we want to 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 treat 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 so 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 at 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 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 kind of 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 start working on this pact a 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 flaws of that path 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 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 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. a lot of that is a structural problem in in the us you have high wages. certain protection

sentiments from from different sectors of the economy and and it makes it hard to compete on a worldwide market i say i attribute a lot of that naked 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 recognized that inviting chinese investments 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 is actually against our own 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 come. 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 it 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 of in florida goods drop and domestic companies also grow quicker with foreign markets opening up. for workers of these metallurgical company it all looks like a win win situation their most recent project is the north stream pipeline should they enter international markets they'll face very little competition. and this is raw so much the largest plant in russia south producing harvested rushers is order

book is food for months ahead and workers look inspired. but the hat of the company has a rather different outlook to that of the w t o cheerleaders our oil and gas will be in demand even without entering the 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. out there as 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 opened

a 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 agriculture 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 with a reduction of customs tariffs and trade barriers to a more level playing field across international markets exceeding the grouch over r t. 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 for 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 artie's sarah firth brings us the latest from rome. for those of you feeling bad about the start of another working week on monday spare a thought for the former commissioner and mary a month 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 of 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 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 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 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 and with mary monti 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 happen very quickly or has to be said 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 we see the results of that that you're going to need. democratic legitimacy you're going to need support and 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 across that the public supports as well because they're the ones he face these very painful austerity measures the v. eighty hikes pension cuz job cuts all things that a lot of economists i've spoken to said not of course conducive to good use 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 adviser 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 change the brand and the name of the man who's coming over the door of the office of prime minister we suddenly get a miraculous change in italy and the truth is italy has a huge amount of debt they need to sell that debt in the very near future in order to manage to ensure that they can pay the salaries of teachers and other members of the public service and ultimately it's going to be very difficult come what may because the markets have lost faith not just 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 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 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 in 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 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 that was allowed in this country. what the announcement that was my incredibly provocative announcement that was made that

there's going to be rubber bullets in preparation for this demonstration is absolutely outrageous i mean if anything is likely to increase the level of tension and increase 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 die calm the police the only role the police 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 roman abramovich and their continued legal drama playing out over a six point five billion dollars claim. 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 the decision to leave 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 the 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 there in journalist afshin rattansi thinks 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 that civilians where are they getting the weapons from looking at martin exhibiting in the dubai said the profits are up they said profits a very good in the middle east at the moment what i think i fear and 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 who 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 as a standard as advising its own citizens to leave syria to turkey is playing a game here and 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. a report by the un's atomic watchdog has heightened fears this week that iran could be developing a nuclear weapon israel is now calling on the international community to act despite being an undeclared nuclear power itself but russia is stressing the need for caution over what appears to be an inconclusive report iran's brushing the allegations aside blaming the u.s. for putting pressure on the international atomic energy agency iranian lawmakers

are now calling for a view of the country's cooperation with the agency iranian paul 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 the or 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. road 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 can 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 where in reality all the documents go back to two thousand and four and the previous years all of been

refuted in the past the united states has never provided the 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 liftoff 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 highest sets but this launch follows a string of problems for russian space agency and august and unmanned to progress supply vessel crashed back to earth shortly after takeoff and more recently the loss of contact with the pole based grunt mars probe will be live at the baikonur cosmodrome at eight fourteen moscow time for this morning's launch don't miss it. and remember you can always find more stories on our web site here's a glimpse of what else you'll find at our two dot com. the man dubbed europe's last

dictator turns against flash mobs the russian leader alex out of the question 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 on our web page at our t.v. dot com. police are investigating fresh clashes in northern kosovo which resulted in a serbian man's death and two injuries the 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 kosovo's attempts to extend its control over the border crossings and the serb dominated area political analyst alexander pov it believes there's a bigger picture behind nato's actions. they've been doing it for years now and they've broken their mandate actually they're doing the job of the albanian control government 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 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 sawing of the new world disorder and serbia is one of the flashpoints. the republic of south the setia has taken to the polls in its first presidential election since again 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 in a totally b b b loaf 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 has 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. in portland police have surrounded occupy protesters in a central park after they defied orders to disperse officers use the tongs 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 have completed a massive operation to clear rio de janeiro's largest slum of drug gangs the rossini a shanty town controlled in parts by a 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 two thousand and fourteen football world cup and the twenty sixteen olympics. 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 rallies with transit countries which had previously left european consumers out in the colt 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 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 boon in several ways nothing nothing will bring admission and get us into that brings a very important admission the security of the rifle with that and he's very travelled the world. he said in handcuffs securely 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 the technical. design off the pipeline

which is i think the best pipeline we have. for gas from a lot of our 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 that the third line could also be built will mean that if i will add all the capacity of existing and future by both is still not enough expansion not to study what will be discussed but is so thick some 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 integrates europe

and russia into a common energy space and therefore this is a space we'll be successful that we can think about creating and common economic space and 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 stoltz of a new era between the e.u. would russia well just another point during the new bush altie in germany. and i'll be back with a recap of this week's top stories in today's headlines in just a few minutes stay with us.

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a possible changing free trade zone this sounds tensions rose between beijing and washington which some analysts put down to 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 in debt mario monti has taken over in italy and lucas papademos and greeks both are likely to head up tough technocratic governments and implement popular economic reforms. plus a un report claims around might be seeking to obtain a nuclear weapon but slams the allegations as if u.s. backed smear campaign iranian lawmakers are now reconsidering their country's cooperation with the way which they are calling a disappointing. next we have an r t special report for you this time we discover the magic of one of russia's underwater sea reserves don't go away.