onscreen. this is. the latest news on the week's top stories here on c asia pacific specific the apec summit the region's keefe powers agreed to start work on a free trade zone that could revolutionize relations but that's not all. the russian and american presidents for talks 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 governments being formed and prime ministers being replaced in debt ridden greece italy as both nations raced to pull back from financial abyss. plus a un report claims iran might be seeking to obtain

a nuclear weapon but. the allegations of the u.s. backed smear campaign. with the top stories of today this week this is the weekly with me wrong. the creation of a landmark free trade zone dominated talks at this year's apec summit which brings together the leaders of asian and pacific rim countries. hosted a get together in hawaii with dmitri medvedev to turn over some pretty hot topics. 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 and apec meeting if you will and you 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 russian leader will agree 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 forms of mental 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 as 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 dots becoming a full fledged member of the world trade organization by the summer of twenty

twelve and a very important element certain 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 thousand seven hundred 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. that are reporting right well those side talks to the apec summit put the finishing touches on russia's accession to the world trade organization that is expected to happen sometime next year experts have long been writing about the membership will actually help diversify and strengthen the russian economy i'll tell you that you're going to know it breaks down all the implications. for the person on the street w.

members should not be just something bill read about in the news but it will mean prices removing trade barriers between states increases competition prices of the murdered goods and domestic companies also grow weaker with foreign markets will clean up. the workers so these much allergic will promptly you know looks like a win win situation the most recent poll just north stream should international markets will face very little competition. and most seem much longer just want to rush through some producing harvesting rush it's not just for months and workers who can sponsor. but the head of the company has a rather different outlook to that of the w t o cheerleaders. our oil and gas will be in demand even without entering the. well agricultural tumble in with.

a group called chew will be among the farthest hit sectors but experts say the domestic automotive industry will be the one to undergo most step here with. the troubled mortgage giant up the virus was rescued from the brink of death in the economic crisis of two thousand and eight i promise to put in 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 must reach oprah in the 1930's most successful years what if he's two years and six where hundreds of thousands of my screech cars flooded the sawyer and foreign markets after the collapse of the soviet union bust creature was in desperate need of money but the government could not afford to loss making car produces and muskie to us out. the only way to avoid the collapse of

yet another industrial giant experts say is to use the transition period to joining the w g a wisely closely entreats the w.t. doesn't mean you instantly have to drop all systems turners and comply straight away there's a chance that so-called transition period roughly seventy 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 dependence will have to let go of its hands and work on their own two feet in the world outside it but that should also be a somewhat easier place to do business in limited action of customs tariffs and trade barriers to a more level playing field across international markets if you know gretchen over r t. it's here with us today so you're still to come for you i think tensions

on the rise but it's fierce resistance and cause a lot of pressure plasters resolve about injury. so nearly time has passed the hour here in moscow in italy the race is on to form a new caretaker government put the country back from a financial mess that follows the resignation of silvio berlusconi stepped down on saturday having ruled the country's prime minister for seventeen years the news of his departure was met with st christopher hughes and central rome former commissioner mario monti is considered a top contender to replace palace got a new government will be tasked with implementing an almost sixty billion euros austerity package tackling the nation's terror and our correspondent sara first is in the region. that has stairs he'll finally ceo's silvio berlusconi's fate

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 resigning from that post optimism certainly for a future what the future will be right now remains uncertain it's thought that a caretaker government is going to get in place the man is being paid for the top spot is very well respected economists here in the country. he's a former he can if he's a year he knows the system inside killings of brussels this certainly a question mark over whether he's going to have the democratic legitimacy that is needed to gain public support of course and the elected government taking the reins does raise a lot of questions these are just the initial steps and whilst as a short term measure certainly they're going to see some way to stemming that panic that we saw at the beginning of the week and succumbing some more it's the fear that it's the was literally about east. into that that's that we've seen countries

like greece be sucked into it but of course short term measures only last so long you're going to really now need to look at whether whatever 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's found itself and i was 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 the really going to want to see their politicians and those people in charge needing 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 it is going to be regaining public trust and the credibility that's

been lost in recent times because without the public support these reforms are simply not going to work. well meantime over in greece and you coalition government has been sworn in the former prime minister george papandreou was forced to quit over the handling of the country's debt crisis a new prime minister has a problem they must say 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 political analyst peter air says there's more to the deepening a european crisis than initially meets the eye. i think we have to turn the clock back to the original collapse of the world economy because this was no accident it was a very well planned exercise by the new world order who have the ability to close down any company or any country will it really doesn't matter who's in power there are people there to control in this situation the banks are involved who sometimes

get unsecured loans and of course the politicians themselves remember that they can take out any country financially or militarily that they want to take out this is a master plan of what i call the new world order their priorities are one to secure the world's natural resources their second is to control the markets for those resources and thirdly to control the gateways the sea lanes and the pipeline routes when you have control of this you've basically got the world in the palm of your hand whoever controls the finances of the world controls the world and this is what we're looking at here. you're watching a weekly here on our t.v. and coming your way in the program this hour racing for the top job for the people of south head for the polls to choose a new president will leave the country on a path of recovery after the devastating war with georgia three years ago.

a russian interplanetary craft carrying tons of highly toxic fuel malfunctions during flight our report of the possible consequences that also is coming your way here on the weekly. thousands of people took over central london on wednesday to protest against a three fold rise in university tuition fees and public spending cuts demonstrators chanted angry slogans while around four thousand police officers were deployed along with organizers planned within existing occupy london camp outside of st paul's cathedral blocked by riot police a number of arrests were made but the police say the march was largely peaceful there were reports of officers being authorized to use rubber bullets should violence break out in time just angered the protest organizers. people have all sorts of political views and i was under the impression that that was allowed in this country. what the announcement that was made the incredibly provocative

announcement that was made that there's going to be rubber bullets in preparation for this demonstration is absolutely outrageous i mean if anything is likely to increase the level of tension increase that the level of distrust and the level of fear actually of the police it would have been that and they have done that and that's a terrible terrible thing no one in their right mind is about trying to keep it a calm the police the only role the police should be playing is to facilitate the rights to peaceful protests. also in the spotlight in london which in a legal combat in the next hour here in our outspoken bars but as our chelsea owner roman abramovich continued legal drama playing out all over a claim of six point five billion dollars. now a quarter past the hour here in moscow

a report by it would you answer tomic watchdog has heightened fears this week that iran could be developing a nuclear weapon but 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 and are calling for a review of the country's cooperation with the agency terrans envoy to the i.a.e.a. says his country will not stop its nuclear activities she says have always been peaceful and totally transparent. or he is not professional and balance only with political motivation and under political pressure by u.s. and couple other are the western countries this report has an x.l. fifteen pages of the allegations and the materials which were handed over only last week saying the company should man there read the ten page years of good report of

the record general which says that all activities including a retirement are continuously under to safeguard inspection the only second part which is that any is about the american allegation the important thing is that we are party to n.p.t. all activities are on their. guard and we have fired even hundreds of sharks shortly see the analyses this is great and we two months ago invited the creative director general the i.a.e.a. to even visit the r. and d. of scientific reach men can you give me any example that any respect or have been permitted to any sense in any other part of the war. all right now we are coming to you live from the heart of moscow that has a lot of stories from around the world now this hour now the leader of russia's for church israel has begun a peacemaking visit to syria for talks with president assad and he called on the syrians to build an open society and reinforce national unity to avoid

a civil war because it came as the arab league decided to suspend the country until a peace plan is brought in the announcement was made after an emergency session in egypt receiving full approval from the leaders of the e.u. and us now the move angered thousands of pro-government supporters in syria and then 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 khyber province near the afghan border no one has claimed responsibility for the blasts but officials have blamed previous violence in the area on the taliban and its longest militants now this comes just a day after a dozen people died after a gun fight i love 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 reporters had to wear protective suits and masks before being allowed in 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 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 by local criminal groups is officially home to seventy thousand people over 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 other two thousand and sixteen olympics. e.u. police are investigating ethnic clashes in north and kosovo which resulted in a serbian man's death and at least two injuries late on wednesday fresh violence came most nato peacekeepers deployed to 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 because of a border the 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 political analyst alexander believes there's a bigger picture behind nato his actions they have been doing it for years now and they've broken their mandate actually they're doing the job of the albanian control government through krishna 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 of force they're acting like an occupier he said of the peacekeepers they are behind the crisis in greece they're behind the crisis in iran what we're seeing right now is the sawing of the new world disorder and serbia is one of the flashpoints for months now in the region have been putting up barricades as part of a struggle because of our authorities and nato is peacekeeping forces so let's

delve deeper into the causes of the resistance. i think that. perhaps not in the old this venue for a wedding but this serbian couple living in northern possible decided to get married at the barricades and meter bits of google earth were gathered together as you're into snowdrift who will invent a well known pieces which is present. with 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 but only have the kosovo serbs isolated themselves from the case for troops but also from their unwanted neighbors this is the famous bridge and make it so which splits the town into serbian 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 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 the call the case for troops managed to demolish serbs built two piles there are times when the two process is taking place simultaneously. and our. public by. people like to see. the. surge say they have no choice but to continue barricading themselves in they believe would not hesitate to wipe them off their land forcefully help they believe by k. four troops despite constant clashes with the make a contingent and political pressure from belgrade because the serbs have become accustomed to living in this cage they have built for themselves but. it was hard at first because we ran out of food and petrol but we serbs are people who

used to improvise. 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 blood turkey ones but our monasteries with stupid old heart tests of times and everyone in maturity it's a marriage this land is the cradle of it's a culture and state. another deadlock in this balkan melting pot continues belgrade 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 let's see russia ski odyssey reporting from costa. in kosovo. now if you remember that you can see that all of our stories on line as well as so much oakwood glimpse now of what else you'll find in our dot com celebrations that turned into a school rap poland's independence day party was marred by dozens of people wounded hundreds arrested and see more of how it all went down on our web site and our you tube channel. is the black sea coast find out how fine wine and a fabulous food are putting a russian region on the map of cuisine it takes a back darting to count. right

you're watching the weekly here on r.t. top headlines of today out of the week the republic of south ossetia is taking to the polls in its first presidential election since it gained international recognition now the new leader will have his hands full with a country still recovering from a devastating war to secure independence from georgia three years ago now archie is somebody no question about reports. this is the first election for a decade not to feature the current leader of south ossetia and to earthquake and many have already called to the vote one of the most unpredictable because of the sheer number of people in kerry to get their hands on the reins of power seventeen candidates were sent to battle for the chop chop but just a couple of days before the election that figure dropped eleven when some hopefuls decided to join forces feeling they had a better chance fighting together than fighting each other words on the streets of

south as such because the current minister of emergency situations and that will be view of as favorite president since. i need to start from the development of a region of the development of infrastructure economy and tourism which. indeed the number one challenge is to rebuild the devastated region following the war with a georgia three years ago the capital south a said yes 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. and i would like the future presidents finish what the former one started to finish the construction of

all of south asserted needs you can omit development that's the first thing that should be done. with so many candidates standing and the need for a second round runoff is the only thing that looks certain about this election i do not question r.t. reporting from south side here. now it is coming to you live from the heart of moscow now a technical failure affecting russia's first interplanetary mission in fifteen years has dealt a huge blow to the hopes of getting a better understanding of how the universe evolves there are now fears that the thirteen ton phobos grunt probe will crash back down to earth i think never reached its goal time but now reports from the baikonur launch the ocean. 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 group stages the rock went ok it went off into the obits of earth but then the problem started the second stage was supposed to commence with the cruise rocket firing that would carry the stove was 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 they predicted a given at the moment of 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 but it will land somewhere in the sea a 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. he's got some bottom forty right there all right anyhow past the hour here in the russian capital a recap of the headlines coming your way shortly see you in just a moment.