russian foreign minister says that western countries are trying to stir up syria's opposition to topple president bashar al assad let's get the latest on the developing story with our. moscow has been trying to mediate a peace deal in syria from months now why does the kremlin to think that western countries are pulling in the other direction. will circulate through all of us said in a statement expressing russia's dismay at the decision to suspend syria from the arab league he said that 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 a peace deal a deal to try and broker peace in the syrian conflict now. for 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's on 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 has offered its services 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 to bring about that peaceful solution. now what we are hearing from love rather some quite strong words suggesting a specter of a ghostly image of western a shadowy image of western influence towards the decision on the towards the decision to suspend syria from the arab league something new to 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. want to see a continuation of their policy of trying to find a peaceful solution to the situation in syria. as you were mentioning a moment ago about the arab league voting to suspend syria from the organization damascus in turn then invited the arab league. observers to the country what comes next doesn't happen in the two sides to this dispute oh. well it's a tricky situation at the moment what we're seeing is on 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 was libya of course that ended up altered 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 decision from going through. now. what we have seen is further sanctions being put forward from outside of the power of the arab league the e.u. have 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 libyan syrian. 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 across 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 say. spent syria from from the league now we've see

anger from the syrians to this decision from this decision to suspend them from the arab league and do they want to find a peaceful solution to put an end to this conflict that's going on for eight months now that estimated three thousand five hundred people being killed during it. all of a life outside of moscow thank you. get some more perspective on this our developing story from independent web journalist james corbet are joining us now live. i 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 to help far away 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 move 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 almost inconceivable now to really see how assad can maintain

power given the circumstances and given the as i say the incredible diplomatic ramifications of this with with all of the nation's no assuming that this is rubber stamped on as we believe it will be this decision will mean the withdrawing of important diplomatic and embassy officials from damascus which really does 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 any event rate you know 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 that post revolution countries how likely is that you think to happen in syria. well i think that would have to be one of the likely outcomes of this given the destabilization of the regime which of course has tried to maintain a socialist secular state in the country for a long time to see the destabilization of that one would assume that the. a

repressed sunni majority in the country once in power would try to assert more of an islamic influence over the government of that country so one would assume that would be a logical consequence of what we see playing o'regan now russia and china have already vetoed a u.n. security council resolution the dead target damascus what do you think the enemies of president assad really need a u.n. mandate to bring him down. certainly no and i think iraq would be the obvious parallel in that regard certainly no u.n. mandate was it was necessary in that regard because a coalition of the willing or whatever term can be invented can be invented in order to to provide some sort of justification so i think we very much could see a similar thing playing 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 now the west has been a very selective and its stance on syria even when when thousands rally in support of president assad the west still wants regime change what do you think is happened

to respecting the aspirations of the syrian people were 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 plight of the notion that there was ever any consideration for what the people of syria really want certainly we see 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 potentially even more protesting in tripoli in support of the gadhafi government but that obviously had no effect on the rhetoric that was taking place in the west and we see this reflected in mainstream coverage of these events and western mainstream 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 but

obviously the rhetoric is just not going to reflect that in any way so i mean we've seen reports over the past week or so from from people on the ground in damascus saying tens of thousands of people are showing up to support president assad but then it actually gets flipped on the on the western media they say five hundred thousand of protesting against assad it certainly does seem to be a. 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 think an international peace efforts really make at the end of the 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 the assad government to maintain its current. foothold clutch on the country given the way that things are unfolding. certainly russian or chinese overtures in that 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 there's no amount of protest over what was taking place in libya really seem to be real that agenda and we do tend to keep going back to libya as the example but i think it's the obvious analogue to what we see happening right now in syria and and unfortunately if that's the case i think there's nothing not even facts that are later exposed about how a lot of the things that have been said in the run up to this are 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 no with this arab league suspension i think we see a dangerous new moment where we're really and you perhaps an even a military intervention is 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 what iraq had all libya had what does syria have that could some in some way entice western powers to get involved or is it not necessarily an issue of mineral wealth but how

it's a regional advantage is 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 most obviously in a type of play on iran perhaps a pre strike on iran because obviously the destabilization. the syrian regime would further isolate iran which is which is already surrounded by needle forces if you actually look at the map but of course this would cut off its land bridge to lebanon which would be absolutely a very key loss of a key partner for the uk would be no drug government so i think the syrian intervention would have to be seen in the context of the greater preparation for an attack on iran which of course we've seen the rhetoric from that ramping up i'm quite a bit in the last few weeks very interesting how you bring up the iran angle on that last question the independent web journalist james called but that's all the time we have for today thank you thank you. i could have your company today still

have. a divided europe. contest of the germans to keep on going with this i think you know you're right you have been badly we're going to punish that's not a you know as new government takeover in greece italy some question whether they'll have the interest of ordinary people at heart. and books. tough military style discipline will soon be introduced in some u.k. schools to straighten out unruly pupils about a new front opens up in the debate without warning it could be a step too far. as the hosting torch has been passed from hawaii to russia for next year's apec summit some breakthroughs have been made by the twenty one asia 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 aging for his trade and currency practices the u.s. has complained that china is keeping its currency artificially weak to give an

advantage to exporters which only says the the yuan has to rise gradually to avoid harming the economy is the latest rift between the two countries. explains the differences that appalled up between washington and beijing. if there is any us state where the occupy movement has little chance that's probably why despite the high concentration of politicians in wall street big week socializing at the apec summit the only place people are willing to occupy here on mass at the beach is this one exception these protesters are against greed and social injustice they're against economic inequality and they are against china. i mean saddam clearly the mood at the podium was similar to look hostile i think we can benefit from trade with china and i want certainly to continue cultivating a. a constructive relationship with the chinese government but

we're going to continue to be firm in insisting that they operate by the same rules that. everybody else rules rules and again rules as a country that's been ruling the roost for decades the united states has never been shy of policing all others but as china's g.d.p. continues adding nine percent a year against it and a half percent growth in the u.s. the reprimand seems to be internally driven conformities one of the top values in the chinese meal devolved also reflected in the country's political and economic policy that's not that china doesn't play by their rules it's actually quite the opposite what the united states seems to have an issue rip is that increasingly china rules and that they pretty much washington would prefer to keep it. as the u.s. president hailed his new free trade asia pacific pact as a win win to boost trade in the region some in china took it as

a predator effort to change rules made game free trade tend to be. in the eyes of the beholder. it's free for you but protections for me provided that i get to protect my precious. industries that well will. so it's always a dilemma as to how free it is 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 out 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 he had those about money usually have exact equivalents one of them is. money makes the world go

round the concept experience will be familiar to washington and progressively so to beijing it's one of my guards at the apec summit in honolulu. and he is coming to you live from moscow now italy's new prime minister mario monti has begun work on forming a new techno government to tackle the country's towering debt and economist and former e.u. 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 project this year at seventeen countries of which are now under one currency attracted fierce criticism we've witnessed the beginning of a dishonest and downright dangerous german president yeah to revive the constitution but to do it in such a way that you want to avoid referendums it came member states some might now be

wishing they'd heeded the warnings to one after another the member states begin to wobble at least being the latest country to come under scrutiny we have been witnessing in the last long. growing pressure from europe and i'm talking in particular from crohn's and germany hardly the u.k. certainly the european parliament and the commission is going to start but the crisis is safe in the leaders of greece and italy replaced by people who were never elected to office he knew their way around brussels here it is totally with berlusconi now gone he doesn't and painful reforms now need to be implemented to meet tough. for the first time since the crisis began talks have now begun to turn to the possibility of exits from the year or 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 know you have you have behaved badly we're going to punish that's not a union in united states of america. behaved badly imagine taxes behaving badly when you think obama's going to we're going to kick you out of united states of america no they're not going to do the cooking sense a bad year a group had a good year it has not gone on missed by struggling countries lost it's clear that those who have a spend less now face up to painful story to measure is the sense of being treated like a naughty school child added to the growing strain. community if it's only now well so the say there will expose much more france and especially germany to the times there and did must be up to us to say to to express a political leadership not just for their own countries but for europe as a whole your attentions have not gone unnoticed by the financial markets punish political leaders the tracking their feet in dealing with the crisis the struggling

economies like italy and now course not even the napery think the mistakes it's least being considered by many the test case for the entire year you say it fails and it could take down the entire fifth the question now is whether or not those measures can fix the whether we'll see them going the same way as previous measures put forward by european leaders. failed to come up with a convincing. third. or an hour twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow the u.k. government plans to open new schools with an army style boot camp discipline to control disruptive pupils or the measure was proposed after riots rocked london in august supporters believe it will whip unruly teens into shape but others think it will just make them worse bennett reports. as the going gets tough the tough get going army boot camps are the places set out of line it's this culture of self

control the government now wants to bring into schools so it's calling on the cavalry will former soldiers to swap the front line for the front of a classroom following the riots across the u.k. the government for striking 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 to know where they. if they expect their 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 dare cross with a teacher like this afghans going to be headmaster at the new school where every teacher will be a former soldier uniform inspections and military style roll calls but with the polish of a strict routine when you can maintain discipline in the future 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 they've done towards the police now i've seen the police behave towards our kids is to gangs isn't it if you could say the police are a gang it would be the army case the kids i think they would become more unruly this charity takes in problem people's the state system chucks out and turns their lives around according to teachers here it's about finding the right kind of stimulation rather than just cracking the whip they become a ruler because they're bored putting discipline in isn't the answer and just on the tone this is playing 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'll 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 here he 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. really why. so close and boring cause there's no talking it's just shit works so you can focus in the door don't really want to go to do list. individual attention is the only thing that turned this boy's education around but with a system that prides itself on conformant see the battle could be only just beginning i've been it's 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 has 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 crashed about three months ago the artist picks up the story. launch time for the baikonur cosmodrome that these three men have gone up to join their colleagues and the international space station but then late and unhappy about why it is a risky business 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 as 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 soyuz rockets now the only link to the space station crew since the last u.s. shuttle flight in july said this crew of their launch date sent back to their relatives were especially nervous to talk to the progress crush 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 it. the crew themselves though accept the dangers as part of the job just 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 dramatize the situation. and so it was the rock it was lifted into place its launch pad we can see the rocket taking off now and we'll watch the progress. but. with a deep sighs of relief all watched as the rocket blasted successfully into orbit leaving the crew to experience what are all the rest of us a retrieval bout. you can actually get a good view of the earth during the flight and the spacecraft but surely will have time to enjoy the better while on the international space station for that view and

from ams future in space they say the risk is worth it tom bottom. as i promised the pastor now with the 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 from an economist new real roubini also known as dr doom. six congress to resolve them portugal italy spain and so i was about to be for that reason to get all the fiscal and financial difficulty it's. wanted more than me need to address the larger issues it's probably don't want more of them let me go to knights of the

euro zone it's an offer of the notes of the euro zone but so slightly implies a breakup of the eurozone. and let's now take a quick look at the equity markets european indices are shedding their earlier games on optimism about italy has started building a new government and passes on an austerity budget all of that was easing fears over europe's debt crisis italy's borrowing costs going to six point four percent on hopes that economist 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 while the my sex is up just been off. and here are some of the biggest movers for the day so far gazprom and other energy blue chips are positive but new coil 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

orders gold continues its last week's loss and precious metal is lower. russia now many a giant sols 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 its first deputy c.e.o. bill is lost love you have says the quarter is a main achievement was a reduction in operating a financial cost what would you choose to third quarter and we're going to keep this result through other duction of our cost but significant reduction if we compare it with the second quarter of a fortune to drop and how do we know for a system to give us a billet to show a much better result because of the second quarter but as you see with that was over the last year a difficult say what we do still keep that you don't want to at the same level and the difference and think what we see in the low cost position is low cost but low

scores producer it's hard to see the situation. and that's all from the business team i'll be back here in about fifteen minutes juanita. right to clean town. squandered money.

one. more new sixty square kilometers of the station and those are still suprising. i'm finding we're just. getting bad out here. but not saying hardly any birds squirrels you know. you know i don't know what's going on here. concrete on our cheek. if you're just joining us. live from moscow with. the headlines now in defense.

moscow blames syria's increasing international isolation on the west and plans to bring about regime change. turning up the heat the u.s. and china are exchange. comes to a close in hawaii talks of a specific free trade area. with. a crew of three heads. to the international space station is the first mission for almost three months when a similar. discussed the possibility of israel attacking iran's nuclear facilities. with now have.