we've got the future covered. in defense of damascus moscow blames syria's increasing international isolation on western plans for regime change. syria's arab neighbors turn their backs on president assad as the united states and its allies call for tougher action to bring about the downfall of the syrian leader. turning up the heat tough talks between the u.s. and china over trade and currency issues as the apec summit comes to a close in hawaii. back on track a crew of three heads to the international space station on a russian soyuz three months on from the crash of a similar unmanned rocket shortly after liftoff. and italy has no

choice but to exit the euro zone and bring back its national currency a prominent economist nouriel roubini explains why in the next business bulletin and about twenty. international news and comment live from moscow this is r.t. with twenty four hours a day i could have you with this is now the us and it's our eyes 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 peter all of the has the 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 now. 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 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 it 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 on wednesday we're expecting to see that rubber stamp put on the decision to suspend syria from the arab league the last nation to be suspended from the arab league libya and of course tough 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 when it came to the chance of imposing a u.n. resolution on syria russia looking at sishen from going through we're also seeing the reaction from the syrian people tens of thousands out on the streets of the mosque history across syria protesting against this decision to suspend syria from the arab league they want to find a peaceful solution to put an end to this conflict that's going on for eight months now the estimated three thousand five hundred people being killed during it. if you

don't have a reporting there and beirut based political analyst kamel was anything syria's neighbors are doing the bidding of the west by going against damascus when we talk about the arab league we're talking about the burgeoning gulf country which actually maintain bases for the american. power of the american in the region order came from the united states when the president of the united states and its administration tell the opposition not. lay down their arms and continue to. army the growth country they're not looking at the market because they don't have one and the united states cannot talk about democracy because their crimes in iraq and other parts of the world still visible here when we look at the west is interesting in maintaining its interest and keeping the balance intact they lost iraq they want to compensate for it in syria and now it's actually pushing up to play their dirty role well the rule is interested in your opinion on these matters

russkie at the moment do you think that syria will follow libya's fate in going to web site r.t. dot com and join in with our latest poll that some of the conscripts see the results so far but we can see that the most popular response is yes nato will intervene anyway even without un that he there's a tie between the next you can see it say no syria is too strong and assad has too much support and you know the nato would intervene. in the middle east and the minority so far things that nato would intervene with u.n. backing and overthrow president assad click online now to cast your vote for me. this is all to life here in moscow with twenty four hours a day still ahead a devoted to europe. knowing the best interest of the germans to keep on going would be good for you right you have been revived lee we're going to punish that's not

a union. as new governments take over in italy and greece some question whether they'll have the interests of ordinary people but. the number of breakthroughs to be made at this year's apec summit in hawaii with twenty one member nations present including the likes of australia canada and japan all the countries pledged to work towards a person pacific free trade zone something the u.s. pushed for president obama met on the sidelines of the summit to talk about moscow's accession to the world trade organization next year and also discuss the cancellation of a cold war provision in u.s. law known as the jackson valley commitment that restricts trade relations with russia at the same time the u.s. has turned the heat on its biggest economic rival china as our correspondent on the style you're going to discover smiles and handshakes for the cameras didn't to look full story there is a tradition at summits where leaders get together and where national costumes for a photo opportunity it's really a fun time for leaders to pat each other on the back and joke around but this year

journalists were surprised to see that this old photo op in hawaiian shirts never happened and we were hearing that this is because china was refusing to put on the whole 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 china of course is the largest foreign creditor for the united states holding over one trillion dollars in u.s. debt. u.s. is long complained that china keeps its currency artificially weak to give an advantage to its exporters but china says that one has to rise gradually to avoid harming its economy of course but outside of boyko explains the difference is that appalled up between washington and beijing. and there isn't any us state where the occupy movement has little chance it's probably why despite the high concentration

of people the titians and was three 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 the canonical equality and they are against china. i. was who incidentally the mood at the podium in a little of hostile i think we can benefit from for a good try and i certainly continue our thoughts of it in. a constructive relationship with the tribe 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 arthurs china's g.d.p. continues adding nine percent a year. and a half percent growth in the u.s. the reprimand seems to be in china. conformity is one of the top values to be trying to build a wall also reflected in the country's political and economic policy if that's not china doesn't play by the rules that's actually quite the opposite what do you know how does it feel to have an issue it is that increasingly china rules and that's the approach washington would prefer to keep it for now as the us president hailed his new free trade asia pacific pact as a win win trade in the region some in china as a predator effort to change rules. free trade to be. in the eyes of the beholder. a treat for you protection provided that i get. precious. industries as. well.

so it's always the loma prieta years 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 it's having trouble adjusting to what that means many chinese proverbs are difficult to translate into english here those about money usually have exact equivalents one of them is money makes the world go round the concept experience. milliards of washington and progressively still to beijing time i got our apec summit in honolulu book. well still ahead of this there were three astronauts ron paul for the international space station and a russian soyuz the first crew to do so since

a similar rocket crashed three months ago. but first italy's new prime minister mario monti has begun work on forming a new technocratic government to tackle the country's towering debt an economist and former e.u. commissioner he now has to implement structural economic reforms to pull italy out of its financial chaos correspond sort of further 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 in the one currency attracted fierce criticism we've witnessed the beginning of the dishonest right dangerous president . to revive the constitution but to do it in such a way that you want to avoid referendums in the team member states some might now be wishing they'd heeded the warnings to one after another the member states begin to wobble at least in the latest country to come under scrutiny we have been

witnessing in the last one was. growing pressure from europe and i'm talking in particular from france and germany partly to the u.k. certainly the european parliament and the commission is going to start the crisis the say first the leaders of crete and italy were placed by people who were never elected to office he knew their way around brussels here it is really with berlusconi now gone doesn't. paying for 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 from the year or the creation of the call euro 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're right you have behaved badly we've got a partition that's not

a union in that united states of america if they behaved badly imagine taxes behaving badly what you think obama is going to do we're going to kick you out of united states of america no they're not going to be the growing sense of bad year play good year has not gone on missed by struggling countries was this clear that those who waver spent less now face up to painful stereotype measures the sense of being treated like a naughty school child may be added to the growing strain. community. now. so to say there will always much more france and especially germany to the times there must be up to the sea to to express a. country for europe as a whole your intentions have not gone on this by the financial markets. political leaders. feet in dealing with the crisis the struggling economies like italy even the. mistakes it's least being considered by many the test case for the entire

a year if it fails and it can take down the entire. the question now is whether or not those measures can fix the whether we'll see them going the same way as previous measured by european leaders. failed to come up with a convincing. reform on this let's cross to paul or a phony he's founder of a brussels based organization the cheapie network. each of these new leader mario monti you know has a big task ahead of course to pull the country out of its crisis but will he really have enough supporting authority to make the difference and to get those measures pushed through. the kernel difficulties. because actually the italian political spectrum is pretty divided true large blocks with a number of small parties with the ousting of mr berlusconi out of the governments

of course the appetite for the different groups especially the smaller ones within each coalitions is increasing. but there is a question which should be. a politician it's lee were not able to do what mr monti is supposed to do because finally britain's conny had quite a large majority he was ousted the issue of a few votes missing during one of the. in the parliament they could have found an agreement to make these reforms with the opposition parties without the need of a technocrat to be just a float. to make this you for what it is only so if you're only a small source is it not the job of a technocrat government to sort this problem out the politicians have had their chances and indeed many would say the euro crisis is down to be ineptitude and indecision politicians therefore you need the experts now to step in and sort it out. well it's not

a matter of expertise or do not believe that the. politicians in charge of the economy in findings were unable or incapable of resolving the problem from a technical point of view the problem was in the issue of. correlation of intense on the political grounds which is what mr monti is supposed to build up but he's trying to build it up on the basis of emergency and urgency which has not been clearly explained to the italian public why it has emerged solo dramatically over the past few hours and days. we know every crisis of course is spilling out into larger economies there's not enough money for a greek style bailout for italy there is even a question over france's position but whose interest is it really to keep the eurozone intact now there are calls for greece to go indeed even italy to go is there but what is it is that the politicians or the people's interests at stake here. well the euro zone has been has been pushed in the

european system as you know with the mastic three d. and it has been. rather quickly thinking that the monetary union of would have pushed the political union actually sistering to the fact that the political union has never been built because it was not the will of the people to build it and the monetary union is shaky so i think that now the big problem is in france where france has been spending a lot of its credibility in the building up of the euro system not only from the monetary point of view now finds itself sidelined as well germany can. eventually sort of a heavier europe. actually the heartland with russia eventually france mune find itself sidelined by this process moreover france holds forty percent of the

italian public debt which means that for france it would be a catastrophe for me to leave would decide to sleep out of the eurozone you mentioned interests looking away from france and italy towards russia or and and i know that there are thoughts that perhaps the eurozone should be reshaped maybe get a little smaller but what are your thoughts about the future perhaps a completely new political landscape emerge from this with the various influences which you've just been talking about now emerging now in shaping a new sort of euro zone. certainly the there would be. a new set up even if all the members of the current european union and euro zone which as you know are not the same members. would be all together again the way of the union functioning and the funding grounds for the union would need to be different otherwise probably it will split up into different areas or different

layers of european integration and european monetary system it is for civil certainly a strong germany with a number of nordic countries and these countries who develop a sort of more genius parts of the euro zone and the european standardization system on the other hand you have all the other members including france. to be just on the periphery of this so they will have to be other players which can be a set of a first layer or even outside that you know create their own union all options are on the table but certainly what is happening and what we are seeing is very heavy within the system which shows all the fragility of the project as it was conceived but i will leave it there thank you very much indeed for your thoughts thanks for

your time polo pony joining us live from brussels thank you. u.s. police are losing patience with the anti corporate occupy movement two months after it flared up and spread across america officers in riot gear regular protest a camp in the city of oakland smashing tents and arresting activists what is loosely couple of the latest. we exceed crackdown after crackdown it's like a crackdown sort of increasing beginning with right here in oakland as soon as we got their officers again fully dressed in riot gear moving in on the protesters but interestingly enough there wasn't the same type of clashes that we've sort of grown accustomed to and seen in oakland ca it all went down rather smoothly and peacefully just by a lot of nervous tension in fact protesters gave my camera and i these mass that are so thin and bigger it's quite a quite a stench to protect against tear gas none of that was used but those occupations they do seem like they'll continue not here in oakland for now that was

a was raided the tents were removed protesters were just purchased but i guess the most important thing to watch here in oakland is what happens in the aftermath because of course we saw just a few weeks ago that there's tremendous photographs that made over look almost like a war zone somewhere abroad police are using tear gas flash bang grenades all kinds of non-lethal projectile weapons that end up injuring the iraq war veteran scott olsen and so we will be watching to see whether there's going to be a repeat of that kind of violence in the aftermath of the raid where it really counts is that you ask the protesters this to stop this sort of unchecked corporate greed son checked controlled by washington and that of course has not been stopped whatsoever but there are some some developments that sort of make it seem like this movement is spreading is having some sort of an impact for example in the mainstream media discourse you hear a lot more discussion about income inequality social injustice this sort of financial distinction between the top one percent income earners in this country

and the rest of it people that don't seem to be making quite as much and it does seem like perhaps in the coming months hala titian's can no longer ignore this movement perhaps we'll see sort of like what happens with the tea party or politicians will be forced to take on some of these ideas and talk about sort of moving away from this wealth inequality that really is so significant. this country and surprisingly so because again when you think of the united states you don't really think. of third world images and unfortunately in some of these cities and towns that's exactly where it's developed into where people can't afford their schools they can't afford their homes they can't afford to find a place to live that is what a lot of those people have told us in our travels covering this movement we see coming off talking a little earlier a successful blast off from the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan has sent three cosmonauts aboard a russian spacecraft on the way to the international space station it's the first launch since a similar soyuz rocket carrying supplies for the ice has crashed almost three

months ago. picks up the story. launch time with the baikonur cosmodrome that these three men have gone up to join their colleagues in 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 to supply rockets engines failed on its way up to be i.s.a.'s and it plummeted back to worth with a bang it was a mound but all launches were put on hold but 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 set back after 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 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 for them and so it was the rocket was lifted into place its launch pad we can see the rockets taking off and we'll watch the progress. with deep sighs of relief all watched as the rocket blasted successfully to orbit leaving the crew to experience what you will the rest of us the retrieval bout. you can actually get a good view of the earth during the flight in the spacecraft of the 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 bottom. but coming up very soon we travel to russia some are region one of the most important business and cultural centers in the european part of the country for that attaches here to bring you the very latest is this news. it's twenty five minutes past nine pm here in moscow you're watching the business program on r.t. 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 euro so says prominent economist nouriel roubini also known as dr do six weeks. ago italy spain cyprus that have different degrees here ali it's probably true difficulties. more bebe neuwirth roger if you subscribe to the topic that it's

one more of a tool like the euro zone if enough of the exhibit was on it's like it was the breakup of the eurozone. debt maybe sworn up europe but here in russia the budget position is surely strong however is very bank senior vice president denise grove believes there's no room for complacency the books may look balanced but the russian economy still has a number of problems that need addressing. and rush is obese the air in a very different situation be as old countries russia faces challenges but gave those challenges a different. and fairly good short term position from the business standpoint there are plentiful matures and the. issue remains critically dependent on commodity prices and. there is some concern over the beach or trophy school.

russia's economic expansion is excel or rating for the first time since last year g.d.p. was up four point eight percent in the third quarter compared to around three percent in the previous one doubts due to stronger consumption helped by a rise and lending but it's too early to celebrate analysts expect a slow down toward the end of the year as production declines and external demands shows no signs of recovery. european debt continues to weigh on the wall street which is widening its losses both the dow and the nasdaq are losing just under three quarters of the sumps out. and european indices are unable to sustain the earlier games that were due to some optimism about italy and the start of building a new government the footsie was down three quarters of a percent germany's dax is about two percent lower. and here in russia the equity

markets and the today pretty much want the r.t.s. some of my sex were up just a notch. and here are some of the biggest movers of the day gazprom and other major bleachers were quite robust during the day but ended the trading session with losses lukoil was also when the red the company on monday reported an eighty percent increase in net profit for the first nine months of the year but investors were disappointed by declining production for this gold continued its last week's losses on lower personal prices. and that said from the business team this hour i'll be back in about fifteen minutes drive me that.

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