of the pacific rim are meeting under hawaii's tropical 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 u.s. a chance to hold talks or doesn't associate 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 of 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 of 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 as we. 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 twenty 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 jacksons banneker 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 should be good trade relations not just for russia in the united states but the international community working with the countries so russia's access to the w t o was central to discussions on the last day of the apec summit after almost twenty years of thorny negotiations and geneva commission finalized terms for a long awaited membership because we're going to try to looks at what will change in russia's economy once it finally joins the club. the person on the street membership will not be just something we'll read about in the news but it will mean lower prices removing trade barriers between states increases competition prices of imported goods and domestic companies also grow quicker with foreign markets opening up. for workers of this 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 raw

so much the largest plant in russia's south producing harvested russia it's called the book is full four months ahead and workers who can spawn it. but the head of the company has a rather different outlook to that of the w t o cheerleaders with oil and gas will be in demand even without entering the job. and with 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 bus was rescued from the brink of death in the economic crisis of two thousand and eight by prime minister putin with more than one billion dollars in loans cash and guarantees. of the us is the government's

favorite child but not all car makers in russia are as 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 and must creature. crossed out. the only way to avoid the collapse again and now the industrial john c. is to use the transition period of joining the w. firstly entry to the w. doesn't mean you instantly have to drop all customs and comply straight away the transit so-called transition period roughly seven. protectionist measures will apply for a number of sensitive industries which employ millions of people such as

a group called timber and calm but at a certain point the state's industrial dependents will have to live. and work on their own to feed in the world outside 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 you. and coming up later in the program haiti up you were up there with nordstrom pipeline is turn starting the flow of russian gas straight to the market. and thousands of students march across central london furious over education cuts and a tripling of tuition fees. well it's the end of an era in italy as the country's controversial and charismatic prime minister silvio berlusconi steps down that's out of the lower house of parliament gave its final approval to vast a new austerity package which was

a precondition for his resignation the pm see though won't remain vacant for long with four worry you official mario monti looking set to take over the public reaction so far has been mixed with some celebrating there as tony's fall while others are wary of the future of correspondent a major way sarah ferguson explains. that as stairs he'll finally say it was a soviet 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 is that a caretaker government is going to be put in place the man is being paid for the top spot is a very well respected economist here in the country mary muncie he's the former commissioner he's a euro crowd he knows the system inside and a good links 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 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 stemming that panic that we saw at the beginning of the week and to coming some more it's the fear that it's the was literally about to be sucked into that that's that we've seen a country like greece. 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 in the virally speaking to people in the town there who were holding protests 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 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 the country has been suffering under 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 credibility that's been lost in recent times because without the public support these reforms a simply not going to work. so for us reporting there one other embattled country greece has received a new coalition cabinet and prime minister after the previous premier george bush was forced to quit over his handling of the debt crisis the new fianna lucas papademos who's a former vice president of the european central bank says the priority will be to keep greece in the euro zone the new coalition government will also have to secure

a fresh portion of an otherwise athens warns it will go bankrupt within weeks. western europeans can be more at ease this winter whether 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 belarus bushell watched as president and european partners went with the flow in germany. the wheel of fortune turns in europe's favor e.u. 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 brings additional capacity that brings a very important additional security off to war with him and he's very travelled 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 they said it was impossible that it's happened think experts is down to russian engineering brilliance. with technical. design off the pipeline which is i think the best pipeline we have. guests from what about nordstrom's first line who started successfully and the second goes operational in twenty twelve together they can he twenty six million homes a year but more is needed i guess use has jumped even through the current e.u. debt crisis and supply can't keep up with predicted demand gazprom is given the

strongest him so far the third line could also be built will mean that if i will add all the capacity of existing against your show by plenty still not enough expansion or not steady what will be discussed but is so thin some even call this project the first step that could take russia into the e.u. single market there are those who hold nord stream will make the two sides friendly . we are trying to bring russia closer to europe integrate europe and russia into a common energy space and if this space will be successful then we can think about creating. economic space free trade zone as the first guest began to float optimistically. the next few months will show is really the still to renew year of between the e.u. would just another point drink. tea in germany. the republic

of south a city in the north caucuses votes for a new president the sunday the new leader won't have an easy job as a republic still recovering from a devastating war with georgia three years ago the current president can't stand for election as he has already served two consecutive terms and that makes the race a tough one as artie's medina cautionary discover it. this is the first election for a decade not to feature the current leader of south ossetia and two of the. and many have already cool to the upcoming vote one of the most unpredictable because of the sheer number of people eager to get their hands of the reins of power seventeen candidates were sent to battle for the top job but just a couple of days before the election that figure dropped to eleven when some hopefuls decided to join forces feeling they had a better chance fighting together than fighting. words on the streets of south as such because the current ministers from urgency situations and that of as favorite

. we need to start from the development of our region the development of the infrastructure economy and terrorism. indeed the number one challenge is to rebuild the devastated region following the war with georgia three years ago the capital of south the city is he involved still looks like more of a construction site than a home to around thirty thousand people but other candidates feel there is something far more important than houses that need solid foundations. but the main problems are not damaged buildings and roads but mostly the lack of unity among the people of our republic we don't feel like we are one nation but as always they are resilient people here are putting their hopes in the future. i belong to the future president to finish what the former one started to finish the construction of all the south a certain needs economic development that's the first thing that should be done.

with so many candidates standing the need for a second round runoff is the only thing that looks certain about this election my question are you see reporting from south side here. well i had to r.t. dot com for more stories and eye catching videos and here's a taste of what's online right now. daily bloodshed in the kashmir conflict ruled by india by a claim by neighboring pakistan and leaving the women as the silent sufferers and male dominated society. russia's black sea coast is attracting thousands of thrill seekers to ride the waves of web surfing becoming increasingly popular in the country for more head to our dot com. the un atomic watchdog has released satellite images and letters this week that it says backs up its report suggesting iran is secretly developing nuclear weapons the us secretary of state hillary clinton has called on tehran to answer the questions the report poses

claiming it has a long history of deception by iran's chief and boy to the i.a.e.a. dismissed the agency's findings saying the material was fabricated by the u.s. and its allies he told r.t. that his country is transparent as any can be dismissing the latest report as politicized. these two parties not profession. with political motivation and under political pressure by the u.s. and couple of the western countries this report has fifteen pages of the allegations and the materials which were handed over only last week saying the company should manage the temp ages of the report of director general which says that all activities including a retirement are continuously on there to save. the only second part which is the n.h.s. is above the american allegation the important thing is that we are party to n.p.t.

all activities are on the. even of. short unannounced inspections this is great months ago invited the pretty director john to even visit the. richmond ten you give me any example that any respect or being permitted to any. other part of the war. thousands of students are marched across central london this week protesting at a dramatic increase in tuition fees and cuts to public spending furious demonstrators carried banners and chanted slogans while some four thousand policemen were deployed along their route from the university of london to the city's financial district students have planned to a link up with and take corporate occupy protests by the blog by riot police officers had warned that anyone involved in criminal activity could be surrounded and even shot at with a rubber bullets almost a year ago similar protests in the heart of the british capital the sanity into

violence of the protestors say people have a right to speak out. people have a sense of political views and i was under the impression that that was allowed in this country. what the announcement that was my incredibly provocative announcement that was made that there's going to be rubber bullets in preparation for this demonstration is absolutely right i mean if anything it's likely to increase the level of tension and increase the the level of distrust and the level of fear actually of the police it would have been and they have done that and that's a terrible terrible thing no one in their right mind is about trying to keep the dyke home the police the only role the police should be playing is to facilitate the rights to peaceful protests. police are investigating ethnic clashes in northern ca so after a serb man died and two others were injured in attacks late on wednesday it comes as nato k. four peacekeepers fired tear gas at ethnic serbs while trying to seize one of

their barricades set up months ago in an ongoing dispute on the serb cost of a border the u.n. secretary general says the tension has been caused by a possible stance control over border crossings in the serb dominated area are just like delve deeper into the causes behind the resistance. that. that. perhaps not an old this venue for a wedding but this serbian couple living in northern ca civil decided to get married at the barricades and. to cool off we're going to be others here and there were two who were in dance. dresses. the star barricades in northern kosovo 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

that it's there which splits the town into an albanian parts it was called the bridge of friendship and 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 off still the case for troops managed to demolish serbs built two hundred miles there are times when the two pro sisters take place and tenuously. them. and. people like you see. the. 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 because civil servants 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 in finding a way out. we've built alternative routes through the mountains so now we can again receive supplies we've 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. or the close of a has seen different hard times it's even been a lie but turkey ones but series with stewed all heart tests of times and everyone and made sure of it so now it's this land is the cradle of it's a 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 serve 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 let's see russia r.t. reporting from cost. in kosovo. also i have for you the sour and unwelcome return a russian probe with tons of highly toxic fuel on board crashed back to earth if scientists don't manage to regain control of the details in a few moments. now for some other stories making headlines across the world 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 delusion by a devastating tsunami in march caused by an earthquake hundreds of square miles of the surrounding area were turned into a no man's land. almost ten thousand activists gathered to the south korean capital seoul to demonstrate against a free trade agreement with the u.s. say the treaty would in danger of the country's economy and ruin their livelihoods the country's ruling an opposition parties have so far failed to agree on the deal even though it was approved by the u.s. congress last month. the arab league voted to use a span syria from your own ization until a peace plan is implemented to stop bloodshed their member states have also been urged to withdraw their ambassadors from damascus and use economic and political sanctions the decision which came at an emergency session in egypt has already received the e.u.'s full backing and it was praised by u.s.

president barack obama. iran has been rocked by a powerful explosion at an ammunition depo west of the capital to run at least seventeen people were killed and over a dozen wounded two consecutive blasts ripped through the site shattering windows in nearby buildings facilities supplies the country's revolutionary guard explosions were said to be accidental but the exact cause remains unclear. russian space x. ports are battling to fix a technical failure on board an interplanetary station that was heading to the martian move phobos the aim of the pro was to get a better knowledge of how the universe evolved but there are fears the vehicle could crash back to earth having never reached its go on board is at the by can relaunch 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 a potential catastrophe the stage of the rocket went ok it went off into the overt of earth but then the problem started the second stage was supposed to commence with the cruise rockets firing that would carry the phobos spacecraft on its 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 earth it's likely that it will happen about the end of november the beginning of december the predicted date given at the moment is the twenty sixth of november as earth's gravitational field slowly pulls 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 equipment on board the chances of it landing on a populated area of very small and the chances that it will cause any harm but the chance is there and that's what experts at mission control are trying to avoid. dumbarton reporting their own reasons up to date and their own cap of the week's top stories is coming your way shortly.

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welcome back you're with r t here is a look at the day's top stories and a review of the week political and economic having waves of the pacific or imbalance to prevent europe's debt crisis from spreading the presidents of russia

and the u.s. meet on the sidelines of the apec summit to discuss missile the fans syria and russia's future in the w t o. two countries watch their governments fall at the height of the death crisis with italy's prime minister silvio berlusconi resigning in greece where in a new head of cabbage at. the u.n. atomic watchdog released a satellite images and letters which allegedly prove iran could be building a bomb tehran says the accusations are fabricated and politicized. and police investigate fresh clashes in northern possible after nato peacekeepers fired tear gas. at a disputed border crossing. so was a north stream gas and ring you up for the first time we sat down was a man who headed the ambitious project germany's former chancellor at the beginning .