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 me to madrid have to churn over some pretty hot topics as artie's and now reports. the apec summit of course as we know gathers twenty one economies that make up the asia pacific reserve region and this is where leaders take the opportunity to focus on all sorts of ways to boost trade between the countries 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'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 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 and 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 of 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 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 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 nine hundred eighty three and even though it has been under moratorium it's definitely been causing a little friction between russia and the u.s. when it comes to trade between the two countries now getting rid of this amendment is something that certainly could really improve trade relations not just for russia in the united states but the international community working with the

countries. talks at the apec summit put the finishing touches on russia's accession to the world trade organization expected next year experts have long debated whether membership will help diversify and strengthen the russian economy or lot. breaks down the arguments. for the person on the street w t o 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 in florida goods drop and domestic companies also grow quicker with foreign markets opening up . for workers of these metallurgical company it all looks like a win win situation their most recent project is the north stream pipeline should they enter international markets they'll face very little competition. and this is lost so much the largest plant in russia south producing harvested rushers is order

book is full four months ahead and workers who conspire. 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 w t o while agriculture will tumble. agriculture will be among the hardest hit sectors but experts say the domestic automotive industry will be the one to undergo most step he will. the troubled mortgage giant of 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 think that's is the government's favorite child but not all car makers in russia are as cherished this used to be a thriving plant of must open the 1930's most successful years were the fifty's and

sixty's when hundreds of thousands of my screech 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 muskie choice cost out. the only way to avoid become laps of yet another industrial giant experts say is to use the transition period after joining the w two wisely firstly entry to the w.t. doesn't mean you instantly have to drop all customs tires 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 agriculture timber and come making but at a certain point the state's industrial dependence will have to let go 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 exceeding the gretsch over r t. this is r.t. live here in moscow with the twenty four hours a day still to come this hour full dream ahead i should say stream or 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 death and injury. those 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 this 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. first reports now from rome. continuing this evening on the possible nation of a caretaker government president the politan it's been meeting with political leaders today to discuss that and to discuss he could take the top spot there are some differences of opinion the even amongst these political quips about what should happen and indeed. should maybe be the next to lead to take a government task force to happen now the person here who a lot of people think is take the top spot is a form of the commission that mary muncie is a very well respected economist here in the country. you know it's a system inside and he so that someone who would certainly have very good relations with brussels there are question marks a democratic interest in the state of a caretaker government and move slightly whether or not he's going to be able to

have enough support his nickname here is see from mariette and certainly if he was to take that top spot he would really have his work cut out the head and then he would be taping that he'd be able to live up to that nickname is a daunting really huge task lies ahead for whoever does take a view that position well yesterday when we had the silly so very fellas gagne's resignation there were celebrations that. oh that was our initial enthusiasm and people are a little bit more pragmatic when it comes to politics to the history of mistrust that political leaders inside certainly no one here thinks it is all 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 passed in the parliament still need to be implemented by have a now takes power and say the people here are facing here is very very painful

austerity some of these measures including the eighty hikes job 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 the more that did the ring that really at a time when you need very strong united action what we see again is some of these divisions taking place that certainly don't send the message as certainty that everyone's looking for right now. sort of 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 on r.t. well italy was quick to replace silvio berlusconi as its prime minister but will another politician especially a former commissioner like mario monti who's took to take the job really make a difference to the country's financial woes. look i mean this is just incredible together i mean obviously silvio berlusconi has 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 fear that 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 hanging 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 that debt 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 an edge but in fact in europe's so-called political leadership who are doing anything but leading very want to their cause 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 the italian people accept those austerity measures will italy be able to fulfill the

obligations of the e.u. in the iron earth i think it's incredibly difficult even more 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 to run the country and in fact changing a nation it's much more like captaining in the oil tanker i mean it takes these things several miles in order to manage to stop and turn round and it's the same with governments i mean the entire lives have been told until recently everything was absolutely fine there was nothing to worry about an oil of a certain italy's being told oh gosh actually we are talking 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 have been obviously been telling the truth all along and i think it's very interesting and if we look domestically you'll see that the saving there is clearly a rift within the talent political circle because there are a large number of people most notably. the crew separatists northern party the

northern leeds whose leader and bossy 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 of dissent and the people of italy are going to be very upset about these moves and mario monti a great technocrat as he is an incredibly intelligent man of the years is going to have all his work in order to manage to try and make it believe go forward in the way that they want which is austerity which is not going to agree with the italian people at all or stereotype measures the right thing though patrick in the long term not just for greece but for also italy 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 its issues it can't cure what's there with some quite savage 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 know they've appointed a 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 survives a series of very difficult different position ok greece in a different position should greece then just go pick me kicked out of the eurozone would that be a bad or a good thing perhaps if it is kicked out then it would track 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 debts absolutely because that country needs wholesale restructuring the problem is that we have all of these banks in france and germany and all to 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 greece do it must default on

its debts right now whether it leaves the euro zone or not is somewhat technical really and a topic for another discussion but ultimately the greek people need to secure their own destiny and decide what they want to do because piling austerity almost guarantee is just going to lead to more militancy and tragically people starving in the streets and nobody wants to see that within the modern europe well i certainly don't patrick every week there seems to be a new peak reached in this euro zone crisis just how many more pigs can the eurozone sustain now or look we really are close to the end i mean truly there is no leadership at the european union political level we're hearing from the apec today that they are 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 perhaps even the end of this month on less we see some serious action and at the moment i mean we have 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. . while thousands of people took over central london on wednesday to protest against a threefold 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 trying to link up with an existing occupy london camp outside of st paul's 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 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 and increase the the level of distrust and the level of fear actually of the police they would have been that and they have done that and that's a terrible terrible thing no one on in their right mind can possibly say that is about trying to keep the day calm 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 has heightened fears this week that iran could be developing a nuclear weapon israel is now calling on the international community to act despite being an undeclared nuclear power itself but russia is stressing the need for caution over what appears to be an inconclusive report iran's brushing the allegations aside blaming the u.s.

for putting pressure on the international atomic energy agency runyan or makers are now calling for a review of the country's cooperation with the agency western leaders have come down hard on terranova claims made in the report but london based 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 a boys think missile capable of carrying nuclear warheads israel has a we go all nuclear program which was kept secret we know the britain and france many years ago provided you really really really into for that for that program in c. in secret meanwhile israel has also carried out a law for a show using an airbase in sardinia see if it's warplanes can go in there and come back in preparation for an attack on iran and why nato is allowing israel to use its base in sardinia for this purpose i don't know perhaps he could explain but

instead we have the power which has used weapons america britain which is currently replacing its nuclear weapons trident and israel with its a legal secret nuclear program and a country which is said it would use nuclear weapons if it was facing defeat in a war with one of its arab states ganging up against iran and i think the danger is that if iran is not creating nuclear weapons it may well do saw in response to the continuing war drums 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 gunfire broke out during a fight between ethical being in service and on the course of a border late on wednesday early that day nato peacekeepers in the area used to gas to quell resistance if they try to dismantle the barricade your insecure general says the tension has been caused by kosovo's attempts to extend its control over border crossings in the dominated area political analyst alexander package 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 albanian control government and 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 it's sort of the peacekeepers they're 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 tension has been growing in kosovo for months but life goes on for serbs who remain passionate about their fight against nato peacekeepers and the kosovo authorities. takes a deeper look now into the dispute. that was perhaps not

an old this venue for a wedding but this serbian couple living in northern ca civil decided to get married at the barricades and. to cool off we're going to be others here and does that we're doing. this to our 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 in middle of it so which splits the town and been an 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 off the call the case for troops managed to

demolish serbs built two piles there are times when the to process is taking place simultaneously. and. people like you see. the. serbs say they have no choice but to continue barricading themselves they believe 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 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 used to improvise. and finding a way out we've built alternative routes through the mountains so now we can again

receive supplies 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. has seen different hard times it's even been at my bird turkey ones but terry's with stewed all tests of times and everyone and made sure of it so now it's this land is the cradle of to serve 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 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. r.t.

reporting from costs. in kosovo russia has ushered in a new era of energy security for western europe with the launch of the north stream pipeline now pumping russian gas directly to germany rooting out any where else with transit countries which had previously left european consumers in the cold audi's daniel bushell watched as the receiving end of the pipeline was unveiled. the 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 with the gas rich middle east also unstable energy chief say the project's a boon in several ways nothing nothing will bring addition of attitude that brings everything for. admission and security of supply for with it and it is there we travel the world. he said in and to secure we feel. very essential but this security comes with

a hefty price tag the project cost some eight billion euro in fact north stream operate together as promised told by many top the list that the world's longest subsidy just 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 that it happened think experts is down to russian engineering brilliance. with the technical. design of the pipeline which is i think the best pipeline we have. for guess what the 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 just use has jumped even through the current crisis and supply can't keep up with predicted demand gazprom given the strongest him so far that a third line could also be built mean that if i will add all the capacity of existing

and here show by plenty still not enough expansion. steam will be discussed where it 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 two sides friendlier . we are trying. bring russia closer to europe even integrate europe and russia into a common energy space and therefore this is a space we'll be successful then we can think about creating. economic space as a free trade zone as the first guest began to float optimistic leaders were all smiles the next few months will show if streams really the stalls of a new era between the e.u. and russia or just another point dream don't you wish you all to see in germany. because it's not twenty seven minutes past the hour here in moscow all recap the headlines for you in just

a few moments of this life. in canada and the us today it is legal for you to use

a bubble bath on your baby that contains a known carcinogen something that causes cancer most of the changes that most independent they are sponsored by the industry and most of the time they don't that is a conflict of interest today an average cancer drug prescription costs nearly one thousand six hundred dollars a month oh my god nobody with cancer in my five they're for. because ninety to ninety five percent of cancer her. family history of cancer the pharmaceutical industry spends about fourteen percent of their budget on research and development and about thirty one percent for marketing and administration. in fact there are more pharmaceutical industry lobbyists in washington d.c. than members of congress. to.

move. to. the latest news of the week's top stories in all of this is the weekly to keep the pacific rim agree to stop working on a free trade something that could revitalize relations with russian and u.s.

presidents also used the apec summit for a meeting on the sidelines to discuss missile defense and russia's membership of the world trade organization. new government sitting prime ministers out stoplights a debt ridden greece and italy as both nations race to pull back from the financial abyss and have to approve new austerity measures to stick clear a bankruptcy of the disaster in the. you're asserting. your own reports claims that iran might be seeking to obtain a nuclear weapon but turn on slams the allegations as a u.s. backed smear campaign really nor makers are now considering their country's cooperation with the international atomic energy agency which they're calling a disappointment. with a summary of those stories in about fifteen minutes from now in the meantime as north stream gas enters europe for the first time we hear from the man who's been in charge of the ambitious project former german chancellor gerhard schroeder tells us next why it's so important for all sides in.