chance for impact leaders to ignore the fact that a european debt crisis is looming over the global economy and this is certainly something that is going to be discussed here

a lot on the ground in the two days to come we are expecting to be a proper leaders to send a strong message to the european countries for them to start working harder to try to find solutions to the debt crisis going on on the ground where italy has replaced greece as the mean reds to security there are a range of working sessions taking place throughout the weekend as well as q. and a's with business leaders from all over the world there are as many as fifteen hundred business leaders gathered here and also of course importantly bilateral meetings between leaders mainly we are expecting a meeting between russian president dmitry medvedev and u.s. president barack obama they are expected to talk about things like u.s. plans for european missile defense shield as well as russia's future at the world trade organization is always a bunch of as well as an area of other different issues so we'll certainly be bringing our viewers all the latest when it comes to events throughout the night it's two days and for instant updates from the asia pacific summit in honolulu to our g.'s twitter streams. our correspondents at

a very tweeted that the aloha spirit overwhelms the gathering even under cover agents are patrolling the beaches in flowing shorts and flip flops there's also plenty more of our cheesy facebook and you can pages as well. pro equality occupy movement is quickly gathering pace in germany with almost twenty thousand people protesting in berlin and frankfurt protesters waved placards and locked arms in solidarity seeking to draw attention to rampant corporate greed

be increasing poverty of the masses and german occupy movement has also made significant steps in legitimizing itself having early the support of two major political factions just undermanned of the quality attractive germany group believes berlin is partly responsible for europe's economic woes it is needed to have protests and broader movements in all of european countries and we know they're tearing germany germany is one of the countries that course is 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 listeners for people and we learned during the last years there it's a very very soon taxpayers are forced to help to save the banks we learned in two thousand and eight what's 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 protest 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 perfect if how to go on if this crisis is going on further and it's a real earlier we spoke to anatoly carlin founder of the sublime oblivion blog he thinks that the occupy movement should work out a better strategy. it is based on a of was. going for several years although there are you simply asking. big banks being bailed during the economic crisis. skylark of the nearly ten percent. began asking why they bailed out i was not. there was

a tipping point under tipped over some aspects of the movement connecting it with the issues facing americans which i think is important to the movement success so i think it's good that they're connecting it with the issues but what's the problem is. the main fairly a more. organized and i am not sure that this model is sustainable they have to move on through concrete actions and also they have. within mainstream politics to take their views into account. and still ahead for you this hour it is the return of our new york resident where this week laurie harshness to find out of passers by are fed up with political correctness. we've gone thing in england where the sun comedians have been pulled up on political correctness it's been carried overboard people who are getting a little crazy with being yeah having to worry about every word they say should we censor every word that comes out of our mouths more of what the people in the big

apple think and just around a few minutes time. amid the financial woes of america and europe investors are making a sharp turn it to the east where china keeps on rising in the ranks of the global economic stage beijing's that might however is not being met with enthusiasm in the us or she's adriana sero assesses the attitudes. we see on not the words we tell me about not maybe we come up against the cecil look again don't see the city. limits that come to pass a. jen sacramento to get warm and 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 fraid 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 twenty seventh 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 a u.k. and the u.s. on unhappy at the thought of china nipping at their heels and for the u.s. nowhere is that clear but in the race to the white house china is on almost every dimension cheated this is no longer a time for us to sit back and say we're going to let them steal our jobs we need to do is start in reaching china with our money 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. doesn't have to be us or them and isn't even buying it's the world 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 the straw man. in. presidential candidates bring out but they get into business incident economics it was countries to just work with china as any other country so yeah i don't know where it 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 us to see how they deal with reporting from washington and i kind of said oh i see dr caroline hellman from occidental college and at los angeles says washington it 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 this republican considers 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 that 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. now moving on to our website or to dot com you can find out how the occupy wall street demonstration was turned into performance art. new york police detained a wound while nearby and their accomplice dressed as another door attempted to

attract. attention but i'm going to see how this fight is also. a huge interest for polish police ahead of the upcoming year old twenty twelve championships as hundreds of football hooligans of run riot find out before you some cold. political correctness and may have many stopping to think before opening their mouths these days but is it now going too far that's the question more of her finished better known as the resident has been putting 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 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 if you live in this country you should be politically correct because this is your country what does that mean is that 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 polled on political correctness well 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 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 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 young 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 or 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. in kazakhstan at least seven people have died in an attack by what authorities are calling an islamic militant five police officers were among those shot by the gunman in the southern city of it he also killed the owner and a customer of a weapons store in hijack a car reports say the attacker then returned to his home where he collected a rocket launcher and fired on

a security forces building just before the user say the gunman blew himself up one supported by police. now some more headlines for you from around the world at this moment iran has been rocked by a powerful explosion at an ammunition depot about forty kilometers outside of tehran with at least seventeen people reported killed and sixteen wounded two consecutive blasts ripped through the site southwest of the capital shattering windows in nearby buildings and munitions facilities supplies the country's revolutionary guard blasts 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 dale huge by a devastating tsunami in march it was at the world's worst nuclear crisis since.

the turkish prime minister has visited the region of vonage which has been struck by two or three weeks in a matter of weeks the latest on wednesday claimed the lives of more than thirty people the body of a japanese aid worker has been returned home he was rescued alive but from the rubble that died later in the hospital two journalists were also among those killed they had been reporting on the previous quake which left six hundred dead. and now it's time for our close up series as we put the spotlight on the many wonders of russia for. we're on the black sea coast in the south a place bustling with tourists who come here to get per dose of relaxation under the sun but now this region is also attracting hundreds of thrill seekers archies

tom barton tested the waters. slowly the old soviet resorts on russia's black sea coast are becoming sensors are 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 hope 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 sharing the growing water sports experience here and on is one of the best. when you ride in your board at top speed your feelings so 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 and 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 free style 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 third of all a big thing in the black sea it's elements of the growing status of water sports. 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 have been battling it out to prove their speed and agility surrogate has been crowned number one in russia.

is a lot of adrenaline as well it's all about tricks and a lot of adrenaline now it's easier to master a trick you have to feel 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 that standard. but 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 is 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 pursuit in russia. or the sport needs young people in ten years i want to see hundreds of kids kiting here and then we'll be in good hands we'll have a future. a feature that will be played out here in the surging blue of the black

sea tom watson r.t. . and i'll be back with a recap of our top stories in a few minutes. rajan clean ghost town. squandered morning.

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