in an emergency room. we have the most expensive health care system in the world and it's probably valued the least. the leaning tower of berlusconi 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 european debt overshadow the apec summit in hawaii as the top asia pacific economies are look to limit the fallout and prevent another global recession. the arab league it suspends its syria recommending sanctions against the country in an effort to force president assad to end of the deadly unrest that's claimed more than three and a half thousand lives.

top news headlines and commentary direct from the russian capital moscow this is r.t. glad to have you with us it is the end of an era in italy as the country's charismatic prime minister silvio berlusconi steps down it comes after the lower house of parliament gave its final approval to a vast new austerity package which was a precondition for his resignation the p.m.'s seat won't remain vacant for long though with veteran euro credit 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 first has the details. that a star if you will finally theo's silvio 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 and now that he's resigned from the pros optimism certainly for a future who bought that future will be right now remains uncertain is that a caretaker government is going to be put in place and the man is being paid the top spot is very well respected economists here in the country. he's the former commissioner he's a year he knows the system inside and killings of brussels there's 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 once we've seen these measures pass through these are just the initial steps almost as a short term measure certainly they're going to be some way to standing that panic that we saw at the beginning of the week and to coming somewhat the fear that italy

was literally about to be sucked into that that's that we've seen countries like greece be sucked into the political short term measures only last so long you'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 out of the crisis situation that it's found itself then and i was in a bar earlier today speaking to some people in the town there 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 whoever takes power is that the really going to want to see their politicians and those people in charge leading by example and of course they simply haven't seen that under berlusconi especially in the last couple of years i mean quite the opposite in the face of the crisis berlusconi has been perceived as just partying his way. very carelessly to be

a very critical time for the country. that's where the focus is turning to and the country is and has been suffering for years and this economic social and political stagnation and kickstarting that is going to be a major challenge and a big part of that is going to be gaining 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. sara first reporting there from let me line and peter mandelson the former british secretary of state says it's incredible the market pressure on greece and italy managed to oust their respective leaders when millions of protesters in those countries couldn't do it. well what we've seen recently in new year is there is some government not as strong as others not taking the decisive action that they need to take frankly not getting on top of events now their elected government says for all the difficult for democratic machinery to be

just simply to take out. a government that's been democratically elected and actually what we've seen certainly in the case i think of greece and italy we've seen the bond markets being able to achieve what normal democratic means had 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 it's merely an observation that in these circumstances we've seen. for a team rather more effectively than ordinary democracy and coming up in just a few minutes. prodi quality occupy movement blossoms in germany as thousands of protesters of flood the political and financial capitals of the country demanding the government brain incorporate in banking greed. and china's a booming economy isn't always met with open arms if the united states sometimes

painting the emerging superpower as a dangerous prospect. the arab league's voted to suspend syria from the organization until a peace plan is implemented to stop the bloodshed there that takes effect on wednesday member states have also been urged to withdraw their ambassadors from damascus and use economic and political sanctions the decision which has already received the 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 levanon 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 the decision to. be. oh washington but around the. world is

a decision of washington and it is there to justify war plans directed 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. for peace proposal of the arab league on gunman which are al-qaeda affiliated entities arugula three questions to trigger a new round of civilian casualties it is not to say that the government dog shows all assad doesn't bear responsibility but we must understand that the very parties to this to this arab league the session also complicit in supporting an insurgency and all of insurgency with you to destabilize syria as

a nation states big toe and the united states are preparing for nobility campaign directed against syria are big humanitarian pretext but at the same time they have supported but all of the rection which has created this this process of instability dr evil hema lucia professor of economics at zaytuna university in jordan says russia and china should try and curb the arab league's ambitions. 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 explain this so we have to look at this in geo strategic

terms the arab league does not represent the arab people represent snaith or at this point i do not think that we can call it a revolution especially after the new revelations that there is 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 the 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 end you all apec forum has brought together the world's political and economic heavyweights from asia pacific nations in hawaii this weekend the meeting comes as storm clouds

gather thousands of kilometers away over the euro zone or he's on star trek in a brings us the latest from a little. delegations of high level officials from twenty one economies have finally gathered for a two day practice summit here in the sunny state of why now traditionally the goals of the apec summit are to work on lifting customs barriers boosting trade among countries of 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 we are expecting the apac 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 we are expecting a meeting between russian president dmitry medvedev and u.s. president barack obama the 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 as well as a bunch of as well as an area of other different issues that will certainly be bringing our viewers all the latest when it comes to events throughout the day it's two days. and on the stuff is not our only correspondent in honolulu for instance updates from the asia pacific summit head to. head of a meeting between the russian and u.s. presidents our correspondent. tweets that obama says of russia's entry into the euro would create opportunities for american business there's also plenty more piece of facebook pages as well.

he. is. the quality occupy movement is quickly gathering pace in germany with almost twenty thousand people protesting in berlin and frankfurt protesters waved placards on the locked arms in solidarity seeking to draw attention to. greed and the increasing the poverty of the masses the german occupy movement has also made significant steps in the legitimizing itself earned the support of two major political factions . of the quality attacking germany group believes that 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. as 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 protest they agreed 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 will earlier we spoke to anatoly current founder of the sublime oblivion blog he thinks of the occupy movement should work out a better strategy. it is based. on the best of was and that has been going for several years although they're basically people. being bailed out during the economic crisis. and. began asking why. i was not bailed out there was a tipping point i'm going to pull over some of the movement connecting it with the issues facing americans which i think is important for the movement's success so i think it's good that they're connecting it with the issues but what's the problem is that the main fairly. i am not sure.

sustainable they have to move on to concrete actions and also they have to. within. that they use into account still ahead this hour is the return of our president or this week or harvest finds out of passers by are fed up with political correctness. we've got thing in england comedians have been complicit with this it's been carried overboard people were crazy would be having to worry about every word they say should we censor every word that comes out of our mouths more of what people think in just a few minutes. the financial woes of america europe investors are making a sharp turn to the east where china keeps on rising in the ranks on the global economic stage. however is not being met with enthusiasm in the u.s.

are. you sarah. ways i'm not the point you the way it's jeremy about not maybe was old soon we hung up the pants. leg but look here is old geezer i think. it's time to process. 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 raid 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 happy 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 chibi 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 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's the world changing those who like the fact the fact that like china's economy is modernizing. isn't theories and why our country is going poorly right now. and so it's maybe just

a straw man when. presidential candidates bring it up but they get in the business since there can only say it's most countries to just work with china as any other country so yeah i don't know where the fee 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 go west to see how they deal with reporting from washington and i can set up r.c. dr caroline hellman from occidental college in los angeles says that 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 so when 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 to talk of proceeds 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 well you can find more on china on our website at archie dot com there you'll also find out how the occupy wall street demonstrations in the u.s. turned into performance art. new york police detained it. while nearby accomplice dressed as a mad dog attempted to try to drown the beast's attention i don't mind see how this fight and also. a huge test for polish police ahead of the upcoming year old championships as hundreds of football hooligans run right find out oh it's called.

political correctness gone too far or are finished better known as the resident hits the streets of the big apple to find out. a recent poll indicated that people are starting to feel like political correctness is having a negative affect them society how do you feel about it this week let's talk about that it's been carried overboard. people were getting a little crazy with being having to worry about every word they say whether it's actually politically correct or not 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 thing in england where comedians have been holed up in political correctness so 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 accosting if you're talking smelly people then yeah the 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 cause here 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 or you'd rather be offended in at least at 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 a suspected islamist militant five police officers were among those shot by the gunman in the southern city of shiraz he also killed and the owner and a customer of a stolen hijacked a car reports say the attacker then returned to his home where he collected a rocket launcher and fired on a security forces building authorities say the gunman blew himself up once upon a rifle just. now for some more headlines and news from around the world. iran has been rocked by a powerful explosion at an emulation 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 militia facilities supplies the country's revolutionary guard the blasts were ruled accidental but the exact cause remains unclear at. 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 hit by a devastating tsunami in march it was the world's worst nuclear crisis since the turn over. the turkish prime minister has visited the region of vanya which has been struck by to earth breaks in a matter of weeks the latest on the month wednesday claimed the lives of more than thirty people the body of a japanese aid worker has been returned home he was rescued alive from the rubble but died later in the hospital two journalists were also among those killed and

they have 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 you. we are on the black sea coast in the south 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 are keen as tom burton 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 of be 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 is 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 of travel 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 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 cured we

have a three star 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 bathing in a black sea levels of the growing status of water sports that i would be joining them anytime soon. and neither would i be taking part in an 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 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 yet 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 the money that's the problem for most kitesurfing now however it's on the way to joining the list of the limbic sports and that raises the profile of what is still a fledgling perceived in russia. or 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 watson r.t. . not be back with a recap of our top stories in just a few minutes i'm going. to

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