remained vacant for long though with veteran mario monti looking 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 sarah ferguson has the details. that are stairs he will finally say oh sylvia berlusconi's fate 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 a future who bought their 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 for the top spot is very well respected economists here in the country mary month say he's the former commissioner he's a year and he knows the system inside and a good links to 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 and was is a short term measure certainly they're going to go some way to stemming that panic that we saw at the beginning of the week and to coming some more it's the fear that it was literally about to be sucked into that spiral that we've seen countries like greece be sucked into it but of course 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 in those environments 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 was government spending a waste of taxpayers' money and really what they. it's saying with very clear is

that whatever happens now and whoever takes power is that they're 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 and really now that's where the focus is turning to and the country is and has been suffering thing is. 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 regaining public trust and the credibility that's been lost in recent times because without the public support these reforms a simply not going to. sara first reporting there from. 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 do it. well 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 events their elected governments the difficult democratic machinery to be used simply to take out a government that's been democratically elected and what we've seen to be in the case i think of greece and italy we've seen the being able to achieve normal democratic means have not been able to do and that is to put those countries to get the governments they need at this particular time now i don't attach any value judgement to that it's merely an observation that in these circumstances we've seen. rather more effectively than ordinary democracy

and coming up in just a few minutes. quality occupy movement blossoms in germany as thousands of protesters of flood the political and financial capitals of the country demanding the government. banking green. and china's booming economy isn't always met with open arms with 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 use of 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 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. of washington. it is old it 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 be typically. the peace proposal of the arab league on the gunman which are all cried affiliated entities paramilitary forces 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 also complicit in supporting an insurgency and of insurgency with but due to de stabilizing 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 wreck should which has created this this process of instability dr evil to him 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 that splays so we have to look at this in geo strategic terms the arab league does not represent the arab people at represents nato 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 that deliberations 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 annual 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 he's on starts yet you're going to brings us the latest from honolulu. delegations with high level officials from twenty one economies have finally gathered for a two day 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 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 to come we are expecting the apec 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 main threat 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 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 as well as a bunch of as well as an array of other different issues so we'll certainly be bringing our viewers all the latest when it comes to events throughout the next two days. not our only correspondent in honolulu for updates from the asia pacific

summit. meeting between. russia. quickly. with almost twenty thousand people protesting in berlin. protesters.

solidarity. movement has also made significant steps in. support of major political. believes that. 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 and europe now because of the way international competition is organized to germany is a very 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 they agree with the 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 ended will earlier we spoke to anatoly carlin founder of the sublime oblivion blog he thinks of the occupy movement should work out a better strategy. it is based on a of was the one that has been going for several years all that basically. they had these big banks being bailed out during the economic crisis. and. basically began asking why. was i not

bailed out there was a tipping point and that 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 to issues but what's a problem is the fund the main a more. organized. i am not sure that this model is sustainable they have to move on through concrete actions and also they have to. play. within mainstream politics that they use into account. still ahead this hour is the return of our new york president or this week or hard to find out of passers by are fed up with political correctness. and comedians are being political goodness is being carried overboard people or 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 the people in the big apple think in just a few minutes. 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 mind however is not being met with enthusiasm in the u.s. or cheese adriana you sero. ways i'm not what you always were tell me obama maybe we can see the six hundred ninety one years old she's twenty. one months of the boss and. she and sat him down to get warm and go. 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 china town to find out i don't think we have to be afraid of china but i do think that we should be concerned well i think concerned might be the right word for it and angelina isn't the only one how much twenty eleven b.b.c. poll shows that many in the west aren't exactly thrilled about china gaining more economic steam in the span of just five years negative attitudes towards china have skyrocketed with france germany italy the u.k. and the u.s. on unhappy at the thought of china nipping at their heels and for the us nowhere is that clear that in the race to the white house china is on almost every dimension 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 money i want to beat china i want to go to war with china and make america the most attractive place in the

world to do business woah woah whoa does it have to be us or them and is anybody buying it the world changing you know so like the fact the fact that like china's economy is modernizing. isn't there a 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 into an abyss . sensitive cannot make sense most countries to just work with china as any other country so yeah i don't know where the fear comes from from the us 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 us and the west to see how they deal with reporting from washington and montana said oh see dr caroline held the men from occidental college in los angeles says that washington of 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 believe 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 of perceived because then they act with impunity and i believe at various points in u.s. history we have seen the evidence of that i think having china in the mix will be very positive for social political relations where you can find more on china on our website at our two 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. nearby.

dressed as a map adorned attempt to try to drown the beasts attention to see how this fight also. polish police ahead of the upcoming euro two thousand and twelve championships as hundreds of football hooligans run right. for the scope of. political correctness gone too far 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 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 and i mean we've got a thing in england where comedians have been pulled off on political correctness where i think you just got to realize specially with comedy just loosen up you know everyone is 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 we just laugh it's funny but it just depends if like generations accosting if you're talking to people then yeah you 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 math is not a pearl. it's refreshing to see somebody like chris christie from new jersey. 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. 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. he also killed of the owner and a customer of a weapons store and 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 when i was just. now for some more headlines and news from around the world. 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 the shattering windows in nearby buildings munitions facility 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 daily huge hit by a devastating tsunami in march it was the world's worst nuclear crisis since.

the turkish prime minister has visited the region of vanya which has been struck by to earth quakes in a matter of weeks the latest on monday 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 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 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 artie's

tom barton 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 in 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 wind service of all ages bathing in the black sea cup it's evidence of the growing status of water sports but i won't be joining them any time soon. and 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. well

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 provides a good conditions for this book too. it's a difficult sport to master with many of these young riders taking years to reach this standard just 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 kites. again it's money that's the problem for most kitesurfing now however it's on the way to joining the list of the lympics sports and that raises the profile of what is still a fledgling perceived in russia. 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 surgeon blue of the black

sea told often r.t. . and i'll be back with a recap of our top stories in just a few minutes i'm going to.

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a last line of defense against. the top. asia pacific economies look to limit the fallout and prevent another global recession. the arab league suspends syria recommending a sanctions against the country in an effort to force president assad to end the deadly unrest which claimed more than three i have found someone. next our financial guru max kaiser along with his co-host stacey herbert reveal the dirty secrets of the financial world discussing the debt crisis. kaiser this is the kaiser report they wanted.