get together in hawaii and met up with me to remove it have to churn over some pretty hot topics as artie's understudies or chuck and now reports. the apec summit of course as we know gathers twenty one economies that make up the asia pacific 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 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 the 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 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 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 the talks at the apec summit put the finishing touches on russia's

accession to the world trade organization expected next year the expense of long debated whether membership will help diversify and strengthen the russian economy or not well to break down the arguments. for the person on the street w t l 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 unfortunate 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 while so much the largest plant in russia's south producing harvested rushers. is full for months ahead and workers who conspire. 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. well 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. that is the government's favorite 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 my screech chorus flooded the soviet and poor and markets after the collapse of the soviet union creature 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. 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 every culture timber and car making but at a certain point the state's 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 the reduction of customs tariffs and

trade barriers to a more level playing field across international markets exceeding the grouch over r t. well coming up here in r.t. this are ethnic tensions on the rise as distance in kosovo after fresh clashes result in death and injury. also still to come a russian interplanetary spacecraft carrying tons of highly toxic fuel malfunctions during the flight a report on the possible consequences coming up soon. the former e.u. commissioner mary 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 and three separate terms for ports now from rome. continuing this evening on the possible nation of a caretaker government president the politician it's been meeting with the let's

call leaders today to discuss that and to discuss he could take the top spot there are some differences of opinion maven amongst these political quips about what should happen and indeed. should maybe be the next to lead that can take a government to happen now the president did hear a lot of people think that top spot is a form the e.u. commission mary a month he is a very well respected economist here in the country. he knows the system inside and he still thought someone who would certainly have good relations with brussels there are question marks a democratic interest in the city as 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 marietta and certainly if he was to take that top spot he would really have his work cut out there and then he would be hyping that he'd be able to live up to that nickname is

a dauntingly each task lies ahead for whoever does take a view that position well yesterday when we salute soviet ballasts gagne's resignation there were celebrations. oh that was our initial enthusiasm and people are a little bit more pragmatic when it comes to politics to go to history of mistrust that political leaders. 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 hike job because pension cuts . so you know that 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 in these discussions continue the hats as being the mark that did the ring that really at a time when you need very strong united actually what we fear get is some of these the visions taking place there certainly don't send the message as certainty that everyone's looking for right now so for three porting their an investment advisor patrick young told me a little earlier that he thinks that unless the eurozone take serious action out of power shifting will help it solve its problems but i think the real problem here is the idea that suddenly overnight because we change the brand name of the man who will run 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 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 fear not just in italy but in fact in europe so-called

political leadership who are doing anything but leading nothing is being led in europe no solutions are being made and everybody is alternately playing politics with the livelihoods of individual workers in europe and that's a disaster for everybody in the euro itself because probably going to implode by the end of the year or perhaps even the end of this month on lest we see some serious action. petra 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 carroll's visit is the latest effort by moscow to try and mediate a peace deal the move comes as the arab league decided to suspend syria's membership sparking public in damascus meanwhile dozens more people have reportedly been killed across the country on sunday and the latest wave of crackdowns on government protests let's get some perspective now from a journalist action attacks 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. 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 suspend 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 running 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 a sad maybe perhaps carefully stage managed display for the international media. i think as well as victory against israel in two thousand and six widely ally what you see as allied of course to the syrian government have

a big effect on these american government on these american and american client governments because the way that the west wants to perceive what is happening is perhaps a libyan scenario one former m i six agent was quoted recently in the past week or so as saying that what actually may follow may be something like in 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 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 some day here and when a piece of property here it's not after the first world war this isn't post autumn and 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 that here they just said civilians where are they getting the weapons from lockheed martin exhibiting in the dubai 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 has 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 the picture carol president sat 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. president assad finished his meeting with the patriarch a few hours ago it's obvious that russia doesn't want to military conflict the foreign minister. mr lavrov said said as much and china obviously don't they won't

be using the u.n. resolution what i think i fear and what many analysts may be fearing at the moment is that 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 almost and also forget that turkey has been actively involved in the even told us diplomatic self and as i understand it as advisor to the citizens to leave syria to turkey is playing a game here and the media is playing a massive game qatar's 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 assad in the interests of those people who are reportedly being persecuted by his forces the u.n. saying something like every three and a half thousand civilians are 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 the fall about your outside will be welcome to those he's persecuting but what are the dangers for the region what what the chief chief danger here is the rise of salafi islam with 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 that 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 it is quite risky areas and we all know that he has been to slow the reforms

that he's kept promising but it's up to other forces in the syrian regime to realize that they are fighting a grand game of opponents here and they better come up with a proper strategy rather than thinking the status quo will succeed you're 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 a sad just briefly. i don't think we are going to go in the short term and 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 we'll be leaving syria a little time yet always interesting to hear your perspective thanks so much option afshin rattansi joining us live there 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 of what appears to be inconclusive report it runs brushing the allegations aside blaming the u.s. for putting pressure on the international atomic energy agency really lawmakers are now calling for a view of the country's cooperation with the agency or any political scientists mohammad marandi has said that the i.a.e.a. is findings a biased and deeply flawed the whole report itself it's based on forged documents there is absolutely nothing new in the record of the documents are from the year two thousand and four and before there was a general trend to try to put iran in a corner of the corner iran if you recall just a few weeks ago the americans made outrageous accusations about some murder plot of

the saudi ambassador to 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 they're all saying that this is new information it proves that iran is trying to produce nuclear weapons when in reality of their documents go back to two thousand and four and the previous years all i've been refuted in the past the united states has never provided that 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 gunfire broke out during a fight between ethnic albanians and serbs along the serb course of a border late on wednesday earlier that day nato peacekeepers in the area used tear gas to quell resistance as they try to dismantle a barricade u.n. secretary 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 public 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. control government to prishtina and they're doing it all 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 like an occupier he said of the peacekeepers there 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 now to some of the stories from across the world at this stage of the day in a world update this comes as the. sorry about that this is the leader of russia's orthodox church picture out carol as we've mentioned before has begun a peacemaking visit to syria for talks with president assad he called on 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 the 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 n'est 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 new. plant in japan has opened its doors to journalists for the first time in eight months porters 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 edition nero's largest slum of drug gangs the shanty town controlled in part by local criminal groups is officially home to seventy thousand people although some estimates say the real figure is much higher 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 group probe will crash back to earth having never reach its goal a lot reports now from the baikonur launch station. hopes were high when the solo boss 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 orbit 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 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 is most likely heading right back down to earth it's likely that it will happen about the end of november the beginning of just them but they predicted date given at the moment is the twenty sixth of november as earth's gravitational field slowly pulls the screen back into the atmosphere the upper atmosphere is a very turbulent and that was going to throw the rocket around as it comes back but

eventually it's going to have to land somewhere the hopes are but it will land somewhere in the sea of the leaves this is he or some kind of. blood of course or. maybe some system. is in dispute which we still pay attention to for the quality of for go for it approaches. the species were called waves and. who is full of these or grows for sometimes they were very tiny. piece of metal can be of course so if you will before the rock it is carrying about ten tons of very toxic and highly flammable fuel. and there's also a small amount of radioactive material in the equipment on board the chances of it landing on a populated area are very small and and so are the chances that it will cause any harm but the chance is there and that's what experts at mission control are trying

to avoid. russia has ushered in a new era of energy security for western europe with the launch of the pipeline is now pumping russian gas directly to germany ruling out any rails with transit countries which previously left european consumers out in the cold daniel bushell has been watching 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 on stable energy chief say the project's a boom in several ways nothing brings addition of attitude that brings everything for. admission and security of the right for with it and he's very travelled the world. he said in an tough secure way through every

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 homeless 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 technical they said it was impossible that it's happened think experts is down to russian engineering brilliance. use that technical. design off 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 yes use has jumped even through the current crisis and supply can't keep up with predicted demand gazprom given the strongest him so far

the third line could also be built mean that they fall at all the capacity of existing comfier show the 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 two sides friendlier . we are trying. to europe even integrate europe and russia into a common energy space and therefore this is a space we'll be successful. 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. in germany. still ahead here this hour an insight into medicine that could poison people instead of

treating them at a special report coming up very shortly but in the meantime about the recap of this week's top stories and today's headlines after this short break stay with us life. radically in ghost town. squandered money.

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a free trade zone that could revitalize relations the russian and u.s. presidents also use the apec summit for a summit. meeting on the sidelines to discuss missile defense and russia's membership of the world trade organization. new governments in. both nations race to pull back from the financial abyss to approve new austerity measures to steer clear of bankruptcy and avert disaster in the euro zone. report claims iran. has a u.s. backed smear campaign. reconsidering their country's cooperation with the i.a.e.a. which they're calling the disappointment. with more details on those stories in thirty minutes from now in the meantime as promised we reveal just how toxic the american pharmaceutical industry can get in its pursuit of profit the second part of our special report is next. do you thousand into the top ten.