we get together to sit down around a big table around table for discussion on the topics that they're hearing that they're really here for is the trade relationships between the twenty one economies the issues of lifting custom barriers creating a healthier investment climate and really trying to reach an open and free trade zone by the year twenty twenty and this is also a day when they get to mix the work with some fun this is when the leaders will be gathering for a photo op when the where the national costume so we're expecting the twenty one leaders to wear some hawaiian shirts so this is really a fun occasion when they get to have a chat have a laugh to each other in the back and really give journalists an opportunity to decipher what all of their body language means and in other events today we're expecting a press conference from the russian president dmitry medvedev who will be summing up the events of the two days and of course next year it will be russia hosting the apec summit so this is certainly something that he is likely to address one of the key meetings of course was the bilateral talks between the russian and american

presidents where they discussed a whole wide range of different issues but importantly one of them was russia's accession to the world trade organization of course russia has been having a desire to join to join the w t o since one nine hundred ninety three and it should this is something that should be finalized and russia should become a full fledged member by the summer of two thousand and twelve and the russian president really thinks the u.s. president for helping out in this whole process he did say that this is the first u.s. administration that has actually been. positive when it comes to russia's accession to the world trade organization among other issues was of course of course the issue of missile defense where there are still some disagreements between russia and the united states because russia wants the u.s. to provide some legal guarantees that the missile defense plans in europe will not be a threat to russia's security among other issues of course iran the two leaders said that they want to have a joint kind of plan to make sure that tehran follows. it's international

obligations so that's just a few of the very many topics being discussed here on the ground so far we have nine countries including the u.s. who have signed up to really start working on this transpacific plan it's interesting that the united states has been trying to get more countries to join like you mentioned among them is of course china a major economy that's really making some here over in the united states paranoid that they might lose their sort of main spot is the number one world economy and it's interesting that china so far has has been seeing that the those u.s. plans are a little too ambitious because one of the main clause of that pact to the question would include basically a need for seat owned companies who are get subsidies from the government to be on the same level really as private companies and since so many industries in china are run by. sort of state and equities it's really a complicated matter for china and would really require a lot of restructuring so this is something that's really for now in the first

stages and just includes nine countries for now apparent tension between the u.s. and china at the apec forum can only damage america that's according to george who the founder of international strategic alliances he believes china bashing ahead of the u.s. presidential election hurts rather than helps economic recovery. the dollar has been on a steadily weakening trend. for quite a few years i would say since the end of the bush administration and in the beginning obama administration why because we're printing more and more dollar bills and one of the only country that has that ability and privily to print more money when we need to and the natural consequence of that of course is that we can ng the dollar as far as being competitive or not being competitive i think that a lot of that is a structural problem in in the us you have high wages. certain protection

sentiments from different sectors of the economy and and that makes it hard to compete on a worldwide market i say i attribute a lot of that make it to the mystic all it takes to the run up to two thousand and twelve presidential election it's really unfortunate because if they see it differently they could it was recognised that inviting chinese investments into the u.s. would be good for the u.s. it will be it would be helpful to the u.s. local economy to be so i don't welcoming and so hostile to chinese investment is actually being insult only interests they're all seem to try to outdo each other in being anti china at this point. the way i see it though i think this is say the usual cyclical run up until we had a presidential election and everything will be back to reality after that and

things will calm down. those side talks at the apec summit put the finishing touches on russia's ascension to the world trade organization expected next year experts have long debated whether membership will help diversify and strengthen the russian economy or not that he breaks down the arguments. for the person on the street w t o membership will not be just something we'll read about in the news but it will mean lower prices removing trade barriers between states increases competition prices or when ford 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 a role so much the largest plant in russia's south producing harvested rushers. is

food for months ahead and workers who conspired. but the head of the company has a rather different outlook to that of the w t o cheerleaders. gas will be in demand even without entering the well 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 plant of musk reach 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 musk reach 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 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 every culture timber and come 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 gretsch over r t. coming up full stream ahead to join me. russia opens a brand new gas pipeline direct to germany as moscow moves to cement trade ties with the west. and thousands of students march across central london furious over education cuts and a tripling of tuition it's. also in syria hundreds of thousands come out in support of the government after damascus is banned from the arab league for failing to end the deadly unrest in the country. mario monti a former e.u. commissioner has been appointed the head of the new caretaker government in italy 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 as prime minister for a total of ten years in three separate terms are to sarah firth brings us the latest from rome. for those of you feeling bad about the start of another working week on monday spare thoughts further the former commissioner and mario monti has just been appointed by the president to form a new government and he now faces the massive task of pulling the country back from the financial abyss into which is currently staring so not your usual job description certainly but everyone a very much a playing he's up to the job and everyone's going to be watching extremely closely to see what the results of that will be now he is currently deciding on who will form that new cabinet around him an m.p. i was speaking to recently told me it was expected that it will not only be a government of many technocrats but also a rather small gathering around him as well that would be with the intention of

creating a more streamlined more it effective government who is able to push through these are very serious reforms and can then actually have some of these achievements that have been so long awaited for in the country of course these reforms long promised and we failed to see them be delivered safer but he faces an absolutely huge challenge ahead of him with the feeling amongst the people in italy is certainly that with silvio berlusconi resigned as prime minister with mary monti and now at the helm that it's really at least dance a chance but certainly no one's assuming that this is going to be a quick fix to the very serious problems that the country still faces and of course is one thing to pass these measures and it's one thing to now see a caretaker government in the process of being formed and these decisions have happened very quickly or has to be said this weekend but of course they have absolutely desperate right now to send the message that they are able to get

a grasp on the very serious situation in the country but there's still a lot to be done and these reforms actually have to be implemented and that's going to take years before we see the results of that that you're going to need. democratic legitimacy he going to need support and already there are questions about whether mario monti's going to be able to gain that support in parliament because he's going to need that to push through these measures that's going to be very very important in the coming days and weeks also whether he's going to be able to get across that the public supports as well because they're the ones he face these very painful austerity measures via eighty hikes pension ca's job cuts all things that a lot of economists i've spoken to said not of course conducive to goodness which is exactly what the country needs right now he's a very well respected economist in the country he's certainly going to be watching very very closely the man that a lot of people think is the right person to guide the country through

a very tough time but as he said the task ahead of him is absolutely huge is nickname here is super mario and everyone's going to be certainly hoping he's going to live up to that and he will need to deal with the challenges that lie ahead investment advisor patrick young says that unless they are take serious action no amount of power shifting will help it solve its problems. i think the real problem here is the idea that suddenly overnight because we change the brand in the name of the man who's i mean 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 what may because the markets have lost faith not just in italy but in fact in europe's so-called political leadership who are doing anything but leading 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 in the euro itself is probably going to implode by the end of the ear perhaps even the end of this month on lest we see some serious action. thousands of people took over central london on wednesday to protest against a three fold rise and university tuition fees and public spending cuts demonstrators chanted angry slogans while around four thousand police officers were deployed along the route organizers plan to link up with an existing occupy london attempt 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 peaceful there were reports of officers being authorized to use rubber bullets to 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 made to 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 and increase that the level of distrust and the level of fear actually of the police it would have been that and they have done that and that's a terrible terrible thing no one on in their right mind could 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. to syria now where hundreds of thousands of government supporters have rallied in cities across the country angered at syria's suspension from the arab league damascus has since called for an emergency meeting of the organization and in an attempt to reverse the decision the league decided to suspend damascus in an attempt to force president assad to implement a peace plan to end the deadly unrest meanwhile dozens more people have reportedly

been killed across the country on sunday in the latest wave of crackdowns on anti-government protests this comes as the head of russia's orthodox church visits the country in a bid to bring an end to the bloodshed author and journalist tom see things the conflict in syria is being fueled from abroad and could drag on for some time. many syrian soldiers have died in the conflict they don't normally report but here they just say civilians where are they getting the weapons from looking at martin exhibiting in the dubai said profits are up they said profits are very good in the middle east at the moment what i think i fear many analysts may be feeling 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 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 was advised its citizens to

leave syria to turkey 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. and remember you can always find more stories on our website here's a glimpse of what else you'll find at r.t. dot com. the man delved into europe's last dictator turns against flash mob spell of russian leader alexander lukashenko takes a tough stance on freedom of assembly. plus you can find a report by our close up team that traveled to russia's black sea coast to see how the popular resort is attracting growing numbers of daring water sports fans that's all on our web page our to you dot com.

i 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 aside the allegations blaming the u.s. for putting pressure on the international atomic energy agency iranian lawmakers are now calling for review of the country's cooperation with the agency iranian political political scientist saeed mohammad marandi says the i.a.e.a.'s findings are biased and deeply flawed. the whole report itself it's based on forged documents there is absolutely nothing new in there for all 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 toward trying to 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 all the documents go back to two thousand and four and the previous years all have been refuted in the past the united states has never provided the i.a.e.a. with the documents this shows that this is basically an attempt to create. pressure and to move public opinion against iran. police are investigating fresh clashes in northern kosovo which resulted in a serbian man's death and two injuries gunfire broke out during a fight between ethnic albanians and serbs along the serb kosovo border late on

wednesday earlier that day nato peacekeepers in the area used tear gas to quell resistance as they tried to dismantle serb. the u.n. secretary general says the tension has been caused by kosovo's attempts to extend its control over border crossings in the search dominated area political analyst alexander pollitz 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 controlled government in prishtina and they're doing it openly in spite of their mandate from the un which is supposed to be a peacekeeping then they to keep to the warring sides separated this is an aggressive show of force i mean they're acting like an occupier he said of the peacekeepers they're behind the crisis in greece they're behind the crisis in iran what we're seeing right now is the sowing of the new world disorder and serbia is one of the flashpoints. now to some other stories from across the world

a powerful explosion has killed six people in northwest pakistan the bomb was placed in a car left on attended in the khyber province near the afghan border no one has so far claimed responsibility but officials have blamed previous violence in the area on taliban and islamised militants this comes just a day after a dozen people died during a gunfight and mortar attack in the same region. in portland police have surrounded occupy protesters in the central park after they defied orders to disperse officers used their tones and threatened arrest if the demonstrators failed to comply the protests are part of the larger movement which is protesting social and economic inequality and corporate greed in america and around the world . russia has ushered in a new era of energy security for western europe with the launch of the north stream pipeline it's now pumping russian gas directly to germany ruling out any rows with

transit countries which had previously left european consumers out in the cold artie's daniel bushell watched as the receiving end of the pipeline was unveiled. the wheel of fortune turns in europe's favor e.u. leaders hailed russia's first of a route that skirts tricky transit nations better routes and ukraine with the gas rich middle east also on stable energy chief say the project's a boon in several ways nothing will bring additional capacity that brings a very important. constituency off the right or with good and he's very travelled the world. he said in a 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 ten lists that the world's longest subsea gas route was doomed to failure. this is

a pipeline they said couldn't be built it's too long too expensive and take nuclear they said it was impossible that it's happened think experts is down to russian engineering brilliance. with technical. design off the pipeline which is i think the best pipeline we have. for gas from what evolved 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. debt crisis and supply can't keep up with predicted demand gazprom given the strongest hint so far the third line could also be built mean that if i will add all the capacity of existing against your show by plenty still not enough expansion or not steady what will be discussed 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 hope nord stream will make the two sides friendly . we are trying to bring russia closer to europe even integrate europe and russia into a common energy space and therefore this space will be successful then we can think about creating an economic space free trade zone as the first guest began to float optimistic leaders were all smiles the next few months will show we streams really the stilts we knew we were between the e.u. and russia well just another point dream don't you wish you all to see in germany a 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 tonsil biskra probe will crash back to earth having never even reached its goal artie's tom barton reports from the baikonur launch station. hopes were

high when the phobos rocket was launched from the cosmodrome here in baikonur in kazakstan it was the first interplanetary mission russia 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 the boost stage of the rocket went ok it went off into the over it's over 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 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 they predicted date given at the moment is the twenty

sixth of november as earth's gravitational field slowly pulls the the spacecraft back into the atmosphere the upper atmosphere is very turbulent and that was going to throw the rocket around as it comes back but eventually it's going to have to land somewhere the hopes are that it will land somewhere in the sea but believe that we or some kind of. law of cause. maybe some system social so busy this week which we shall pay attention to who the quality of work or approaches because. the species is really complex who will not be so goes back to sometimes where you tiny. piece of metal can be a quarter so that for you the whole rock the rocket is carrying about ten tons of

very toxic and highly flammable fuel. and there's also a small amount of radioactive material in the equipment on board the chances of it landing on a populated area are very small and so are the chances that it will cause any harm but the chance is there and that's what experts in mission control are trying to avoid. and i'll be back with a recap of this week's top stories and today's headlines in just a few minutes don't go away.

from los angeles to chicago to birmingham twenty trauma centers have closed since two thousand seven hundred one is not enough in-patient beds not enough urgency department beds and not enough nurses commandoes that to take care of all the people who are the only real health care system that we have in the city of los angeles is the los angeles fire department in fact when i started my venture is a firefighter i didn't want to do your mass so i started out going to just do firefighting it's about eighty two percent of what we do the for the problem this medical had to rescue a couple weeks ago waited for hours for big i've waited sometimes three hours but i wouldn't say same francis in lynnwood for four hours and fifty minutes standing against a wall with patients and we have

a federal law that mandates that you can't turn no one away who seeks care in an emergency room. we have the most expensive health care system in the world and it's probably valued the least. oh sure is the same or different and there's a huge decision on the mark when is it the show's over in your united nations nuclear watchdog the i.a.e.a. claims of a new report that iran is moving ever. have passed the hours thank you for joining us here is a quick look at your headlines the f.x. summit in hawaii sees asia and the pacific rim is most powerful economies start

work on a possible game changing free trade zone this as tensions rose between beijing and washington which some analysts put down to the point scoring ahead of next year's u.s. presidential election. the prime ministers of both italy and greece fall and new governments are appointed as their country's drown and debt mario monti has taken over in italy and lucas papademos and greece both are likely to head up tough technocratic governments and implement unpopular economic reforms. plus a un report claims around might be seeking to obtain a nuclear weapon but talk grand slams the allegations as a u.s. backed smear campaign iranian lawmakers are now can reconsidering their country's cooperation with the i.a.e.a. which they're calling a disappointment. with las paramedics at full stretch it seems the city's firefighters are now the medical first responders our next report explains why.