free. and free volunteer live video for your media project and a free media party dot com. the latest news in the week's top stories in r.t. asia pacific specific at the apec summit the region's tellers agreed to start work in a free trade zone that could revolutionize relations but that's not all. the russian and american presidents hold talks on the sidelines of the apec summit in hawaii the focus missile defense and russia's future at the w t o we bring you all the latest from honolulu just ahead of the program. also this hour rewriting history in europe a new government being formed and prime ministers replaced in bed ridden greece and italy as both nations raced to pull back from the financial abyss. plus a un report claims iran might be seeking to obtain

a nuclear weapon that tehran slams the allegations of a u.s. backed smear campaign the top stories this hour. a look back at the past seven days top stories in the latest developments this is the weekly on. 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 barack obama hosted the get together in hawaii and met up with anything it would have to churn over some pretty hot topics and he's. now reports. the apec summit of course as we know gathers twenty one economies that meet 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 meet 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's 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 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 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 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 force 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 drop becoming a full fledged member of the world trade organization for the summer of twenty twelve and a very important element so took place today the us president barack obama said

that he would start working with the u.s. congress to try to call off the 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 nine hundred seventy three and even though it has been under moratorium it's definitely been causing a little friction between russia and the u.s. when it comes to trade between the two countries now getting rid of this amendment is something that certainly could really improve trade relations not just for russia in the united states but the international community working with the countries. of the apec summit put the finishing touches on rushers accession to the world trade organization expected next year experts of long debated with a membership will help diversify and strengthen the russian economy all lot. in the arguments. for the person on the street w two your membership will not be just something bill read about in the news but it will mean

a lot of prices removing trade barriers between states increases competition prices of imported goods and domestic companies also grow weaker with foreign markets opening up. the workers of these smugglers you can company you know looks like the . their most recent project is the north stream pipeline should international markets will face very little competition. and these costs a much larger plant in russia's south producing harvested russians it's not a good speed for months ahead and workers who can spy and. but the head of the company has a rather different outlook to that of the w t o cheerleader's. our oil and gas will be in demand even without entering the. oil agriculture will tumble. agriculture will be among the hardest hit sectors but experts say the domestic

automotive industry will be the one to undergo he will. the troubled mortgage giant up the virus 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. i pads is the government's favorite child but not all car makers in russia are cherished this used to be a driving not screech open the 1930's most successful years were the fifty's and sixty's where hundreds of thousands of musk reach cars flooded the sawyer and foreign markets after the collapse of the soviet union last creature was in desperate need of money but the government could not afford making car produces and mass creature was 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

chair wisely closely entry to the government doesn't mean you instantly have to drop all systems and comply straight away there's a 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 state's industrial did candles will have to load little of its hands 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 the reduction of customs tariffs and trade barriers to a more level playing field across international markets if you're going to chill for r t u. this is our team live here in moscow with you twenty four hours a day still to come this hour full screen ahead i should say people streaming head to join the w t o russia is

a brand new gas pipeline direct to germany's moscow moves to cement trade ties with the west. and this resistance in kosovo fresh clashes result in. injury. stories still to come but first in italy the race is on to form a new caretaker government to pull the country back from the financial abyss as follows the resignation of silvio berlusconi who stepped down on saturday having ruled the country's prime minister for a total of ten years in three separate terms former commissioner mario monti is considered the main contender to replace going to skinny furthur courts now from rome. to say continuing this evening on the possible combination of they can take a government pressed into politics the meeting with political leaders today to discuss that and to discuss he could take the top spot still there are some differences of opinion amongst various political quips about what should happen and

indeed. she may be the next to lead take a government task force to happen and now the cuts hit a lot of people think the top spot is a full the e.u. commission that mary muncie is a very worst acted economist here in the country he's your cat he knows the system inside and out and he's someone who would certainly have very good relations with brussels there are question marks a democratic just in the sea take it up and move slightly whether or not he's going to be able to have enough support his nickname here is see for marriott and certainly if he was to take the top spot he would really have is what. and then he was behaving that he'd be able to live up to that nickname is a daunting task lies ahead so you have it does take a bit opposition or yesterday when we see it so good berlusconi's resignation there was celebrations that rhyme oh that was our initial enthusiasm and people are

a little bit more pragmatic when it comes to politics is the history of mistrust that political leaders inside. no one hears things that is going to be resolved with a change of leader with a change of government. there is a lot of uncertainty ahead and of course as we were saying these reforms that we saw caused in the parliament chile to be implemented by whoever now takes power and say the people here are facing here is very very painful austerity some of these measures including the eighty hikes killed because pension cuts. so you know there is a lot uncertainty about what is the what is going to happen moving forward now tonight is it continues into the evening in these discussions continue perhaps this thing tomorrow that did ring that really at a time when you need very strong united act here what we see again it's none of these divisions taking place that we don't send a message

a certainty that everyone's looking for right now. for us reporting there wolf for more on this let's talk for broadband to patrick young he's executive director of the investment firm t.v. advisors patrick good to see here in italy was quick to replace silvio berlusconi as its prime minister but will another politician especially a former commissioner like mario monti used to take the job but not really make a difference to the country's financial woes. look i mean this is just incredible altogether i mean obviously silvio berlusconi had become rather a busted flush of government and he really hadn't done anything in order to reform italy in the way that it required he lost the faith of the major employers and basically a large number of other people as well as it has to be said the european union's other leaders but i think the real problem here is the idea that suddenly overnight because we change the brand and the name of the man who's hiding over the door of the office of prime minister we suddenly get a miraculous change in italy and the truth is italy has

a huge amount of debt they need to sell their to in the very near future in order to manage to ensure that they can pay the salaries of teachers and other members of the public service and ultimately it's going to be very difficult come what may because the markets have lost faith not just in italy but in fact in europe so-called political leadership who are doing anything but leading very want to their course is quite favored by the markets but what about the people in italy the austerity measures they're facing will he be able to push those through will italian people accept those austerity measures will italy be other fulfill the obligations of the e.u. in the aisle earth i think it's incredibly difficult i mean what we're looking at here is you know it's a little bit like i suppose trying to govern when you're used to the idea of propelling a speedboat around the country and in fact changing a nation it's much more like captain in the oil tanker i mean it takes these things several miles in order to manage to stop and turn round in a same with governments i mean the italians are being told until recently

everything was absolutely fine there was nothing to worry about an oil of a certain at least being told hold gosh actually we are paupers we have to cut back on every possible service within government everybody is going to lose money and we'd like you to just trust us the politicians who haven't obviously been telling the truth all along and i think it's very interesting and if we look domestically you'll see that this evening there is clearly a rift within the italian political circle because there are a large number of people most notably. the crew separatists the northern party the northern league whose leader and is very very keen to have an instant general election why because he's the sort of person who thinks he can be a lightning rod but just sent and the people of italy are going to be very upset about these moves and mario monti i agree a technocrat as he is an incredibly intelligent man as the u.s. is going to have all his work in order to manage to try and be a bully go forward in the way that they want which is austerity which is not going

to agree with the italian people at all skerritt in measures the right thing go patrick in the long term not just for greece but for also if you just talk about an other eurozone members is that the right way forward just briefly well very briefly there's two issues here italy can be taken out of this it's issues it can be sure what's there with some quite subj austerity greece tragically that is just an economy in a death spiral and it doesn't matter who's going to lead the country i knew they were going to do new technocrat government but ultimately i just don't see how you can pile debt on debt and expect people to keep cutting their pensions and survive series of very difficult different positions ok greece in a different position should greece then just go it could be kicked out of the eurozone would that be a bad or a good thing perhaps if it is kicked out and it would drag down the rest of the eurozone members and actually strengthen their position would there be a good argument for kicking greece out there was a great argument for kicking greece a year it two months ago and the tragedy now is the situation is so bad that

unfortunately greece is a tragedy come what may but do they need to default on their guests absolutely because that country needs wholesale restructuring and the problem is that we have all of these banks in france and germany and also other countries who don't want to lose money on those debt holdings and that unfortunately is at the root of this whole problem the greek people are not effectively ending up as political. holmes predominantly in paris but also in berlin what should police do it must have alternate steps right now i whether it leaves the euro zone or not is somewhat technical really an untold but for another discussion but ultimately the greek people need to secure their own destiny and decide what they want to do because piling austerity on a stereotype is just going to lead to more militancy and tragically people starving in the streets and nobody wants to see it up within the modern europe but i certainly don't patrick every week there seems to be

a new peak reached in this euro zone crisis and just how many more picks can the eurozone sustain now oh oh look we really are close to the the end i mean truly there is no leadership at the european union political level we're hearing from the apec today that they're extremely worried about what's going on the americans have been trying to push the europeans into having an outbreak of leadership and it's just not happening and ultimately if that doesn't go on sadly i wish i didn't have to keep coming on and saying this the euro itself is probably going to implode by the end of the year or perhaps even the end of this month unless we see some serious action and at the moment i mean we had a tragedy at travesty of the g. twenty summit just last week nothing is being led in europe no solutions are being made and everybody is ultimately playing politics with the livelihoods of individual workers in europe and that's a disaster for everybody patrick young always interesting to hear your point of view thank you very much indeed for joining us live here on r.t.

. for 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 one around four thousand police officers were deployed along the route organizers plan to link up with an existing occupy london camp outside of supports cathedral but were blocked by riot police a number of arrests were made but police say the march was largely successful there were reports of officers being authorized to use rubber bullets should violence break out which had angered 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 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 was likely to increase the level of tension increase that the level of distrust and the level of fear actually of the

police he would have been and they have done that and that's a terrible terrible thing no one in their right mind could possibly say that is about trying to keep the car the police the only role the police should be playing is to facilitate the rights to peaceful protests. a report by the un's atomic watchdog is 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 and russia stressing the need for caution over what appears to be an inconclusive report runs brushing the allegations aside blaming the us for putting pressure on the international atomic energy agency really lawmakers are now calling for a review of the country's cooperation with the agency western leaders have come down hard on toronto of the claims made in the report but political analyst chris bambery thinks they're looking the wrong way. i'm still waiting to hear the british threatening strong measures against israel who just the other week tested avoids the missile capable of carrying nuclear warheads israel has

a week long nuclear program which was kept secret we know that britain and france many years ago provided you really a religion really with or for that for that program in c. in secret and meanwhile israel has also carried out an operation using an airbase and so then you're seeing if warplanes can go in there and come back in preparation for an attack on iran why need to is allowing israel to use its base inside libya for this purpose i don't know perhaps whom 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 a defeat in a war with one of those arab states ganging up against iran and i think the danger is that if it 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. police are investigating fresh clashes in northern kosovo which resulted in the serbian man's death and two injuries. during a fight between ethical being in service along the course of a border late on wednesday early that day nato peacekeepers in the area used tear gas to quell resistance as they try to dismantle barricades and secure general says the tension has been caused by casillas attempts to extend its control over border crossings in the so dominated area political analysts said xander peretz believes there's a bigger picture behind nato's actions. they've been doing it for years now and they've broken their mandate actually they're doing the job of the bay and control government to prishtina they're doing it openly in spite of their mandate from the u.n. 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 instead of peacekeepers and they're

behind the crisis in greece they're behind a crisis in iran we're seeing right now is the slowing of the new world this order and serbia is one of the flashpoints tension has been growing in kosovo in finance but life goes on for serbs who remain passionate about their fight against nato peacekeepers and the course of the authorities and actually going to task it takes a deep and it now into the on going to speed. that. perhaps not in the old this venue for a wedding but this serbian couple living in northern course all decided to get married at the barricades in meter of its local call up we're going to be this here and does the woodruff who invents. just. this sort of barricades in northern kosovo have been standing for several months now for those who built them there 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 minutes which splits the town and the serbian and albanian parts it was called the bridge of friendship it 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 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 obstacle that k. for troops managed to demolish serbs built two piles there are times when the two poles sisters take place simultaneously. and. like to see. the. serbs say they have no choice but to continue bury kidding themselves in they believe abandons 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 both great because the serbs have become accustomed to living in this cage they have built for themselves. it is hard at first when we run out of food and petrol but we serbs are people who are used to improvise. finding a way out we've built alternative routes through the mountains so now we can again receive supplies to the humanitarian catastrophe or do the orthodox priest of the towns 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. because of all his indifferent hard times even be in my good turkey ones but now monasteries with stude all tests of times and everyone and literally it's an age this land is the cradle of you

serve culture and state that. another deadlock in this balkan melting pot continues belgrade is still unwilling to resume negotiations with pristina which would put great 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. a look see russia see reporting from cautious commute in kosovo russia has acted in a new era of energy security for western europe with the launch of the north stream pipeline now pumping russian gas direct into germany rooting out any rolls with transit countries which had previously left the european consumers out in the cold daniel bushell watched as the receiving end of the pipeline was unveiled. wheel of fortune turns in europe's favor a year leaders hailed russia's first ever route that skirts tricky transit nations

bill routes and ukraine where the gas rich middle east also unstable energy chief say the project's a boom in several ways nothing brings you should give us a clue that they. have everything for. admission a security officer for with defense is there we travel the world. the sentiment of security from the. very essence of this security comes with a hefty price tag the project cost some eight billion euro and folk nordstrom operated gazprom was told by many top homeless that the world's longest subsidy guess route was doomed to failure this is a pipeline they said couldn't be built it's too long too expensive and technically they said it was impossible but it's happened think experts is the russian engineering brilliance yeah it's that technical. design of the pipeline

which is i think the best pipeline we have. for guess what in the world nordstrom's first line has started successfully and the second goes operational in twenty twelve together they can heat twenty six million homes a year but more is needed gas use has jumped even through the current e.u. to crisis and supply can't keep up with predicted demand has promised given the strongest him so far the third line could also be built mean that it will add all the capacity of existing and future by plenty still not enough expansion not steam will be discussed but is so so many even call this project the first step that could take russia into the e.u. single market there are those who hold nord stream will make the tussauds friendlier. we are trying. to europe even integrate europe and russia into

a common energy space and if this is space. be successful then we can think about creating an common economic space in a free trade zone as the first gas began to flow optimistic leaders were all smiles the next few months will show if streams really the start of a new era between the e.u. and russia or just another point dream the new bush forty in germany. there's not a twenty seven minutes past the hour here in moscow i'll recap the headlines for you in just a few moments to this life the nazi. germany .

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