on our cue. from. the latest news in the week's top stories on asia pacific specific at the apec summit the region keep cars agree to stop work in a free trade zone that could revolutionize relations but that's not all. the russian 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. rewriting history in europe new governments being the prime ministers replaced integrity greece and italy as both nations race to pull back from the financial abyss. plus a u.n. report claims iran might be seeking to obtain a nuclear weapon or to run slams allegations as a u.s. pact smear campaign.

to look back at the past seven days top stories on the latest developments this is the weekly r.t. 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 record bombers did they get together in hawaii and met up with me to an event have to churn over some pretty hot topics as parties and the stars of chaka 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 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 offered by 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 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 force 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 job becoming a full fledged member of the world trade organization by the summer of twenty twelve and a very important element took place today the us president barack obama said that he would start working with the 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 us 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 they expose a long debated whether membership will help and strengthen the russian economy or lot. breaks down the arguments. for the person on the street w. general 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 the mass to 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 so much the largest plant in russia's south producing harvested rushers it's what a book is full for months ahead and workers who conspired. to have 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. oil agriculture. agriculture will be among the hardest hit sectors but experts say that a mastic automotive industry will be the one to undergo most he will.

the troubled water giant up the vase was rescued from the brink of death in the economic crisis of two thousand and eight i promise to put in more than one billion dollars in loans cash and guarantees. i think that is the government's favorite child but not all car makers in russia are as cherished this used to be a bing must reach open the 1930's most successful years were the fifty's and sixty's when hundreds of thousands of must reach cars flooded the soviet and foreign markets after the collapse of the soviet union last creature was in desperate need of money but the government could not afford to loss making car purchases and last creature was crossed out. the only way to avoid the collapse of yet another industrial giant experts say is to use a transition period after joining the w chair wisely closely entry to the community

doesn't mean you instantly have to drop all customs and comply straight away there's a transit so-called transition period roughly seven years or so protectionist measures will apply for a number of sensitive industries which employ millions of people such as agriculture timber and car 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 level playing field across international markets exceeding the gretsch over r t. well coming up here on r.t. this hour ethnic tensions on the rise as fears surface distance in kosovo after fresh clashes result in death and injury. also still to come this hour a russian interplanetary spacecraft carrying tons of highly toxic fuel malfunctions

juror in the flight report and the possible consequences coming up soon. the former e.u. commissioner marion monti has agreed to try to form a new caretaker government in italy to pull the country back from the financial abyss as far as 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 of furthur ports now from rome. tuesday continuing this evening on the possible they can all they can take a government rest in the college town they've been meeting with political leaders today to discuss that and to discuss he could take the top spot there are some differences of opinion amongst those political quips about what should happen in the days. she may be the next to lead take up to the task was to happen now the past. a lot of people think like the top spot is a comedy you can marry a muncie is a very worst affected economist here in the country. you're

a crowd he knows the system inside and out he so that someone who would certainly have good relations with brussels there are question marks so they've democratically to see if they can take a government 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 the top spot he would really have his work cut out the headed and then he would be taping that he'd be able to live up to that nickname his own tingly cause lies ahead so you have it does take a bit opposition or yesterday when we had the silly so good fellas gagne's resignation there was celebrations. held it was our initial enthusiasm and people are a little demo pragmatic when it comes to politics is history mistrust political leaders. no one has 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 cost in the fall of it still needs 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 p a t hike helped cause pension cuts. so you know there is a lot of uncertainty about what is the what is going to happen moving forward now tonight as it continues into the evening these discussions continue at the house is being tomorrow that dithering that really at a time when you need a very strong united that here what we see again it's none of these divisions taking place there so i think don't send a message a certainty that everyone's looking for right now. reporting there and investment advisor patrick young told me a little earlier that he thinks that unless the eurozone take serious action the

amount of power shifting will help it solve its problems but i think the real problem here is the idea that suddenly overnight because we've changed the brand name of the man who says he will ring the door of the office of prime minister we salute the miraculous change in italy and the crucially is italy has a huge amount of debt they need to sell 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 what may because the markets have lost fear not just in italy but in fact in europe the so-called political leadership who are doing anything but lead and 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 the to disaster for everybody in the euro itself because probably going to include by the end of the year or perhaps even the end of this month unless we see some serious action. patrick young talking to

a little earlier to syria now where the head of russia's orthodox church is calling for unity and an end to the bloodshed picture because it is the latest effort by moscow to try and mediate a peace deal and move comes as the arab league decided to suspend serious going to ship sparking public fury in damascus meanwhile dozens more people have reportedly been killed across the country on sunday and the latest wave of crackdown on anti-government protests let's get some perspective now from journalist action and joining me live from london how significant is it that eighteen arab nations have now turned against another arab nation are assad's days numbered well you know bill over in europe the bankers of replaced two democratically elected the arab league well it's a bunch of dictators and they want to spend another dictator i think the arab league is pretty meaningless except the western media seem to love the story but i think the massive demonstrations in support of us versus the casualty figures and

the general context make this a very very worrying and disturbing time for the middle east you talk about that support for a sad we've seen those pictures of thousands rallying in support of him still the west seems to be ignoring that is that because perhaps they don't see this is genuine support for maybe perhaps carefully stage managed display for the international media. i think as well as victory against israel in two thousand and six why the ally what is seen as a light of course to be syrian government have a big effect on these american governments on these american and american client governments because the way that the west wants to perceive what is happening is the libyan scenario one former my six agent was quoted recently in the past week or so saying that what actually may follow may be something like an afghanistan scenario if western interests plus saudi arabia because it really is saudi arabia

turkey and qatar that's doing the running here if a military conflict actually begins and there really could be an appetite for military intervention bearing in mind what you've just said and of course the implications geopolitically obviously syria a very sensitive part of the region. absolutely and the idea that they think it's a great game you know we're celebrating remembrance commemorating remembered sunday here and wearing a piece poppy here it's not after the first world war this isn't post often politics we're dealing with this is very dangerous indeed and the fact that many syrian soldiers have died in the conflict they don't normally report here they just say it civilians where are they getting the weapons from martin exhibiting in the biafra said profits are up they said profits are very good in the middle east at the moment because of all these dangers there's something very dangerous about this entire situation and it could rapidly affect western interests to the detriment of . russia as we've just been reporting it's been actively trying to mediate peace in

syria for months and of course the head of russia's orthodox church he's currently there and during his meeting with petrov carol president assad thank russia for its role in supporting the syrian people is this an indication that international efforts really could make an impact though or is it too late. presidents had finished his meeting with the patriarch a few hours ago it's obvious that russia doesn't want a military conflict the foreign minister. mr lavrov said said as much and china obviously don't either they won't be using the un resolution not what i think i fear and what many analysts may be fearing at the moment is there a saudi backed proxy war will continue and there will be an insurgency that is fighting in syria against the assad government and will continue to cause instability in syria and beyond and this will be a sort of slow burn phenomena with the united states and europe taking a kind of backseat promise and also forget that turkey has been actively involved

and even told as diplomatic as i understand it was advised its own citizens to leave syria to turkey is playing a game here too the media is playing a massive game. television station al-jazeera very obviously wanting the four of us out of the moment and the western media to isn't the fall of in the interests of those people who are reportedly being persecuted by his forces the u.n. saying something like i would throw in a half thousand civilians dying is that not a reason for some form of intervention now because clearly it seems as sad troops he himself is not listening to this international condemnation and continues with this persecution of those people who are opposing it. obviously they fall about your are welcome to those he's persecuting but what for the dangerous for the region what what the chief chief danger here is the rise of salafi islamist islamic movements in this region and saudi arabia is backing them we're hearing

intelligence sources saying that the saudis are sending in arms otherwise how is it the syrian troops are being killed so many syrian troops are being killed by these seemingly civilian protesters we don't get so much of the mobile footage of those sure so yes but then again is assad really in control of syria it's a question i often asked when i was in syria because the way the syrian government works just won't risk eeriest and we all know that he has been to slow up the reforms that he's promising but it's up to other forces in the syrian regime to realize that they are fighting a ground game of opponents here and be able to come up with a proper strategy rather than thinking the status quo will succeed you saying he's been slow in those reforms he's made indications and indeed the arab league that he is trying to make some sort of change there but with his position. any

change you make is it not going to be too late and we will see just briefly i don't think we are going to go in the short term always a dangerous thing to make predictions like that but this isn't a libyan scenario this is liable to be something like in afghanistan or iraq or if there are foreign forces involved. i think will be leaving syria for a little time yet always interesting to hear your perspective thanks so much option afshin rattansi joining us live from london. 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 and what appears to be inconclusive report runs brushing the allegations aside blaming the u.s. for putting pressure on the international atomic energy agency really lawmakers and are calling for a view of the country's cooperation with the agency really

a political scientist one hundred marandi has said that the i.a.e.a. its findings are biased and deeply flawed the whole report itself it's based on forged documents there is absolutely nothing new in the report are the darkness are from the year two thousand and four and before there is a general trend to try to put iran in a choir at the top try to corner iran if you recall just a few weeks ago the americans made outrageous accusations about some a murder plot of the soul. of the united states no one in the world believed it because it was so absurd this now comes right after that this report if you if you look at the western media the corporate media there are saying that this is new information it proves that iran is trying to produce a nuclear weapon when in reality of the documents go about the two thousand and four and the previous years all have been refuted in the past the united states has never provided i with the documents this shows that this is basically an attempt to

create. pressure and to to move public opinion against iran. the police are investigating fresh clashes in northern kosovo which resulted in the serbian man's death and two injuries gun fire broke out during a flight between ethnic albanians and serbs along the serb kosovo border late on wednesday believe that day nato peacekeepers in the area used tear gas to quell resistance as they tried to dismantle a certain barricade u.n. secretary general says the tension has been caused by kosovo's attempts to extend its control over border crossings in the service the money to various political analysts so it's not a public believes there's a bigger picture behind nature's actions. they've been doing it for years now and we've broken their mandate actually they're doing the job of the. government through prishtina and they're doing it all prim with in spite of their mandate from the u.n. which is supposed to be a peacekeeping mandate to keep the warring sides separated this is an aggressive

show of force like an occupier is sort 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 slowing of the new world this order. serbia is one of the flashpoints now to some other stories from across the world at this stage in our world update this comes as the. sore about that this is the leader of russia's orthodox church picture carol as we've mentioned before has become a peacemaking visit to syria for talks with president assad he called on the syrians to i'm sorry we're going to drop that story straight away because you can see the story i'm just telling about doesn't match the pictures we have on screen i can carry on now with a relevant story in our world update a powerful explosion has killed six people in northwest pakistan the bomb was placed in a cart left unattended in the khyber province near the afghan border they want to so far claimed responsibility but officials blame previous violence in the area on taliban is mr militants this comes just a day after a dozen people died during

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 are to wear protective suits and masks before being allowed in 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 nero's largest slum of drug gangs ricin years shantytown controlled in part by local criminal groups is officially home to seventy thousand people although some estimates say the real figure is much higher the project is aimed at cutting crime in the city ahead of the twenty fourteen football world cup and the twenty sixteen olympics. technical failure affecting russia's first interplanetary mission in fifteen years

has dealt a huge blow to hopes of getting a better understanding of how the universe evolved there are now fears that the thirteen ton of groups probe will crash back to earth and never reach this goal of lottie's tom barton reports now 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 had launched in fifteen years and there was great hopes that it would help to reveal secrets about the red planet and about how life evolved those hopes have since turned to fears of a potential catastrophe reduced stage of the rocket went ok it went up into the over it's over but then the problem started the second stage was to close to commence with the cruise rockets firing that would carry the phobos space craft on a 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 disgraced craft 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. or some kind of. that life will cause. maybe some physical closeness to the industry which we should be approaching to do quality work or interest because. the future of war is louis conflict and.

we shall not visit a grocery store sometimes it will worry tiny. piece of metal can be a quarter so before you will recall what a rocket is carrying about ten tons of very toxic and highly flammable fuel. and there's also small amounts of radioactive material in the equipment onboard 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 extras and mission control are trying to avoid. russia has ushered in a new era of energy security for western europe with a nod to the strength pipeline is now pumping russian gas directly to germany ruling out any rials with transit countries which had previously left european consumers out in the cold daniel bushell has been watching as the receiving end of the pipeline was unveiled. wheel of fortune turns in europe's favor and your

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 projects a boom in several ways nothing nothing brings a different attitude that brings everything for. additional security of supply for with defending these very proud of the world. he said in the secure we feel. very good sense of this security comes with a hefty price tag the project cost some eight billion euro and fake north stream operated from was told by many top homeless that the world's longest subsidy grassroot was doomed to failure this is a pipeline they said couldn't be built it's too long too expensive and technically it is that it was impossible that it happened think experts is down to the russian engineering brilliance yeah it's that 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 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 that the third line could also be built though mean that they fall at all the basic your existing future by both is still not enough expansion of what's being will be discussed where it is so some 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. to europe even integrate europe

and russia into a common energy space and therefore this is a space. be successful that we can think about common economic space and a free trade zone as the first guest began to flow optimistic leaders were all smiles the next few months will show it streams really the start of a new era between the e.u. and russia or just another point dream shortie in germany. still ahead here this hour insights into medicine that could cause and people instead of treating them that's our special report coming up very shortly but in the meantime about the recap of this week's top stories on today's headlines that will be after this short break stay with us life and must.

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