and. the latest news on the week's top stories on our t.v. asia pacific specific the apec summit the region's keep ours agree to start work on a free trade zone that could ultimately revolutionize relations but that's not all . the russian and american presidents hold tops on the sidelines of the apec summit in hawaii the focus missile defense and russia's future at the w t o we'll bring you all the latest from honolulu just ahead in the program. rewriting history in europe new government being formed and prime ministers replaced in greece and italy as both nations raced to pull back from the financial. plus a un report claims iran might be seeking to obtain

a nuclear weapon but the allegation says a us about smear campaign. the headlines of today and over this week you're watching the weekly with me. the creation of a landmark free trade zone dominated told so this is apec summit which brings together the leaders of asian and pacific rim countries iraq obama hosted the get together in hawaii with dmitri medvedev to try to over some pretty hot topics. reports. the apec summit of course as we know gathers twenty one economies that make up the asia pacific reserve region and this is where leaders take the opportunity to focus on all sorts of ways to boost trade between the countries we 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 at home a little gathering for. a package i'm eating if you will and you have been protesting everything from open and free trade to globalization for the protesters have been seen as sort of a continuation of protests going on in fact throughout the united states of the world the so-called occupy wall street movements 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 are 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. russia has been interested in 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 two open a very important element such

a place today the us president barack obama said that he would start working with the u.s. congress to try to close 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 thousand nine hundred eighty 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 but the international community working with the countries. he's honest you're going to reporting right there what are those side talks to be a summit of the finishing touches on the rushers accession to the world trade organization that is expected to happen next year exports have long been debating whether membership will help diversify and strengthen the russian economy so well to use your cars that are going to have been outraged on the implications for us. personal faith public membership not just something they'll read about in the news

but it would mean full of crisis removing trade barriers between states increases competition rises over the fortitude and the massive companies full support of the fight for the for not it's good enough. for workers so these metallurgical companies don't look like a win win situation their most recent project is the north stream pipeline should then for international markets will face very little competition. and this is all saying much the largest wanting russia south producing promise to russia is what the book is for months ahead and workers who can spot. the hat of the company has a rather different childhood to that of the w t o chile. oil and gas will be in the moment even without entering the well some good thing because the middle of her. head would call chu will be among the hardest hit sectors but experts say that

a mass to want to mount an industry will be the one to undergo most stuff he will. the traveled more to john up the bus was rescued from the brink of death in the economic crisis of two thousand and eight but promised a person with more than one billion dollars in loans cash and guarantees. i guess is the government's favorite child but not all car makers in russia are cherished this used to be a driving want of must reach open the 1930's most successful years what the fifty's and sixty's are hundreds of thousands of my screech cars flooded the soviet and foreign markets after the collapse of the soviet union last creature was in desperate need of money but the government could not afford to loss making copper and must reach was. the only way to avoid the collapse again and now the

industrial giant it's saying is to use the transition period of joining the w two was closely entreats the w.t. doesn't mean you instantly have to drop all tires on complying straight away transit so-called transition period roughly seven years or so protectionist measures will apply for a number of sensitive industries which employ millions of people such as every culture timber and car making but at a certain point the states industrial the candles have to let go of the times and work on their own two feet 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 t. scale. well it's so good of you to join us on this sunday coming up for you this ethnic tensions on the rise in the fall of one fierce serb resistance in kosovo

after fresh clashes result in death and injury. you're watching the weekly here on r.t. in italy the race is on to form a new caretaker government to pull the country back from a financial abyss and this follows the resignation of silvio berlusconi who stepped down on saturday having ruled the country's prime minister for seventeen years and use it was the party was met with cheers and street festivities in central rome a former e.u. commissioner now. it's considered a top contender to replace by the scottish new government will be tasked with implementing an austerity package totaling of almost sixty billion euros it's aimed at tackling the nation's tiring debt our correspondent in the region is sara for us . that astaire's he lot finally sells silvio berlusconi state and he stepped down as prime minister of the country now for better or worse he was certainly a character is against the a massive change and now that he's resigned from that post optimism certainly for

a future what the future will be right now remains uncertain it will be the caretaker government is going to be put in place the man has been paid for the top spot is very well respected economists here in the country mary months a piece of for me he commissioned piece the year crowd who knows the system inside and out the killings of brussels this certainly a question mark a for whether he's going to have the democratic legitimacy that is needed to gain public support of course and an elected government taking the race does raise a lot of questions these are just the initial steps there was a short term measure certainly going to be some way to standing that panic that we saw at the beginning of the week and to calming somewhat the fear that if he was literally about to be sucked into that spiral 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 the 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. was in the virus speaking to see in the town that he was 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 how is 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 the economic interests stagnation and kickstarting that is going to be a major challenge and a big party but it's 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. when i was the third largest economy in the eurozone

italy has become the latest threat to the stability of the european union now the chief economic commentator of the british newspaper the independent says the main priority now is to keep the bloc intact you can sort of see your way through just with the new good technocratic competent government in italy you can sort of see your way through just for them getting by but it's kind of cut clutching at straws is the big thing is to preserve the euro. not to preserve the euro if the euro has to go and it's better that it should go. when i say go that could be something called the euro which just applies to germany and the neighboring nations maybe france maybe for which and that excludes italy and spain portugal and all the rest but it's difficult to do that but the bigger game is keeping something called

the european union together even if it has to be a two speed europe it is not impossible that the the euro could be finished by easter. meantime over in greece a new coalition government has been sworn in out of the prime minister george papandreou was forced to quit over his handling of the country's debt crisis and the new prime minister. former vice president of the european central bank went out had a new government and the coalition will have to approve a recent. study of the country away from bankruptcy. well coming your way in the program here on our. russian interplanetary craft carrying tons of highly toxic fuel malfunctions during the flight our report on the possible consequences coming your way soon. over in london to russian billionaires are going head to head exiled tycoon boris berezovsky and chelsea football club owner roman abramovich locked in what's said to be the most expensive private court case

britain has ever seen our correspondent michael bennett has been monitoring the hearing. it's been dubbed the battle of the oligarchs in one corner is an easter egg estimated well fifteen billion assets for your child's a football club and a french chateau in the other corner is to be 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. which is rise to riches is a story precious few knew until now his time in the witness stand has lifted the need on a mike in the shadows he reveals how some of his company's employed primarily disabled staff lending a lucrative thirty percent tax breaks and he came clean on the piles of cash he paid for protection and 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 it wants to i think

it was in the morning with the only difference being the rattler peel and he is very good preserves a very image and he doesn't really come across aggressively that we say anything at all he wants to be respectful and you know suddenly we're all made aware of the rather sort of see the origins of his wealth it's a third of that wealth that he claims is 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 significator in the ninety's mr perez also he claims he was blackmailed into selling his stake at a fraction of it's 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 here as for the legal fees mr abbott is a reality be sixteen million dollars a barrel subsidies lawyers have their work cut out there on

a no win no fee basis the pair used to be close to. 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 denying they were business partners in fact claim this case rides on but there's no concrete evidence after all this was ninety's russia none of the deals were written down five weeks in and i've counted a cost of nine billionaires five russian one one is becky paul 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 huge oil strange deals because of me things that maybe never happened the whole thing's extraordinarily bizarre and 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 his he's billions in a complex web of sure 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 artsy london . and money matters are certainly a talking point in the british capital this week with thousands of people taking to the streets of central london but they are protesting against a huge rise in university tuition fees that will see a tripling of the cost of education by the report coming your way next hour here on . our sixty minutes past the hour here in moscow a report by the un's atomic watchdog has heightened fears this week that iran could be developing a nuclear weapon israel is now calling on the international community to act despite being an undeclared nuclear power itself but russia is stressing the need for caution over what appears to be an inconclusive report iran's brushing the allegations aside blaming the u.s.

for putting pressure on the international atomic energy agency iranian or makers and are calling for a review. other countries cooperation with that agency western leaders have come down hard on tehran over the claims made in the report a london based political analyst chris bambery thinks they're all looking at the wrong way. i'm still waiting to hear the british threatening strong measures against israel who just the other week tested a boys think missile capable of carrying nuclear warheads israel has. nuclear program which was kept secret we know the britain and france many years ago provided you really really really into for that for that program in c. in secret meanwhile israel has also carried out an operation using a little air base and then you are seeing it is warplanes can go there and come back in preparation for an attack around wind needs or is a worry israel's use its base in sardinia for this purpose i don't know perhaps

william he can explain but instead we have the power which is used weapons america britain which is currently replacing its nuclear weapons. and israel with its a legal and the secret nuclear program and a country which is said it would use nuclear weapons if it was facing defeat in a war with one of its arab states ganging up against iran and i think the danger is that if iran is not creating nuclear weapons it may well do saw in response to the continuing war drums in western capitals and. tel aviv but you're watching the weekly here on r.t. let's do a quick course and check out some other stories from around the globe this hour the leader of russia's also talks church a patriarch kirill has begun a peacemaking visit to syria for talks with president president assad he called on syrians to build an open peaceful society and reinforce national unity to avoid a civil war the visit came as the ira be decided to suspend the country until

a peace plan is brought in the organization announced the move. emergency session in egypt receiving full approval from the leaders of the e.u. and us by the bank thousands of pro-government supporters in syria who rallied and stormed several foreign consulates in response. a powerful blast has killed six people in northwest pakistan a bomb was placed in a car left unattended in the province near the afghan border no one has claimed responsibility for the blast but officials are blaming previous violence in the area on the taliban and its alarmist militants now this comes just a day after a dozen people guide and gunfight and mortar attack in the same region. the crippled fukushima nuclear plant in japan has opened its doors to journalists for the first time in eight months i reporters had to wear protective suits and marks before being allowed in by the site suffered a series of meltdowns and explosions after being hit by the country's devastating

earthquake and tsunami in march the plant and the surrounding area still remain highly radioactive. brazilian police are carrying out a massive operation to clear out rio de janeiro's the largest slum of drug gangs are the shanty town controlled in part by local criminal groups is officially home to seventy thousand people some estimates say the real figure is much higher the project is aimed at cutting crime in the city you head of the two thousand and fourteen football world cup and the olympics of two thousand and sixteen. e.u. police are investigating ethnic clashes in northern parts of which resulted in a serbian man's death and at least two injuries late on wednesday fresh violence came a snakelike peacekeepers deployed in the area fired tear gas and ethnic serbs peacekeeper say it was an attempt to seize one of their barricades set up months ago in an ongoing dispute on the place of a border and u.n.

secretary general says the tension has been caused by cause of those attempts to extend its control over border crossings in the dominated area a political analyst alexander babiche believes there's a bigger picture behind nato his actions they've been doing it for years now and they've broken their mandate actually they're doing the job of being in control government and prishtina they're doing it all can we in spite of their mandate from the un which is supposed to be a peacekeeping mandate to keep to the warring sides separated this is an aggressive show of force so you are acting like an occupier instead of peacekeepers and they are behind the crisis in greece they're behind the crisis in iran we're seeing right now is the sowing of the new world this order and serbia's one of the flashpoints. for months in the region having putting up barricades as part of that struggle with the cause of our or thora trees and nato forces and i think it's just you know delves deeper into the causes of the resistance. that was.

perhaps not an obvious venue for a wedding but this serbian couple living in northern ca civil decided to get married at the barricades in meter it's a local call of duty of the together here and there were groups who went and then it's. just. this sort of barricades in northern kosovo have been standing for several months now for those who built them they're 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 which splits the town and the soviet and albanian parts it was called the bridge of friendship and was meant to symbolize that that 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's

a have become the town's main gathering spot tensions are still running high just a few kilometers. for every sound off that will decay for troops manage to demolish serbs built two piles there are times when the two procedures take place a multimedia sneak you can remember our. alibi and. people like you see. the. serbs say they have no choice but to continue barricading themselves in they believe all benny and so would not hesitate to wipe them off their land forcefully help they believe by k. for troops despite constant clashes with the nato contingent and political pressure from belgrade the course of the serbs have become accustomed to living this cage they have built for themselves. but it was hard at first when we run out of food and petrol but we serbs are people who used to improvise. finding

a way out we build alternative routes through the mountains so now we can again receive supplies we've prevented a humanitarian catastrophe. the orthodox priest 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. kosovo has seen different hard times it's even been my birds turkey ones but series with stupid old heart tests of times and every one and nature of its own merits this land is the cradle of culture and state that. another deadlock in this balkan melting pot continues well great is still unwilling to resume negotiations with pristina which could put paid to this 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 ski r.t. reporting from cause of commuters in kosovo. now at twenty five minutes past the hour here in moscow well do you remember that you can see that story all of our stories online as well as much more a quick glimpse now of what else you'll find on the dot com other celebrations that turned into a scrap. of independence day he was marred by fighting dozens wounded hundreds of arrested and you can see more how it happened on our web site and trying. the recipe for success find out how russia's black sea coast is making a name for itself in the world of gold making signing i get a taste of that at all it's he talks.

with us here live from moscow to technical failure affecting russia's first interplanetary mission in fifteen years i felt a huge blow to hopes of getting a better understanding of how the universe evolved there are now fears that the ten ton. probe will crash back to earth but it never reached its goal now it is time bottom now reports from the baikonur launch station. hopes were high when the phobos rocket was launched from the cosmodrome here in baikonur and kazakstan it was the first interplanetary mission russia had launched in fifteen years and there was great hopes that it would help to reveal secrets about the red planet and about how life evolves those hopes out of synch turns to fears of a potential catastrophe we've proved 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 this bogus 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 so boss is most likely heading right back down to earth it's likely that it will happen about the end of november the beginning of just sembler the predicted date given at the moment is the twenty sixth of november as earth's gravitational field slowly pulled 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 and so the chances that it will cause any harm the chance is there and that's what experts at mission control are trying to avoid . talk to someone right there what our special report i just had now looking at the how firefighters in the u.s. are having to double dip was first a dose of full of i'll be back with the headlines in just a moment. well

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