was of asian and pacific rim countries were obama hosted the get together in hawaii met up with dmitri medvedev to china over some pretty hot topics. now reports. apec summit of course as we know gathers twenty one economies that make up the asia pacific 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 or 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 a. pack needing if you will and 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 in fact 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 the course of today's talks was russia's future of the world trade organization because as me. no 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 job 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 us 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 thousand nine hundred three and even though it has been under moratorium it's definitely been causing a little friction between russia and the west 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 an associate you're going

to reporting right there one of those side talks of the apec summit put the finishing touches on rushers accession to the world trade organization that is expected to happen next year but it's have long been debating whether membership will help diversify and strengthen the russian economy so that you can put in to open up breaks down the implications for us. the recent public membership not just something they'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 fold weaker with foreign markets building up. the workers of these metallurgical companies don't look like a win win situation their most recent project is a north stream five should then for international markets will face very little competition. and this is a must see much longer wanted russia south producing promise to russia it's good to

go to school for months ahead and workers who can spawn. but the head of the company has a rather different move to that of the w t o cheerleader for the oil and gas will be in demand even without entering the. well. you're getting this goes the middle of. a group called chu will be among the hardest hit sectors but experts say the domestic automotive industry will be the one time to go most up here with. the troubled mortgage john up the vase 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. about 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 muscovy each chorus flooded the soviet and foreign markets after the collapse of the soviet union mass creature was in desperate need of money but the government could not have or tools making copies and must creation. crossed out. the only way to avoid the collapse again and now the industrial john c. is to use the transition period after joining the w t o y's firstly entry to the w.t. doesn't mean you instantly have to drop all customs and comply straight away there's a 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 a group called timber and car making but at a certain point the state's industrial dependence will have to let go of it 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 exceeding the grand children aren't. but it's good of you to join us on this sunday are coming up ethnic tensions on the rise of unfair service in some kosovo after fresh clashes result in death and injury. and 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 as follows the resignation of silvio berlusconi has stepped down on saturday having ruled the country as prime minister for seventeen years and years of his departure was met with cheers and street festivities in central rome a former e.u. commissioner now. it's considered a top contender to replace palace got

a new government will be tasked with implementing an austerity package totaling almost sixty billion euros it's aimed at tackling the nation's towering debt our correspondent in the region is terrified. that a stairs he will finally say oh it's soviet bellus gagne's fate and he stepped down as prime minister of the country now is it better all was. he was certainly a character is going to be a massive change now that he's resigned from the post optimism certainly for a feature of 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 to the top spot is a very well respected economist here in the country mary months a piece of former he commission he's a hero crowd he knows the system inside and out 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 and an elected government taking the reins

does raise a lot of questions these are just the initial steps and was is 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 it's the was literally about to be sucked into that spout 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 what has a 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 done itself and those in the virally speaking to people in the town that he 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 how 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 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. are you sorry for reporting right one as 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 initially you can sort of see your way through just for them getting by but it's kind of cut clutching at straws the big thing is to preserve the european union not

to preserve the euro if the euro has to go that it's better that it should go and maybe when i say go that could be something called the euro which just applies to germany and the neighboring nations maybe france maybe three. and and excludes italy and spain portugal and all the rest of them 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. and a meantime over in greece a new coalition government has been sworn in after former prime minister george papandreou was forced to quit over his handling of the country's debt crisis and the new prime minister. a former vice president of the european central bank will now head the new government the coalition will have to approve a recent e.u. bailout package and steer the country away from bankruptcy. well coming your way in

the program here on our. craft carrying tons of highly toxic fuel functions during the flight our report on the possible consequences coming your way. over in london two russian billionaires are going head to head exiled tycoon boris berezovsky and chelsea football club owner. locked in what's said to be the most expensive private court case britain has ever seen our correspondent dr bennett has been monitoring the hearing. it's been dubbed the battle of the oligarchs in one corner is mr a estimated wealth fifteen billion assets for your a football club and a french chateau in the other corner mr b. 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 turn in the witness stand has lifted the

need on a life 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 alimony and wars 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 warmth you know the only difference between a rotten people and here is p.r. has been very good preserves the very image he doesn't really come across aggressively that will be say anything at all he wants to go respectable and suddenly we're always aware 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 adam over it for six and a half billion dollars they set up the oil company sip left together in the

ninety's just about as 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 abbott 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 denying they were ever business partners it's that clay in 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 billionaires five russian one cast

one is becky ball 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 recordings of meetings that maybe never happened the whole thing's extraordinarily bizarre you try and piece 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 b.'s lawyer is mr a has hidden his billions in a complex web of offshore 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 they are protesting against a huge rise in university tuition fees that will see a tripling of the cost of education but the report coming your way next hour here

on our. hour sixteen 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 and 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 lawmakers are now calling for a review. the country's cooperation with that agency western leaders have come down hard on terror on over the claims made in the report but 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 the missile capable of carrying nuclear warheads israel has

a we go nuclear program which was kept secret we know the britain and france many years ago provided you really in the original really into for that for that program in c. in secret meanwhile israel has also carried out an operation using an air base and then you're. seeing if warplanes can go in there and come back in preparation for an attack on iran wind needs or is allowing 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 trident and israel with its illegal 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 that route is not creating nuclear weapons it may well do saw in response

to the continuing war drums been breached in western capitals and. tel aviv. as 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 orthodox church of 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 of the visit came as the arab league decided to suspend the country until a peace plan is brought in the organization announced the move out and. session in egypt receiving full approval from the leaders of the e.u. and us by the move 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 the 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 have blamed previous violence in the

area on the taliban and islamist militants and this comes just a day after a dozen people died in a 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 before being allowed in other sites 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 rio de janeiro's largest slum of drug gangs. shanty town controlled in parts while local criminal groups is officially home to seventy thousand people though some estimates say the real figure is much higher the project is aimed at cutting crime in the city ahead 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 concert which resulted in a serbian man's death and at least two injuries late on wednesday fresh violence came as nato peacekeepers deployed in the area fired tear gas and ethnic peacekeepers say it was an attempt to seize one of their barricades set up months ago in an ongoing dispute on the heels of a border the u.n. secretary general says the tension has been caused by because of his attempts to extend its control over border crossings in the dominated area a political analyst alexander 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 the albanian control government to prishtina and they're doing it openly 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 for syria they're acting like an occupier he said of the peacekeepers they're behind the crisis in greece they're behind the crisis in iran we're seeing right now is the sawing of the new world disorder and serbia is one of the flashpoints. and for months now in the region having putting up barricades as part of that struggle with the cause of forty's and nato peacekeeping forces. delve deeper into the causes of the resistance. that. 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 me to. get them to be others here in does no do it who would invent. this sort of 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 which splits the town and 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. for every sound to call the k. four troops managed to demolish serbs built two piles there are times when the two pro sisters take place simultaneously. and. people like you see. the. serbs say they have

no choice but to continue barricading themselves 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 the serbs. 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. kosovo has seen different hard times even be in my bed turkey ones but terry's with stude all 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 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. r.t. reporting from costs. in kosovo. now at twenty five minutes past the hour here in moscow to remember that you can see that story all of our stories online as well as much much more. independence day. by dozens hundreds arrested you can see how it happened on our website.

find out how russia's black sea coast is making a name for it so. i'm going to taste of that. dog. with you live from moscow now a technical failure affecting russia's first interplanetary mission in fifteen years has dealt 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 having never reached its goal. reports from the launch station. hopes were high when the phobos rocket was launched from the cosmodrome here in baikonur in 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 evolved those hopes out of synch turned to fears of a potential catastrophe the boost 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 beginning of december the predicted 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 equipment on board the chances of it landing on a populated area are very small and and so are 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. right there on a special report i just had now looking at the how firefighters in the us are having to double dip was first day to us before they all be back with the headlines in just a moment. sunny

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