but they for cash promised. in defense all but damascus moscow blames syria's increasing international isolation on western plans to bring about regime change. syria's arab and they've visited their backs on 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 and tough talks between the u.s. and china over trade and currency issues and as the apec summit comes to a close in one. three two one. back on track a crew of three heads to the international space station on a russian soyuz it's three months on from the crash of

a similar unmanned rocket shortly after liftoff. and later this hour qatar and signed a little fried natural gas project in the arctic for the details join me for the business bulletin in about twenty minutes. and it's now or just after five pm on monday here in moscow this is artsy with me will receive a shine but u.s. and its allies are more interested in regime change in syria than a peaceful solution to the unrest that's according to the kremlin russia's foreign minister says western countries are trying to stir up syria's opposition to topple president bashar assad. has details. circular frova 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 at a meeting on the second of november peace deal a deal to try to broker peace in the syrian conflict. said he left office said this the decision to suspend syria from the arab league is counterproductive to a peace deal saying that the decision really sends a message to the syrian opposition to to continue fighting against president assad's 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 has offered it serves as 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 on wednesday we're expecting see that rubber stamp put on the decision to suspend syria from the arab league now the last nation to be suspended from the arab league libya of course nothing is 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 when it came to the chance of imposing a u.n. resolution on syria russia blocking that station from going through what we have seen is further sanctions being put forward from outside the e.u. to suggest that they want to see further sanctions also they want to see the freezing of assets of eighteen senior members of assad's. government we're also seeing the reaction from the syrian people to this tens of thousands out on the streets of damascus across syria protesting against this decision to suspend syria

from the arab league they want to fight a castell solution to put an end to this conflict that's going on for eight months now this to make it three thousand five hundred people being killed during it. all of our reporting right there but i mean independent journalist james corporate thinks that the arab league suspension of syria means the west now is much closer to achieving its goal of regime change and success given the incredible diplomatic and political ramifications of this move i think we can't be too far from seeing similar type situation for you know 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 all of the arab league nations now assuming that this is a rubber stamp as we believe it will be this decision will be withdrawing of

important diplomatic embassy officials from damascus which really does the legitimacy of the government there in a major way and so it's almost inconceivable to see how assad would be able to stay on in power and in any event it regularly. you would r.t. it's good to have your company today still have. a divided europe. during the best interest of the german to keep on going with. you have behaved badly we're going to punish that's not to you as a new government takeover in greece italy some question whether they'll have the interests of ordinary people of heart. and books. military style discipline will soon be introduced in some way u.k. schools to straighten out a bunch of pupils but a new front opens up in the debate with a warning it's a step too far. as the hosting torch is being passed from hawaii to russia for next year's apec summit some breakthroughs have

been made by the twenty one asia pacific nations. concrete commitments towards a free pacific trade area that the u.s. has been looking for but at the same time the u.s. has turned up the heat on its biggest economic rival china at the weekend's gathering president obama slammed beijing for its trade and currency policies his latest rift was in evidence even when it came to the smiles and handshakes for the cameras our correspondent and associate reports. there is a tradition at a park summits where leaders get together and where national costumes for a photo opportunity it's really a fun time for leaders support each other on the back and joke around but this year journalists were surprised to see that this is all a photo op in hawaiian shirts never happened and we were hearing that this is because china was refusing to put on the one shirt so it really looks like the united states had a hard time during these last two days at apac in honolulu convincing china not only when it comes to economic issues but really issues of the wardrobe as well and

this is something that many analysts are not surprised to see because the u.s. currently doesn't have a lot of leverage when it comes to dealing with china as trying to of course is the largest foreign creditor for the united states holding over one trillion dollars in u.s. debt. and associates are going to reporting right of one of the two countries have exchanged strong words with china defending its policy on its currency these are some of what explains the differences that have piled up between washington and beijing. if there is any u.s. states with the occupy movement has little chance it's probably hard why despite the high concentration of pull the tissues in wall street big week socialising and the apec summit the only place people are willing to buy here on mass at the beach is this one exception these pictures tourists are against greed and social injustice against economic inequality and they are against china. i. mean sudan clearly the mood at the podium was similar to look hostile

i think we can benefit from frayed with china and i want to certainly continue talks of aiding 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 all others but as china's g.d.p. continues adding nine percent a year against the heat and a half percent growth in the u.s. that reprimand seems to be in china ledger event comportment he's one of the top ballet you think that china is also reflected in the country's political and economic policy so it's not that china doesn't play by the rules or factually by the opposite but the united states seems to have an issue really is that

increasingly china rules and after privilege washington would prefer to keep it out 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. free trade turned to be. in the eyes of the beholder. it's free for you but protection. that i get. my precious. industries. well. so it's always a dilemma how. 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 exact equivalents one of them is money makes the world go round a concept experience for. miliard to washington and progressively so. it's not going to our apec summit in honolulu. after you come to your life in the heart of moscow still ahead of you this hour on their way through after an order on course for the international space station in a russian soyuz it's the first crew to do so to do so since a similar unmanned rocket crashed three months ago. italy's a new prime minister mario monti has begun work on forming a new technocrat government to tackle the country's towering bet an economist and a former e.u. commissioner now has to implement structural economic reforms to italy out of its

financial chaos our correspondent sara first 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 sought to unite year at seventeen countries of which you know on the one currency attracted fierce criticism we've witnessed the beginning of a dishonest and downright dangerous german president. to revive the constitution but to do it in such a way that you want to avoid referendums in key member states some might now be wishing they'd heeded the warnings one after another and then the states became to wobble it's least 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 for what it's going to start but the crisis is safe on the leaders of greece and italy replaced by people who

were never elected to office their way around brussels here in italy with berlusconi now god doesn't. painful reforms now need to be implemented to meet. for the first time since the crisis began talks have now begun to turn to the possibility of exit. 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 if a state behaves badly mired in packs of behaving badly where you think obama's going to we're going to keep you out of united states of america no they're not going to be calling stances a bad year we played good year has not gone on missed by struggling countries was this clear that those who either spent less now face painful stereotype measures

the sense of being treated like a naughty school child only added to the growing strain. now well so to say. it was much more france and especially germany to the times there must be up to the states to express a political leader for it not just for their own countries but for europe as a whole your intentions have not called on this by the. political leaders. in dealing with a crisis the struggling economies like italy even. mistakes it's least being considered by many that case. the question now is whether or not those measures can be 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. quarter past

the hour here in moscow ten minutes away from the business news but for now the world update here on. an israeli air strike on a naval base used by hamas in northern gaza has killed a palestinian policeman and injured seven others israeli official savior in response to a rocket fired into southern israel. this comes a day after an israeli commander was quoted as saying the military is prepared to topple the hamas regime. the norwegian man who confessed to killing seventy seven people has now made his first public appearance in court in july and disapprove of a right wing extremist attacked central oslo with a car bomb and then went on a deadly shooting rampage at a youth camp on the. previous hearings have been helping. with the main trial expected to start in april. the taliban in afghanistan it says its obtained it leaked security arrangements for an upcoming government

meeting in kabul but the group published twenty seven page plan on its website in claims the detailed maps and documents that allow it to launch precision attacks against the meeting and officials say the documents are forgeries. in the u.s. city of portland police in riot gear bill raided the occupy protesters camp forcing them into the streets dozens of officers stood with buttons to keep demonstrators away after be ignored in fiction or as protesters then broke the stand off and marched through the streets demonstration being part of the global movement against social inequality and corporate greed. the u.k. government plans to open new schools with army style boot camp and discipline to control disruptive pupils the measure was proposed after several cities including london were rocked by riots in august supporters believe it was the weapon routines into shape but others think it will just make them worse as art is either 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 in to schools so it's calling on the cavalry will form the soldiers it's what the front line at the front of a classroom following the right to cross the u.k. the government prostrate in troops into teaching as a way it says to restore adults or thorazine once 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 stand. if they step this side of the lie they will be punished accordingly if they stay on the right side of the lie that they're it in the confines of the law and they will not be punished it's a line few would cross 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 of a strict routine when you can maintain discipline a future war which is the most high pressured situation you can maintain discipline in a classroom and older 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 think behave towards our kids it's two gangs if you consider police or a gang it would be the army kids i think it would become more under these generally takes in problem people 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 it become unruly because you're bored putting discipline isn't the answer just on the tone this is yes but at

making sure it will something at their 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 it's still too afraid to be identified back then he was on course to fail all his exams but after just a year past fourteen a far cry from someone supposedly too disruptive to teach you. more discipline with your children and schools you think that wouldn't work for you. why not so in a class of gore and clinton or talking as district work. so focused on the door didn't really want to go to listen to an individual attention was 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 r t london. we're coming to you live from the heart of moscow now

a successful blast off from the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan is now 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 from the i.s.o.'s crashed almost three months ago to stop barking are picked up the story. launch time with the baikonur cosmodrome these three men have gone up to join next poets and the international space station but they're late and unhappy about why it is a risky business you can never eliminate risk altogether that's that's the bargain that you make for the privilege of flying humans in space on accomplishing what they do up there on the twenty fourth of august a supply rockets engines failed on its way up to the i assets and it plummeted back to worth with a bang it was unmanned but all launches will 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 and why. this crew of their launch date sent back to us their relatives were especially nice to talk to the program's crash what do you think about your husband's launch coming up so soon. it's too difficult it's better not to talk about it. the crew themselves though accept the dangers as part of the job . 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 traumatize the situation. and so it was the rocket was lifted into place its launch pad we can see the rockets taking off now and we'll watch it progress. by. with deep sighs of relief all watched as the rocket blasted successfully toward it leading the crew to experience what you call the rest of us literally were about

. you can actually get a good view of the earth during the flight of the spacecraft but surely will have time to enjoy it better while the international space station for that view and for mabs future in space they say the risk is worth it. john bottom. a lot of hopes are tied into modern space exploration but there are also fears there are tense efforts on the ground now to truck the course of the latest unmanned russian mission to mars the rocket packed with tons of toxic fuel broke down soon after launch but more details on the site r t.

well are coming up soon here on r.t. we travel to russia some are region one of the most important business and cultural centers in the european part of the country. and the business. it's twenty two minutes past five pm moscow time welcome to the business program italy has no other choice but to exit the euro zone and bring back its national currency even if that means the collapse of the single currency so says prominent economist nouriel roubini also known as the. six countries. you know it's very cyprus a different degrees of your all the fiscal financial difficulties. one or more of them are being made towards the doctor if you subscribe to the topic that's one more of the. rights of a euro zone different off of the notes of the eurozone itself right implies

a breakup of the eurozone. debt maybe soaring up the euro but here in russia the budget position is reassuringly strong however spare bank senior vice president denise grove believes there is no room for complacency but books may be balanced but the russian economy still has a number of problems that address. the rush is obese the in a very different situation may be as old countries russia faces challenges but those challenges are different you are. rarely good short term position from the fiscal standpoint there are plenty of food serves that being said bush read the script he defended the commodity prices and. there is some concern it would be due to its history. and let's now take a quick look at the equity markets european indices are shedding their earlier games that were due to some optimism about italy that has started building

a new government italy's borrowing costs saying to six point four percent and hopes that economist laurie monti will form a strong government. here in russia the markets are mixed the r.t.s. is flock to negative while the my sex is two tenths of a percent. and here are some of the biggest movers of the day so far gazprom and other energy blue chips are positive but lukoil is losing about how five percent that's despite a reported eighty percent increase in net profit for the first nine months of the year investors are disappointed by declining production to school continues its last week's losses as the precious metal is low over. russia's economic expansion has accelerated for the first time since last year g.d.p. grew four point eight percent in the third quarter compared to around three percent in the previous one that's due to stronger because consumption held by

a rise in lending however it's too early to celebrate analysts expect a slowdown toward the end of the year as production declines and there's no recovery in external demand. personality i'm trying to solve third quarter net profit has more than doubled to two hundred ninety million dollars year on year that's after a higher product product prices than of the ruble help push its overall revenues however first they're pretty see over the slothful of you says the quarters maybe achievements was a reduction in operating and finance costs. what you choose to third quarter and we're going to keep this result of the sort of the actual formal cost but significant reduction before comparable to the second quarter of our fortunes are there drop in part of your presence of more people so you listen to a truer much better result of the second quarter but as you see we were sure that it was over the last year a difficult say we the police will complete the market at the same level and the

differences think what we see in their low costs will move the opposition's lower cost but losses producer it's hard to see their situation. could tarzan talks to buy a stake in the arctic a liquefied natural gas project led by russia's gas producer nova tech the project is expected to produce around five million tonnes of ellen g. per a year starting in two thousand and sixteen and reach about this team million tons per year by twenty eight thousand qatar's energy minister mohamad all sought us says the country's keen to take part in the project opposed very much interested in the system. generally believe it can you can see in the moment is. put into context and we are going to be testing. the. victim. to speak of the. proteins.

in the discussions and negotiations on the products. the international energy agency expects the natural gas consumption to grow fifty percent by twenty thirty five however russia is not likely to have the biggest part of the pie as china is expected to outperform as the world's top producer but chief of i.e. a shares hit her view on what should be for his response to the global energy challenge. if you really want to turn the gas into the gas in the block if you will for the future and that's also called a game called an age of a guy who looks like then you have to do a couple of things you have to see to it like you have golden rules of expectation of gas there are some questions about the environment for instance you have to see to with that you use your glass efficiency russia has a lot of clouds but it loses

a lot of gas because of end of inefficiency and if you could see to it that this gas isn't lost it's got quite a lot of gas extra to put on to the market. and that's all from the business team this hour i'll be back in about fifteen minutes. well. science technology innovation all the moves developments

around russia we've got the future covered. in two thousand and ten special economic zone for industrial production was established in russia somalia region with a total area of six hundred sixty effect as. its investors are granted exclusive tax and customs benefits which includes a five year exemption from property lands and transport taxes as well as an income tax reduction to fifteen point five percent. the special economic zone operates as a fleet customs own which enables manufacturers to market their products in russia free of in four g.'s the some our region is he said is currently witnessing a sewage in.