apec summit which brings together the leaders of asian and pacific rim countries. hosted the get together in hawaii and met with dmitri medvedev to churn out some pretty hot topics as artie's anastasio. 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 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 and 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 is the missile defense plans of the united states as we know russia and nato agreed to work jointly on a european missile defense project in lisbon in two thousand and ten those talks however did come to sort of stalled because the united states was refusing to provide russia with legal guarantees that those projects would not cause a threat to security to russia and this is a fundamental issue for russia and at these talks the two presidents today did say

again that those issues still exist but they're going to continue working on missile defense together and try to work those issues out now another important aspect of course of today's talks was russia's future of the world trade organization because as we. 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 dog 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 it's

the international community working with the countries. that was. reporting right there one of 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 debating whether membership will actually help diversify and strengthen the russian economy you could have breaks down all the implications. the person on the street w. taylor membership will not be 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 drop and domestic companies also broke quicker with foreign markets opening up. for workers of these metallurgical company it only looks like a win win situation their most recent project is a north stream pipeline should then for international markets they'll face very

little competition. and this is why so much lodges want in russia south producing harvested russia is disproved for months ahead and workers who can spot it. but the head of the company has a rather different outlook to that of the w t o cheerleaders. gas will be in demand even without entering the well agricultural. middle of. a group called chu will be among the hardest hit sectors but experts say the domestic automotive industry will be the one to undergo most up here with. the troubled mortgage giant up the vase was rescued from the brink of death in the economic crisis of two thousand and eight by prime minister putin with more than one billion dollars in loans cash and guarantees. that the government's favored

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 my screech was in desperate need of money but the government could not afford to loss making copper juices and must creature. crossed out. the only way to avoid the collapse of yet another industrial giant experts say is to use the transition period after joining the w t a wisely firstly entry to the w.t. have doesn't mean you instantly have to drop all customs tires and comply straight away transit 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 come making but at

a certain point the states industrial dependence will have to let go of its hand and walk on their own two feet in the world outside it but that should also be a somewhat easier place to do business in liver duction of customs tariffs and trade barriers to a more level playing field across international markets exceeding the gretsch over r t. it's good to have you with us today here on out so you are still to come for you ethnic tensions on the rise but as fierce resistance and cause a lot of pressure plasters resolve about injuries. so nearly ten minutes past the hour here in moscow in italy the race is on to form a new caretaker government to pull the country back from a financial abyss 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 cheers and street festivities in central rome former commissioner mario monti is considered a top contender to replace palace going in the new government will be tasked with implementing an almost sixty billion euros austerity package tackling the nation's terror and our correspondent sara first in the region. that has stairs he'll finally say oh it'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 that is going to be a massive change now that he's resigned from the pace optimism certainly for a future but what the future will be right now remains uncertain it's thought that a caretaker government is going to be put in place the man has been pegged to the top spot is very well respected economists here in the country mary monti he's the former. he's a euro crowd he knows the system inside and a good links in 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 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 is certainly going to be some way to stunning 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 so. into that spiral that we see in countries like greece be sucked into 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 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 was government spending a waste of taxpayers' money and really what they were saying was very clear is that

whatever happens now and whoever takes power is that they're really going to want to see their politicians and those people in charge leading by example and of course they simply haven't seen that under berlusconi especially in the last couple of years 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 the credibility that's been lost in recent times because without the public support these reforms a simply not going to work. well meantime over in greece a new coalition government is being sworn in after former prime minister george papandreou was forced to quit over the handling of the country's debt crisis the new prime minister lucas upon them 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

says there's more to the deepening european crisis than and surely 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 the weekly here on are coming your way in the program this hour for the top job for the people of south head for the polls to choose a new president will move the country on a path of recovery after the devastating war with georgia three years ago. craft carrying tons of highly toxic fuel and malfunctions during our report of the possible consequences 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 public spending cuts demonstrators chanted angry slogans while around four thousand police officers were deployed

along route organizers planned with an existing occupy london camp outside of st paul's cathedral. 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. 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 my 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 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 police the only role the police should be playing is to facilitate the rights to

peaceful protests. also in the spotlight in london the super rich locked in a legal combat in the next hour here on our outspoken policy but as often chelsea football club 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 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 of side blaming the u.s. for putting pressure on the international atomic energy agency iranian lawmakers are now calling for a review of the country's cooperation with the agency to ron's envoy to the i.a.e.a. says his country will not stop its nuclear activities which he says have always

been peaceful and totally transparent. or not professional and not balanced with political motivation and under political pressure by the u.s. and couple other are the western countries this report has fifteen pages of the allegations and the materials which were handed over only last week to us in the company should man there read the term pages of the report of director general which says that all activities including their retirement are continuously under deceive inspection the only second part which is the annex is about the american delegation the important thing is that we are party to n.p.t. all activities are on their. part and we have had even hundreds of shark short unannounced inspections this is great and we go invited depicted director general by to even visit the ata india of sent to richmond can you give me any

example that any respect or have been permitted to any certainty in any other part of the war. all right our we're coming to you live from the heart of moscow that is and other stories from around the world now this hour the leader of russia's church . has begun a peacemaking visit to syria for talks with president assad he called on the syrians to build an open society and reinforce national unity to avoid a civil war either because it came as the arab league decided to suspend the country until a peace plan is brought in the announcement was made at an emergency session in egypt receiving full approval from the leaders of the e.u. and us by the move angered thousands of pro-government supporters in syria 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 gunfight and a 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 mosques 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 the largest slum of drug gangs. shantytown 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 at the two thousand and sixteen olympics. e.u.

police are investigating ethnic clashes in northern cause of which resulted in death and at least two injuries late on wednesday violence came as nato peacekeepers deployed in the area fired tear gas at ethnic peacekeepers say it was an attempt to seize one of their barricades set up months ago in an ongoing dispute over the course of our border the un secretary general says the tension has been caused by 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'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 of force i mean they're acting like an occupier he said of the peacekeepers they're behind the crisis in greece they're behind a 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 with the cause of our authorities and nato as peacekeeping forces so alexy going to 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 and. to cool off they were gathered together here and there were two who would invent a well known way to dress it. 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 k. four troops but also from their unwanted neighbors this is the famous bridge that it's there which splits the town into serbian 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 and meet that it's a have become the town's main gathering spot tensions are still running high just a few kilometers. for every sound off still the case for troops managed to demolish serbs built two piles there are times when the to close is taking place and. you can leave them out and if you look back 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 the serbs have become accustomed to living in this cage they have built for themselves. it was hard at first when we run out of food and petrol but we serbs are people who are used to improvise. and 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. kosovo has seen different heart times even be in my bed turkey ones but terry's with stewed all heart tests of times and everyone

and made sure of it so now it's this land is the cradle of the serb culture and statehood. another deadlock in this balkan melting pot continues belgrade is still unwilling to resume negotiations with pristina which could put great through 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. now if you remember that you can see that. on. the celebrations of. independence day. dozens of people.

see. that. you're watching the weekly top headlines of today the week. taking to the polls in his first presidential election since again the international recognition. will have his hands full with a country still recovering from a devastating war to secure independence from georgia three years ago now. this is the first election for

a decade not to feature the current leader of south ossetia and to arthur. and many have already called to the vote one of the most unpredictable because of the sheer number of people eager to get their hands on 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 sucha because the current minister from urgency situations and that of as favorite . we need to start from the development of a region the development of infrastructure economy and terrorism. indeed the number one challenge is to rebuild the devastated region following the war with the georgia asked three years ago the capital of south the said she had seen vall 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. at the phone call 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 president to finish what the former one started to finish the construction of all of south asserted 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 final question are the reporting from south ossetia. r.t. 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 evolved there are now fears that the

thirteen ton phobos grunt probe will crash back down to earth having never reached its goal. reports from the baikonur 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 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 out of synch turned to fears of a potential catastrophe 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 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 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 and so what 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. tabacco putting right or rights only half past the hour here in

the russian capital a recap of the headlines coming your way shortly see you in just a moment. now

six thirty pm here in the russian capital you with r t the latest news for you now in the week's top stories in the weekly the key powers of

a. the pacific rim agreed to start working on a free trade zone that could revitalize relations with russia u.s. presidents also used the apec summit for a meeting on the sidelines to discuss such subjects as missile defense russia's membership to the world trade organization. new governments in prime ministers out the plight of debt ridden greece and italy both nations to pull back from the financial abyss will have to approve new austerity measures to stick bankruptcy and disaster in the eurozone. one report claims that iran might be seeking to obtain a nuclear weapon but. u.s. backed smear campaign iranian lawmaker reconsidering the country's cooperation with the eye which they called a disappointment. for the first time we sit down with.