in defense. moscow blamed syria's increasing international isolation on western plans to bring about regime change. syria's hour of the day visit but president assad says the united states and its allies call for tougher action to bring about the downfall of the syrian leader. turning up the heat for us on china strange tough language over trade and currency issues such as the apec summit comes to a close and who won. three two one. back in business the crew of three heads to the international space station on a russian soyuz it comes three months from the crash of

a similar unmanned rocket that happened shortly after that. just after four pm on monday here in moscow this is on it's here with me. but u.s. and its allies are more interested in regime change in syria than a peaceful solution to the rest that's according to the kremlin russian foreign minister says that western countries are trying to stir up syria's opposition to president bashar al assad that's going to let us know there's a developing story with. moscow has been trying to mediate a peace deal in syria from months now what is the kremlin to think that western countries are pulling in the other direction. well circular for office said in a statement expressing russia's dismay at the decision to suspend syria from the

arab league he said that's with russia's help and advice president assad has been implementing the reforms that were put forward by the arab league in a meeting on the second of november peace deal a deal to try to broker peace in the air in the syrian conflict. so he left office said this the decision to suspend syria from the arab league is counterproductive to a peace deal saying that the this decision really sends a message to the syrian opposition to to continue fighting against president assad and the pro government forces in syria not getting them to the table to discuss a peaceful resolution to this now russia has tried to mediate in the past and as often it serves his members representatives from both the syrian leadership and the syrian opposition have been here in moscow for talks and in fact in the next couple

of days a senior syrian opposition member will be here in the russian capital for further talks to try and bring about that peaceful solution. now what we are hearing from love over some quite strong words suggesting a specter of a closely image of western the shadowy image so a big part of western influence towards the decision on the towards the decision to suspend syria from the arab league something that russia does not want to see they are against that decision which is expected to be rubber stamped in an emergency meeting from the arab league on wednesday. less you want to see a continuation of their policy of trying to find a peaceful solution to the situation in syria. as your measuring a moment ago about the arab league voting to suspend syria from the organization damascus in turn then invited the arab league and all sorts of observers to the country what comes next doesn't happen in the two sides just console this dispute

out. well it's a tricky situation at the moment what we're seeing is wednesday we're expecting to see that rubber stamp on the decision to suspend syria from the arab league now the last nation to be suspended from the arab league libya and of course that ended up resulted in the outside military intervention something that russia again was opposed to any military intervention that went far beyond the parameters that were laid out in u.n. resolutions something that russia voiced strong opposition to wards and when it came to the chance of imposing a u.n. resolution on syria russia abstaining from not in blocking that station from going through. now. what we have seen is further sanctions being put forward from outside of the hour of the arab league the e.u. has suggested they want to see further sanctions also they want to see we expect to see this go through very shortly the freezing of assets of

a team senior members of assad's government senior living in syria and i think it's on. the personnel political personnel the military personnel we're also seeing the reaction from the syrian people to these tens of thousands out only streets of damascus that of course syria protesting against this decision to suspend syria from the arab league some of those protests taking place outside the embassies of saudi arabia and qatar two nations which voted to suspend syria from from the league now we see anger from the syrians in two thousand as this decision from the decision to suspend them from the arab league and to be able to find a peaceful solution to put an end to this conflict that's going on for eight months now with an estimated three thousand five hundred people being killed during its. life. thank you. get some more perspective on the sort of following story from independent where journalist james corbet are joining us now live. thank you for

coming on the program today libya was also kicked out of the arab league just before it was targeted by nato airstrikes on how far we are from seeing the same happen to syria a lot of parallels are being drawn at this point. well given the incredible diplomatic and political ramifications of this and i think we can't be too far from seeing similar type situation playing out as what played out in libya and i think it's absolutely it's almost inconceivable now to really see how assad can be in power given the circumstances and given the as i say two critical diplomatic ramifications of this with with all of the arab league nations no i'm assuming that this is a rubber stamp that and as we believe it will be this decision will mean the withdrawing of that important to the american embassy officials from damascus which really does deal legitimize the government there in a major way so it's almost inconceivable to see how assad would be able to stay on

in power in an even greater if we take a broader picture here when it comes to a tunisia egypt and libya we've seen islamic forces are strengthening their positions in those post revolution countries how likely is that you think happened in syria well i think that would have to be one of the the likely outcomes of this given the destabilization of the regime which of course has tried to maintain a socialist secular state in that country for a long time to see the destabilization of that one would assume that the long repressed sunni majority in the country seem power which would try to assert more of an islamic influence over the. country so one would assume that would be a logical consequence of what we see people you know that russia and china have already vetoed a u.n. security council resolution that it damascus what do you think the enemies of president assad really need. to bring him down. certainly not and i think iraq would be the obvious parallel in that regard and certainly no u.n.

mandate was that was necessary in that regard because. a coalition of the willing or whatever term can be invented can be invented in order to provide some sort of justification so i think we very much could see a similar thing play out here and of course the arab league suspension would be would be i have no doubt would be offered as one justification for that type of move by the west has been a very selective and it starts on syria even when thousands rally in support of president assad the west still wants regime change what do you think is happening to respecting the aspirations of the syrian people we're godless of what those aspirations may be it seems that you seem to be perhaps a few power players here dictating the final outcome of events well that's exactly right and i don't think i think all this does is speak to the light of the notion that there was ever any consideration for what the people of syria really want certainly we see what we see that playing out right now with syria and with the thousands of people who are protesting and in favor of the assad government exactly

as we saw earlier this summer we saw hundreds of thousands of potentially even more protesting in tripoli in support of the government obviously had no effect on the rhetoric that was taking place in the west and we see this reflected in the coverage of these events in western mean stream sources in the last few days you can see pictures of the thousands of people who are demonstrating in favor of the assad government alongside stories about how the government is repressing killing its citizens so the disconnect is there but obviously the rhetoric is just not going to reflect on in any way what i mean we have seen reports over the past week or so from from people on the ground it about saying tens of thousands of people are showing up to support president assad. it actually gets flipped on the on the western media they say five hundred thousand of they're protesting against assad it certainly does seem to be a rather interesting mix coming from east and west media outlets that russia has been actively trying to mediate peace in syria for months what sort of impact do

you. international peace efforts really make a bad day well one would hope that there would be something that could be accomplished here but as i say i don't i really don't see a way for assad the assad government to me to mean its current. foothold clutch on the country given the way that things are unfolding. certainly russian or chinese overture is a net area would be i suppose helpful in this regard but i certainly don't know if it's going to make any fundamental difference in the same way that no amount of protest over what was taking place in libya really seem to be a real good agenda and we tend to keep going back to libya as the example but i think it's the obvious that analogue to what we see happening right now in syria and unfortunately if that's the case i think there is nothing not even facts that our leader exposed about a lot of the things that have been said in the run up to this are false like what was the case in libya i don't think that would even be real the agenda as it seems

to be playing out right now and you know with is there a link suspension i think we see a dangerous new moment where we really are and perhaps an even a military intervention it's definitely on the table you know you bring in the issue of military intervention it's interesting here because with allegations of western countries fanning the flames in syria there are some people that say well of iraq at oil and libya had oil what does syria have that could so in some way entice western powers to get involved or is it not necessarily an issue of mineral wealth but have the regional advantages that. i would see it tends to be geo strategic and regional and i continue to posit that the syrian intervention if it if it should come would be seen i think most obviously in a type of play on iran perhaps the pre-strike on iran because obviously the destabilization of the syrian regime would further isolate iran which is which is already surrounded by nato forces if you actually look at the map but of course

this would cut off its land for. to lebanon which would be absolutely a very key loss of a key partner for the government so i think the syrian intervention would have to be seen in the context of a greater preparation for an attack on iran which of course we've seen the rhetoric going up i'm quite a bit in the last few weeks very interesting how you bring in the iran angle about last question the independent journalist who can cope with all the time we have for today thank you thank you. without to have your company today. a divided europe. first of the germans to keep on going with. you have been badly punished that's not a you know as a new government takeover in greece or italy some question whether they'll have the interests of ordinary people at heart. and both. military style discipline will soon be introduced in some u.k. schools to straighten out unruly pupils but a new front opens up in a debate with

a warning it could be a step too far. that's the hosting a torch has been passed from hawaii to russia for next year's apec summit some breakthroughs have been made by the twenty one asian pacific nations but at the same time the u.s. has turned up the heat on its biggest economic rival china this all going down at the weekend's gathering president obama of ageing for his trade in currency practices the u.s. has complained china is keeping its currency artificially weak to give an advantage to exporters which only says that the yuan has to rise gradually to avoid harming the economy is the latest rift between the two countries are things on avoid explains the differences that have piled up between washington and beijing. if there is any us state where the occupy movement has little chance it's probably hard why despite the high concentration of politicians and wall street betwixt socializing at the apec summit the only place people are willing to occupy here are

now as the beach is this one exception these protestors are against greed and social injustice they're against economic inequality and they are against china. i was who incidentally the mood at the podium was similar to look hostile i think we can benefit from trade with china and i want certainly continue cultivating a. constructive relationship with the trial his government. but we're going to continue to be firm in insisting that they operate by the same rules that. everybody else rules the rules and again rules as a country that's been ruling the roost for decades the united states has never been shy of policing others ice china's g.d.p. continues adding nine percent a year against that and

a half percent growth in the u.s. the reprimand seems to be internally driven comportment he's one of the top ballet you think that china will devolve also reflected in the country's political and economic policies it's not that china doesn't play by the rules the factory by the opposite but the united states seems to have an issue with is that increasingly china rules and are they pretty much washington would prefer to keep it out as the u.s. president hailed his new free trade asia pacific pact as a win win trade in the region some in china took it as a predator effort to change rules. free trade and to be. in the eyes of the beholder. it's free for you but protection provided that i get the. right precious. industries. well. so it's always good lerma. as the euro crisis continues metastasizing

throughout the world and china is asked to shoulder the load many analysts say the west should keep in mind its old adage about he who pays the piper china is really in the driver's seat in many respects and this is coming at an awkward time for the united states because the united states is clearly a declining power at the same time and is having trouble adjusting to what that means many chinese proverbs are difficult to translate into english if those about money usually have exactly equivalent one of them is money makes the world go round the concept experience for. milliards to washington and progressively so to beijing some of my cars at the apec summit in honolulu no doubt is coming to you live from moscow now italy's new prime minister mario monti has begun work on forming a new technocrat government to tackle the country's towering debt and economist and a former edu commissioner he now has to implement structural economic reforms to pull italy out of its financial chaos our correspondent sara firth now takes

a look at whether a new man at the top can make a difference for the eurozone. it was never going to be easy to put it that night year at seventeen countries of which are now under one currency fierce criticism we missed the beginning of a dishonest and downright dangerous journey president. to revive the e.u. constitution but to do it in such a way that you would have avoided referendums in key member states some might now be wishing they'd heeded the warnings to one after another the member states begin to wobble italy's been the latest country to come under scrutiny we have been witnessing in the last. growing pressure from europe and i'm talking in particular from france and germany hardly the u.k. certainly the european parliament and the commission is going to start but the crisis is say first the leaders of greece and italy are placed by people who were

never elected to office their way around brussels here it is totally with berlusconi now god doesn't. painful reforms now need to be implemented to meet he did. for the first time since the crisis began talks have now begun to turn to the possibility of exit from. all the creation of the cool europe countries like germany seem to be leading the way but i think it's not in the best interest of the germans to keep on going with this i think. you have behaved badly we're going to punish that's not a union in the united states of america. badly imagine texas behaving badly where you think obama's going to we're going to kick you out of united states of america no they're not going to be calling sense a bad year we've had a good year inquiry has not gone on missed by struggling countries was this clear that those who even spent less now face

a painful story to measure is being treated like a naughty school child any added to the growing strain. community if it's only now starts to be well so see there will always much more france and especially germany to the times there to say to its present well it's probably different not just to their own countries but for europe as a whole your attentions have not gone on list by the market you punish political leaders it's working their feet and dealing with a crisis the struggling economies like italy and now calls for even breathing mistakes it's really being considered by many the test case for the entire year it fails and it could take down the entire fifth then the question now is whether or not those measures can be where they will see them going the same way as previous measures put forward by european leaders say they are to come up with a convincing. third. another twenty minutes past the hour

here in moscow the u.k. government plans to open a new schools with an army style discipline to control disruptive pupils by the measure was proposed after riots rock london in august but supporters believe it will whip into shape but others think it will just make them worse. reports. as the going gets tough the tough get going army boot camps are the places that are out of line it's this culture of self control the government now wants to bring in to schools so it's calling on the cavalry will former soldiers to sort the front line to the front of the classroom following the riots across the u.k. the government troops into teaching as a way to restore adult authours see who wants to provide more male role models even giving teachers new powers to use physical force as a way to control disruptive pupils it's not

a bad thing for children. if they step this side of the lie they will be punished accordingly if they stay on the right side of the lie. in the confines of the law and they will not be punished it's a line few would decry us with a teacher like this afghans going to be headmaster of the new school where every teacher will be a former soldier uniform inspections and military style roll calls will be the polish there are strict routine and you can maintain discipline for war which is the most high pressured situation you can maintain discipline in a classroom and all them but with corporal punishment now a step closer many fear it will push an already alienated youth further away i think they would start building their own gang as example of the police now behaved towards our kids is to gangs and if you could see the police or a gang it would be the army i think that would become more unruly and is generally

takes in problem peoples the state system chucks out and turns their lives around and calling to teachers here is about finding the right kind of stimulation rather than just cracking the whip they become unruly because they are bored but in this opinion isn't the answer just on its own this is yes but actually making sure to go something at their own level for this sixteen year old that happened to be art he was expelled from school after what he will only refer to as an incident and is still too afraid to be identified back then he was on course to fail all his exams but after just a year passed fourteen a far cry from someone supposedly too disruptive to teach. more discipline for children in schools do you think that would have worked for. really one. class of poor inquisitors not talking districts works. so. there

wouldn't really want to listen when individual attention was the only thing that turned this boy's education around but with a system that prides itself on conformity but battle could be only just beginning i've been it r t london in just a moment is the business news with natasha but for now a successful blast off from the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan sent three astronauts aboard a russian spacecraft on their way to the international space station it's the first launch since a similar unmanned soyuz rocket carrying supplies for the ira crashed about three months ago but is tom martin now picks up the story. launch time with the baikonur cosmodrome that these three men have gone up to join the poets of the international space station but they're late and i'm happy about why it is a risky because you can never eliminate risk altogether that that's the bargain that you make for the privilege of flying humans in space and accomplishing what

they do up there on the twenty fourth of august to supply rockets engines failed on its way up to the i.s.a.'s and it plummeted back to worth with a bang it was a moment but all launches were put on hold the worries about the safety of so those rockets now the only link to the space station crew since the last u.s. shuttle flights but july said this crew of their launch date sent back to us their relatives were especially nice to the to the progress crash what do you think about your husband's launch coming up so soon until it's too difficult it's better not to talk about. the crew themselves though accept the changes as part of the job. because we're upset about the accident of course but every big project has some room for failure unfortunately this is not completely avoidable but we shouldn't try matteis the situation. and so it was the rocket lifted into place its launch

pad we can see the rockets taking off with what's appropriate. what. with deep sighs of relief all watched as the rocket blasted successfully into orbit leaving the crew to experience what you call the rest of us a retreat about. where you can actually get a good view of the earth during the flight and the spacecraft but surely will have time to enjoy it better while the international space station for that view and for man's future in space they say the risk is worth it tom watson. as i promised metatron our business. it's twenty five minutes past four pm here in moscow welcome to the business program italy has no other choice but to exit the euro zone and bring back its

national currency even if this means the collapse of the single currency so says prominent economist new real roubini also known as dr julie. six months these areas are. evenly split in the suburbs it has to be for that reason you can always get smaller i'm sure that it will be it's. one of the more maybe tourist luxury uses for the bulb events one more of that really goes to rights of the eurozone if enough of them to the eurozone but so far at least implies a very troubled euro zone. and let's now take a quick look at the equity markets european indices are shedding their earlier gains on optimism about italy has started building a new government and passes on an austerity budget all about was easing fears over europe's debt crisis italy's borrowing costs into six point four percent on hopes

that economists mario monti will form a strong government. and here in russia the markets are mixed the r.t.s. is losing around half a percent to all the my sex is up just an hour. and here are some of the biggest movers for the day so far beyond the problem and other energy blue chips are positive but move poil is losing about half a percent despite its reported an eighty percent increase in the net profit for the first nine months of the year investors are disappointed by declining production gold continues its last week's losses precious metal is lower. rationale in many of giant new souls third quarter net profit has more than doubled to two hundred ninety million dollars year on year that's after a higher product prices than an appreciation of the ruble helped push its overall revenue but it's first degree c. over his last love you says the leaders and main achievement was a reduction in operating

a financial cost. what we choose the third quarter and we're going to keep this result further it's a holocaust but significant reduction before compare it with the second quarter of a portion to drop in kind of you know processed does not give us a bill it's a tool of choice a much better result look at the second quarter but as you see with that was over the last year a difficult to say what we can still keep to get it done market at the same level and the difference i think what we say in the low costs we went out positions a lot of cost but lowest cost producer scott that see that situation out and that's all from the business team i'll be back here in about fifteen minutes trying it out . on the little.

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