offical sun for the annual apac form the summit is touching on everything from establishing a pacific wide free trade zone to perhaps inevitably the eurozone crisis and it's given the presidents of russia and the united states a chance to hold talks or he's an associate you're going to has more from honolulu . the apec summit of course as we know gathers twenty one economies that make up the asia pacific riza region and this is where leaders take the opportunity to focus on all sorts of ways to boost trade between the countries they work out ways to make investments easier to improve the investment climate to make the economic ties more productive and this is certainly been the focus this time around as well but of course it's been hard this year for leaders to avoid the european financial crisis because this is something that's looming over the world economy something that's been very hard to avoid because it impacts all of the countries that are certainly not just europe there have been dozens of protesters here in honolulu gathering for their own anti apec meeting if you will and they have been protesting

everything from open and free trade to globalization the protesters have been seen as sort of a continuation of protests going on throughout the united states in the world the so-called occupy wall street movement and the similar issues were addressed at those rallies here in honolulu earlier today in terms of agreements one of the highlights of the day has been of course the bilateral meeting between the russian president dmitry medvedev and u.s. president barack obama during these talks they discussed very important issues that are not relevant just to russia in the united states but really most of the international community one of those issues of course is the missile defense plans of the united states as we know russia and nato agreed to work jointly on a european missile defense project in lisbon in two thousand and ten those talks however did come to sort of stalled because the united states was refusing to provide russia with legal guarantees that those projects would not cause a threat to security to russia and this is a fundamental issue for russia and at these talks the two presidents today did say

again that those issues still exist but they're going to continue working on missile defense together and try to work those issues out now another important aspect of course of today's talks was russia's future of the world trade organization because of me. no russia has been interested then being part of the group since ninety three and it has plans and it looks like russia will be joining the becoming a full fledged member of the world trade organization by the summer of two thousand and twelve and a very important element took place today the us president barack obama said that he would start working with the u.s. congress to try to call off the jackson vatican amendment this is something that's been a major issue between russia and the u.s. because this is a clause that was put in place by the u.s. congress back in one nine hundred seventy three and even though it has been under moratorium it's definitely been causing a little friction between russia and the u.s. when it comes to trade between the two countries now getting rid of this amendment

is something that certainly could really improve trade relations not just for russia in the united states the international community working with the countries . reporting there from honolulu so russia's access to the deluge here was central to discussions on the last day of the summit after almost twenty years of thorny negotiations a geneva commission to finalize terms for a long awaited membership to travel looks at what will change and russia's economy once and finally joins the club. the person on the street w. taylor membership will not be just something they'll read about in the news but it will mean flow of prices removing trade barriers between states increases competition prices of in florida goods drop and domestic companies also grow quicker with foreign markets opening up. for workers of these metallurgical company it all looks like a win win situation their most recent project is the north stream pipeline should they enter international markets will face very little competition. and this is the

last say much the largest plant in russia south producing harvested rushers it's going to book a school for months ahead and workers who conspire. but the hat of the company has a rather different outlook to that of the w t o cheerleaders with our oil and gas will be in demand even without entering the. well agricultural or some. you know the produce. and work culture will be among the hardest hit sectors but experts say the domestic automotive industry will be the one to undergo most up here with. the troubled mortgage giant up the vase was rescued from the brink of death in the economic crisis of two thousand and eight my promise to putin with more than one billion dollars in loans cash and guarantees. i think as is the government's

favorite child but not all car makers in russia are cherished this used to be a thriving. open the 1930's most successful years what the fifty's and sixty's when hundreds of thousands of my screech chorus flooded the soviet and foreign markets after the collapse of the soviet union my screech was in desperate need of money but the government could not afford to loss making copper juices and muskie she was crossed out. the only way to avoid the collapse of yet and now the industrial john expert say is to use the transition period of joining the w a y z firstly entry to the w t doesn't mean you instantly have to drop all customs and comply straight away the transit so-called transition period roughly. protectionist measures will apply for a number of sensitive industries which employ millions of people such as every

culture timber and comic but at a certain point the state's industrial dependence will have to let go of its time and work on their own two feet in the world outside it but that should be a somewhat easier place to do business with a reduction of customs tariffs and trade barriers to a more level playing field across international markets. aren't. coming up later in the program hating up here up so when the north stream pipeline is turn starting to flow russian gas in new market. and battle of the billionaires to russian tycoon to take their war all to one court and bail some dark secrets from the past. it's an open air in italy as the country's controversial and charismatic prime minister silvio berlusconi steps down that's after the lower house of parliament gave its final approval to vast new package which was

a precondition for his resignation the pm see though won't remain vacant for along with former e.u. official mario monti looking set to take over 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 for explains. that austerity law finally sells soviet 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 but what the 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 he commissioner he's a euro crowd he knows the system inside and out there are good links with 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 or an unelected government taking the reins does raise a lot of questions these are just the initial steps and was as a short term measure certainly they're going to go some way to standing that panic that we saw at the beginning of the week and to coming somewhat the fear that if he was literally about to be sucked into that that's that we've seen a countries like greece be sucked into a bit 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 then now is in virally speaking to people in the town there who were holding a protest 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 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 quizes berlusconi has been perceived as just. partying his way very carelessly to be a very critical time for the country and really know that's where the focus is turning to the country is and has been suffering is the economic social and political stagnation and kick starting that is going to be a major challenge and a big part of that is going to be regaining public trust and credibility that's been lost in recent times because without the public support these reforms a simply not going to. leo who are actually of the university of reading in britain doubts that just replacing one prime minister with another will help italy survive

the deepening crisis it's very naive to for the entire political debates. sauna i think the. very difficult time and what is required is a say a serious political debate on what kind of measure it's one to take to tackle the crisis it's not much about little school and italian people in caves should watch and decide what the placements should be rather than being done through parliamentary gimmicks i think that you should have stepped down at least one year ago and been able to sort of arrive just because the corruption and bribery in italian parliament is so widespread that these has been possible but honestly i think that's what is required is serious change and serious change just through going back to the people and asking them. to build

a new school and he should be. western europeans can be more at ease this winter with an uninterrupted flow of russian gas to keep them warm the north stream pipeline will pump fuel along the baltic sea floor and straight to e.u. customers without relying on transit countries like ukraine and bell routes are just down bushell watched us president medvedev and european partners went with the flow in germany. the wheel of fortune turns in europe's favor a year leaders hailed russia's first of a route that skirts tricky transit nations belarus and ukraine with the gas rich middle east also on stable energy chief say the project's a boon in several ways nothing nothing will bring admission and i think that's. a very important admission and security officer for with that and he's there we traveled the world. he said in a tough security to every sense of the security comes with

a hefty price tag the project cost some eight billion euro in fact nordstrom operate together was told by many top ten lists that the world's longest subsidy just route was doomed to failure. this is a pipeline they said couldn't be built it's too long too expensive and take nuclear they said it was impossible that it's happened think experts is down to russian engineering brilliance. use a technical. design off the pipeline which is i think the best pipeline we have. for gas from thought about nordstrom's first line has started successfully and the second goes operational in twenty twelve together they can heat twenty six million homes a year but more is needed gas use has jumped even through the current e.u. debt crisis and supply can't keep up with predicted demand gazprom given the strongest hint so fall that the third line could also be built will mean that if i

will add all the capacity of existing. by plan it is still not enough expansion but they will be discussed it is so thorough me even called this project the first step that could take russia into the e.u. single markets there are those who hold nordstrom will make the two sides friendly . we are. bring russia closer to europe integrate europe and russia into a common energy space and this space will be successful we can think about creating . economic free trade zone as the first guest began to flow to. the next few months. really the still to renew euro between the e.u. would be just another point dream. in germany. while you can get more on all of our stories at r.t.

dot com that's our website here's a taste of what else can find there if you go there right now protest turns performance new york police detained two clowns at new york's occupy protest while nearby very accomplished dressed as a matter door faces down the wall street ball while had on line to see how this fight ended. also a huge test for polish police ahead of the upcoming euro two thousand and twelve championship as hundreds of football fans run riot find out how the authorities called at r t dot com. they want to talk watchdog has released satellite images of letters this week that it says backs up its report suggesting iran is secretly developing nuclear weapons the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton has called on tehran to answer the questions that were poor poses claiming it has a long history of deception by iran's chief and which of the i.a.e.a. dismissed the agency's finding saying the material was fabricated by the u.s.

and its allies he told r.t. that his country is as transparent as any can be dismissing the latest reports publicized politicise rather. these reports. with political motivation and under political pressure by u.s. and couple other western countries this report has. fifteen pages of the allegations and the materials which were handed over only last week to us saying the company should read the temp pages of the report of director general which says that all activities including a retread are continuously on their to save by inspection the only second part which is the annex is about the american allegation the important thing is that we are party to and pretty all activities are on their. part and we even as of a snapshot short visit unannounced inspection this is great and we took months ago

invited departed director java e.a. to even visit the r. and d. of scientific richmond can you give me any example that any inspector being permitted to any certainty in any other part of the war. a new police are investigating ethnic clashes in northern caso after a serb man died and two others were injured in a taps late on wednesday it comes as nato came for peacekeepers fired tear gas at ethnic serbs while trying to see as one of their barricades set up months ago in an ongoing dispute on the sort of cost of war the un secretary general says the tension has been caused by casillas attempts to expand its control over the border crossing. area articulates here cesky delve deeper into the causes behind their resistance. that. perhaps not in the old this venue for a wedding but this serbian couple living in northern closeable decided to get married at the barricades and meet. people off we're going to do this here and does no do

it who would invent. dresses. this sort of barricades in northern ca civil have been standing for several months now for those who built them there are just a part of everyday life not only have the kosovo serbs isolated themselves from the case for troops but also from their unwanted neighbors this is the famous bridge in the middle of it so which splits the town and the serbian and albanian parts it was called the bridge of friendship it was meant to symbolize that the two can easily live together but the size of the barricades on the serbian part tells the whole story of how serbs are unwilling to be part of the self-proclaimed state while the cemented barricades in the middle of it so have become the town's main gathering spot tensions are still running high just a few kilometers away. for every sound of the k four troops managed to demolish serums built two piles there are times when the to post this is take place

simple tenuously. and. people like you. serbs say they have no choice but to continue barricading themselves in they believe albanians would not hesitate to wipe them off their land forcefully help they believe by k. four troops despite constant clashes with a nato contingent and political pressure from belgrade the cost of the serbs have become accustomed to living in this cage they have built for themselves. it was hard at first when we run out of food and petrol but we serbs are people who are used to improvising and finding a way out we've built alternative routes through the mountains so now we can again receive supplies we prevented a humanitarian catastrophe. the orthodox priest of the town's brand new temple sat

he has never been busier with all the people flocking in lately to pray for the well being of their families. closer to his sin different hard times even being ok my bad turkey ones but terry's with stude all tests of times and everyone and made sure of it so nice this land is the cradle of its culture and statehood. another deadlock in this balkan melting pot continues belgrade is still unwilling to resume negotiations with pristina which could put great to the standoff but while politicians clash this sort of family has little trust in diplomacy their kids may be too young to realize what it's all about and why they are being shown the barriers but there is little doubt what views they will inherit once they grow up looksee russia. reporting from costs. in kosovo. still had for you this hour here in r.t.e.

and unwelcome return a russian probe with tons of highly toxic fuel on board crashed back to earth scientists don't manage to regain control get the details in a few moments. a british court is setting forth to russia's richest to battle it out and it's no small claims six and al billion dollars stake . once the cash from amman accusing the chelsea football club owner of robbing him as i'm about reports of means britons are getting a rare glimpse into the life of a low profile billionaire. it's been dubbed the battle of the oligarchs in one corner is mr a estimated wealth fifteen billion assets for your football club and a french chateau in the other corner mr p. estimated fortune five hundred million he had to sell his yacht but he does still have his trusty stretch my back which he never fails to show off. his rise to

riches is a story precious few knew until now his turn in the witness stand has lifted the need on a mike in the shadows he revealed how some of his companies employed primarily disabled staff landing lucrative thirty percent tax breaks and he came clean on the piles of cash he paid for protection as he dived into the infamous salad minium walls of the ninety's where we now know someone was murdered every three days not exactly the clean cut image and one of britain's most loved foreign imports he did want to i think it was in the mall you know the only difference between a rotten people and here is p.r. has been very good presents a very banal image that he doesn't really come across aggressively doesn't really say anything at all he wants to go respectable and suddenly we're all of the rather sort of see the origins of his wealth it's a third of that wealth that. claims he's he's still a wanted man in russia he's suing mr and promote it for six and

a half billion dollars they set up the oil company soup left together in the ninety's just a bit as always he claims he was blackmailed into selling his stake at a fraction of its true worth a mere one point two million dollars the money here is massive the case is expected to smash the record for the u.k.'s most expensive privately funded litigation is thought to be costing eighty dollars a second in here as for the legal fees mr is rumored to be sixteen million dollars a barrel lawyers have their work cut out there on a no win no fee basis the pair used to be close miss to be. he gave his protege the all important leg up into the world of the super rich and we now know he was paid for his troubles but mr a says that was just protection money knowing they were ever business partners it's not claim this case rides on but there's no concrete evidence after all this was ninety's russia none of their deals were written down

five weeks in and i've counted the cost of nine billion as five russian one cause i want to call israeli one british the crown prince of abu dhabi is suddenly involved for transferring one point three billion dollars from one to the other not to mention future strange deals records of meetings that maybe never happened the whole thing's extraordinarily bizarre you try and place the whole thing together which becomes another difficult task because you don't know how much of this is even anyway true according to mr pease lawyers mr a has hidden his billions in a complex web of shore holdings so even if mr b. does win he'll have a difficult task extracting any money with so much at stake it's painstaking progress the battles expected to go on into the new year after bennett's artsy london. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world and iran has been rocked by a powerful explosion at and unishe and west of the capital tehran at least

seventeen people were killed and over a dozen wounded two consecutive blasts ripped through the side shattering windows nearby buildings in the nation's facilities supply is the country's revolutionary guard explosions were said to be accidental but the exact cause remains unclear. quibbled focus him a nuclear plant in japan has opened its doors to journalists for the first time in eight months reporters had to wear a fully protective clothing before being allowed in the plant suffered a series of meltdowns and explosions after being to lose by a devastating tsunami in march caused by an earthquake hundreds of. where miles and the surrounding area were turned into mans land. and now russian space experts are battling to fix technical failure on board an interplanetary station that was heading to the martian moon fall but aim of the pro was to get out better knowledge of how the universe evolved by their fears

a vehicle could crash back to earth having never reached its goal i guess dumbarton is at the baikonur launch station for us. hopes were high when the phobos rocket was launched from the cosmodrome here in baikonur in kazakstan it was the first interplanetary mission russia hundred launched in fifteen years and there was great hopes that it would help to reveal secrets about the red planet and about how life evolved those hopes have since turned to fears of the potential catastrophe that boosts stage of the rocket went ok it went off into the over it's over but then the problem started the second stage was supposed to commence with the cruise rockets firing that would carry the phobos spacecraft on a ten month voyage to the red planet they didn't fire what does this all mean now then it means that far from going to the red planet phobos is most likely heading right back down to it's likely that it will happen about the end of november the

beginning of december they predict a date given at the moment is the twenty sixth of november as earth's gravitational field slowly pulls the the spacecraft back into the atmosphere the upper atmosphere is very turbulent and that was going to throw the rocket around as it comes back but eventually it's going to have to land somewhere the hopes are that it will land somewhere in the sea the rocket is carrying about ten tons of very toxic and highly flammable fuel and there's also a small amount of radioactive material in the occur. on board the chances of it landing on a populated area are very small. the chances that it will cause any harm but the chance is there water experts in mission control are trying to avoid. dumbarton reporting there and a recap off the week's top stories coming your way. you

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limits. to some. welcome back you're watching our team here is a look at today's top stories and are a few of the we still. well an economic heavyweights of the pacific rim come together in hawaii vowing to prevent you or debt crisis from engulfing the pacific

the president of russia and the u.s. meet on the sidelines of the apec summit to discuss missile defense syria and russia's future in the w t o. two countries watched their governments fall at the height of the debt crisis with italy's prime minister silvio berlusconi resigning and greece swearing in a new cabinet but critics now suspect brussels of pulling the strings of the newly appointed and an elected official. un atomic watchdog zeroes in on iran's nuclear ambitions by releasing satellite images letters which allegedly prove the country could be building a bomb iran dismisses the findings saying our fabricated and politicize. the police investigate fresh clashes in northern ca so after nato peacekeepers fired tear gas at ethnic serbs at a disputed border crossing the un secretary general says the situation has been caused by possible tam strict standards.