returns from the. latest news on the week's top stories on our t.v.'s the apec summit in hawaii asia pacific grimm's most powerful economies start work on a possible game changing free trade zone. the prime ministers of both italy and greece fall and new governments are appointed as their country's drown in debt. plus a un report claims around could be seeking to obtain a nuclear weapon but tapper and slams the allegations as a u.s. backed smear campaign. very warm welcome to you on karen cherokee the creation of

a landmark free trade zone dominated talks at this year's apec summit which brings together the leaders of asian and pacific rim countries barack obama hosted the get together in hawaii and met up with to meet the need video to turn over some pretty hot topics artie's honest lassitude kind of brings us more from honolulu. the final day of the apec summit is a two day gathering here in honolulu and the state is really bringing the most important meeting of the whole affair is one the twenty one economies get together to sit down around a big table around table for discussion on the topics that they're here is that they're really here for is the treaty 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 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 there 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's likely to address one of the key meetings of course was the bilateral talks between the russian and american presidents where they discussed like 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 thousand nine hundred 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 plan to make sure that iran follows its 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 search working on this transpacific plan it's interesting that the united states has been trying to get more countries to join like you mention 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 those u.s. plans are a little too ambitious because one of the mean flaws all of that packed into question would include basically a need for seat owned companies who are get subsidies from the government to be on the sea level really as private companies and since so many industries in china are run by. sort of feet 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 of 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 cooed 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 is going on a steadily weakening trend for quite a few years i would say since the end of the bush administration and beginning of

obama administration why because we're printing more and more dollar bills and we're the only country that has that ability and privily to print more money when we need to and natural consequence of that of course is that we can ng dollar as far as being competitive or not being come i think. a lot of that is a structural problem in in the us you have highways it is. certain protection sentiments from different sectors of the economy and that makes it hard to compete on a worldwide market i say i attribute a lot of that make it to the mistake all it takes to run up to the two thousand and twelve presidential election it's really unfortunate because if they see it differently they could it was recognized that inviting chinese investors into the

u.s. would be good for the u.s. would be it would be helpful to the u.s. local economy to be so i don't welcoming and so hostile to chinese investment it's actually against our own interests they're all seems are trying to outdo each other in the anti chairman just going. the way i see it though i think this is a the usual cyclical run up until we've had a presidential election and everything will be back to reality after that and things are. those talks at the apec summit put the finishing touches on russia's ascension to the world trade organization expected next year experts have long to be added whether membership will help diversify and strengthen the russian economy or not artie's it up but it breaks down the arguments. for the person on the street w g a 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 informative goods drop and the mass to companies also grow quicker with foreign markets opening up. the workers of these metallurgical company it all looks like a win win situation their most recent project is the north stream pipeline should 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 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. cio cheerleader's our oil and gas will be in demand even without entering the. well agriculture. group called chu will be among the hardest hit sectors but experts say the domestic automotive industry will be the

one to undergo he will. the troubled water giant up the ass 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 guess is the government's favorite child but not all car makers in russia are cherished this used to be a riving plant of must reach open the 1930's most successful years what it is and sixty's when hundreds of thousands of my screech chorus 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 a loss making car produces and more screechy was passed out the only way to avoid the collapse of yet another industrial giant experts say is to use the

transition period after joining the w chair wisely closely entry to the governor doesn't mean you instantly have to drop all systems tires and comply straight away because the 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 more level playing field across international markets you've seen the gretsch over archie. coming up full stream ahead to join the w t o russia opens up 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 and furious

over education cuts and a tripling of tuition fees. also in syria hundreds of thousands come out in support of the government after damascus is banned from the arab league failing to end the deadly unrest in the country. mariel 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 archies sarah firth brings us the latest from rome. if there is of you feeling bad about the start of another working week on monday spare a thought the former aide commissioner merriman say he's 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 say not your usual job description certainly but everyone very much hoping 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's currently deciding on who will form that new cabinet around an m.p. i was speaking to recently told me it was expected that it will not only be a government of mainly technocrats but also a rather small gathering around him as well that would be with the intention of creating a more streamlined more 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 because these reforms long promised and we fail to see them be delivered safer but he faces an absolutely huge challenge ahead of him with the feeling amongst the people in it's leigh is certainly with silvio berlusconi resigned as prime minister and with mary monti now

at the helm the italy lead stands a chance 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 caretaker government in the process of being formed needs to stations have happen very quickly there has to be step this weekend but of course 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 you see the results of that that you're going to me. democratic legitimacy he gains needs to porton already there are questions about whether marymount he'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

the public support as well because they're the ones he face these very painful austerity measures the eighty hikes pension ca's job cuts all things that a lot of economists i spoke and he said not of course conducive to good which is exactly what the country needs right now months he's a very well respected economist in the country he's certainly going to be watched very very closely as 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 stephen mariano 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 the eurozone take serious action no amount of power shifting will help solve its problems. i think the real problem here is the idea that suddenly overnight because we changed the brand and

the name of the man who's taking 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 to what may because the markets have lost faith not just in italy but in fact in europe so-called political leadership who are doing anything but 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 that's a disaster for everybody the euro itself is probably going to implode by the end of the year perhaps even the end of this month unless we see some serious action. thousands of people took over central london on wednesday to protest against a three fold rise in university tuition fees and public spending cuts demonstrators chanted angry slogans while around four thousand police officers were to court

along the route organizers plan 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 peaceful 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 i was allowed in this country. what the announcement that was my the incredibly provocative announcement that was made that there's going to be rubber bullets in preparation for this demonstration is absolutely outrageous i mean if anything is likely to increase the level of tension increase that the level of distrust and the level of fear actually of the police it would have been done and they have done that and that's a terrible terrible thing no one in their right mind could possibly say that is about trying to keep the dike on the police the only role that we should be playing

is to facilitate the rights to peaceful protests. also in the spotlight in london the super rich locked in legal combat. in the next hour outspoken bodies because of ski and chelsea football club owner of a mortgage and their continued legal drama playing out over a six point five billion dollars plane. 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 in an attempt to reverse their decision to leave decided to suspend damascus in an attempt to force president assad to implement at these plants and the deadly unrest meanwhile dozens more people have reportedly been killed across the country on sunday in the latest wave of crackdowns on the anti-government protests this comes as the head of russia's orthodox church this is the country and a bid to bring an end to what out there in journalist afshin rattansi thinks the

conflict in syria has been fueled from abroad and could drag on for some time. many syrian soldiers have died in the cause of the good don't normally report but here they just say civilians where are they getting the weapons from. exhibiting in the dubai. profits are up they said profits a very good in the middle east at the moment but i think i fear what 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 staff because advisory its citizens to leave syria to turkey game here to the media is playing a massive game because ours television station al-jazeera very obviously wanting

the four of us out at the moment and the western media to. 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 a declared 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 iranian lawmakers are now calling for a view of the country's cooperation with the agency iranian political scientist saeed mohammad marandi says the i.a.e.a. is findings are biased and deeply flawed the whole report itself it's based on forged documents there is absolutely nothing new in the north all the documents are from the year two thousand and four and before there is a general trend to try to put iran in

a corner toward the corner iran if you recall just a few weeks ago the americans made outrageous accusations about a murder plot of this sort of to the united states no one in the world believed it because it was so absurd this now comes right after this report if you if you look at the western media the corporate media they're all saying that this is new information that proves that iran is trying to produce a nuclear weapon 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 i with the documents this shows that this is basically an attempt to create. pressure and to to move public opinion against iran. a three man crew bound for the international space station are just hours away from a lift off from the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan this is the first female flight after the u.s. retired its space shuttle program russia is now the only nation capable of taking

crews to the i assess but this launch follows a string of problems for russia's space agency and all this in an unmanned progress supply vessel crashed back to earth shortly after takeoff and more recently the loss of contact with the pole that sprint mars probe will be live at the baikonur cosmodrome at eight fourteen moscow time for this morning's large don't miss it. and remember you can always find more stories on our website here's a glimpse of what else you'll find at archie dot com. the man dubbed europe's last dictator turns against flash mobs well a russian leader alex out of the question takes a tough stance on freedom of assembly. plus you can find a report by our of 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 at r.t.e. dot com.

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 use tear gas to quote resistance as they try to dismantle a sort of barricade the u.n. secretary general says the tension has been caused by coal symbols attempts to expand its control over the border crossings and the serb dominated area political analyst alexander cobbett believes there's a bigger picture behind nato as 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 mandate to keep to the warring sides separated this is an aggressive show of force the way they're acting like an occupier he said of the peacekeepers they are behind the crisis in greece they're behind the crisis in iran what we're seeing right now is the slowing of the new world disorder and serbia is one of the flashpoints. the republic of south associate has taken to the polls in its first presidential election since it gained international recognition in two thousand and eight however no winner has been determined in the first round of the vote two candidates will now go through to a runoff vote the current emergencies minister. maybe loath and former education minister. both gained around twenty four percent of the poll the next round is scheduled to take place in two weeks time. now to some other stories from across the world a powerful explosion house killed six people in northwest pakistan

a bomb was placed in a car left unattended in the khyber province near the afghan border no one has so far claimed responsibility but officials have blamed previous violence in that 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. and portland police have surrounded occupy protesters in a central park after they defied orders to disperse officers used for tolerance and threatened arrest if the demonstrators failed to comply with the protests are part of the larger movement which is protesting social and economic inequality and corporate greed in america and around the world. brazilian police say they've completed a massive operation to clear rio de janeiro's largest slum of drug gangs the racine a shanty town controlled in parts of the local criminal groups is officially home to seventy thousand people although some estimates say that 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. russia has ushered in a new era of energy security progress in europe with the launch of the north stream pipeline it's now pumping russian gas directly to germany ruling out any rails with transit countries which had previously left european consumers out in the court 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 bill routes and ukraine with the gas rich middle east also unstable energy chief say the project's a boon in several ways nothing not only brings action and give us a call back to. a very important idea for the security of the frightful with that and he's there we have

a world. peace agreement of security through these a very essential but this security comes with a hefty price tag the project cost some eight billion euro in fact north stream operator gears prom was told by many took home a list that the world's longest subsidy guess route was doomed to failure this is a park like this it couldn't be built it's too long too expensive and technically it is that it was impossible that it's happened think experts is built for russian engineering brilliance their use that technique will. design off the pipeline which is i think the best pipeline we have. for gas front porch in the nordstrom's first line has started successfully and the second goes operational in twenty twelve together they can hit twenty six million homes a year but more is needed yes use has jumped even through the current e.u. debt crisis and supply call to keep up with predicted demand has given the

strongest him so for the third line could also be built will mean that the. well at all the capacity of existing and future by both is still not enough expansion or last name will be discussed later so some even call this project the first step to take russia into the e.u. single market there are those who hold north stream will make the two sides friendlier. we are trying. to tell europe even europe and russia into a common energy space and if this is space. be successful that we can think about creating a common economic space free trade zone as the first gas began to flow optimistic leaders were all smiles the next few months will show with new streams really the stalls of a new era between the e.u. and russia or just another point during the new bushel altie in germany. and i'll

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