uncomment live from moscow this is r t with twenty four hours a day good to have you with us this hour the 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 what is peter oliver has the details. circular for all of us 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 a peace deal a deal to try and 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 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 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 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 now the last nation to be suspended from the arab league was libya of course stuff exulted 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 damascus 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 with an estimated three thousand five hundred people being killed during it. peter all of the reporting there based political analysts kummel 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 goal of country which actually maintain bases for the american they maintain the 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 shoot syrian army the growth country they're not looking to because they don't have one and the united states cannot talk about democracy because there are crimes in iraq and other parts of the world still visible so 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 bush and i are up to play their dirty role. well we're always interested in your opinion on these matters we're asking 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 u.n. backing there's a tie between the next two camps each saying no syria is too strong and assad has too much support and no nato would intervene bloody war in the middle east and the

minority so far thinks that nato will intervene with u.n. backing and overthrow president assad click on live now to cast your vote for me. this is r.t. live here in moscow with the twenty four hours a day still ahead a divided europe. now in the best interest of the germans to keep on going with this. you have behaved badly 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. a number of breakthroughs have been 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 pen pacific free trade zone something the u.s. have 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 jaxon van a commitment that restricts trade relations with russia at the same time the u.s. has turned up the heat on its biggest economic rival china and as our correspondent discovered the smiles and handshakes for the cameras didn't tell the full story. there is a tradition at summits where leaders get together and wear national costumes for a photo opportunity it's really a fun time for leaders to each other in the back and joke around but this year journalists were surprised to see that this 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 konami 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. the u.s. is known complain 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 explains the differences that appalled up between washington and beijing. if there is any us state where the occupy movement has little chance it's probably why despite the high concentration of power the titians and wall street big wigs socializing at the apec summit the only place people are willing to offer to party 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. mean sudan clearly the mood at the podium was similar a lot of hostile i think we can benefit from trade with china and i want certainly

to continue cultivating. 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 others but as china's g.d.p. continues adding nine percent a year again and a half percent growth in the u.s. the reprimand seems to be internally driven conformities one of the top values to be trying to do wall also reflected in the country's political and economic policy so it's not that china doesn't play by the 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 to. 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 mean. free trade tend to be. in the eyes of the beholder it's true for you but protection for me provided that i get to protect my precious. industries that well will of our own personal national interests 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 it's all that age 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 experientially familiar to washington and progressively so to beijing it's one of my guards at the apec summit in honolulu. most and ahead of this all their way three astronauts ron paul for the international space station and a russian soyuz 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 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. 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 to one after another the member states began to wobble at least being the latest country to come under scrutiny we have we would sing in the last long. 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 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 me now

gone doesn't. paying for 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 exit 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 over here where you have behaved badly we're going to punish that's not a union in united states of america if a state behaves 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 that sense is a bad year and a good year has not gone on missed by struggling countries lost it's clear that those who have a spend less now face up to a painful story to measure is the sense of being treated like a naughty school child may be added to the growing strain. community if it's only

now because well so the say there will expose much more france and especially germany to the times there are a big 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 no gold on this by the financial markets punish political leaders the tracking the feet and dealing with the crisis the struggling economies like italy and now cool stuff even the napery think we are the stakes italy's being considered by many the test case for the entire a year you say it fails and it could take down the entire fifth the the question now is whether or not those measures can fix whether we'll see them going the same way as previous measures put forward by european leaders who say fails to come up with a convincing year investigate. the. well for more on this let's cross to part of the phony he's founder of a brussels based north of it organization the cheapie network. italy's new leader

has a big task ahead of course to pull the country out of its debt crisis but will he really have enough support and authority to make the difference and to get those austerity measures pushed through. the. pretty world because actually the italian political spectrum is pretty divided into two large blocks with a number of small parties with the ousting of mr berlusconi out of the government of course the upper side for the different groups especially the smaller ones within each coalitions is increasing. but there is a question which should be asked is why the politicians in italy were not able to do what mr monti is supposed to do now because finally bill is gone he had quite a large majority he was ousted on the on the issue of a few votes missing doing 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 to float. to make these reforms what it is i only saw as your answer all of us must ask you 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 the ineptitude and indecision of politicians therefore you need the experts now to step in and sort it out. well it's not a matter of expertise it is a do not believe that the italian police 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 an issue of. coalition of intense on the political ground 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 town in public why it has emerged solo dramatically over the past few hours and days. we know the 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 now 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 what is it the politicians or the people's interests at stake here. the euro zone has been has been pushed in the european system as you know with the mastic three d. and it has been been built up rather quickly thinking that the monetary union of would have pushed a political union actually doing to the effect 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 says

been spending a lot of its credibility in the building up of the euro system not only from the monetary point of view and now finds itself sidelined because while germany can eventually sort of heavier you were. actually the heartland with russia eventually france sweden find itself sidelined by this process moreover france holds forty percent of the italian public debts which means that for france it would be a catastrophe fee to leave decided to sleep. you mentioned interests looking away from france and italy towards russia or and and i know that there are faults 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 founding grounds for the union would need to be different otherwise probably it was split up into different areas or different layers of european integration and european monetary system it is foreseeable certainly a strong germany with a number of nordic countries and the eastern countries to develop a sort of more genius parts of the euro zone and the european standardization system on the other hand we have all the other members including

france. to be just on the periphery of these so they will have to be other players which can be a sake of a further layer or even outside that you know create their own european all options are on the table but certainly what is happening and what we are seeing is a very heavy tension within the system which shows all the fragility of the project as it was conceived but i will leave it that thank you very much and if your thoughts thanks for your time phoney 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 raided to protest a camp in the city of oakland dismantling tents and arresting activists what is loosely couple of the latest. we exceed crackdown after crackdown it seems like the crackdowns are definitely increasing beginning with right here in oakland as soon

as we got there 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 seeing in oakland say 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 soaked and been are 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 plaza was raided the tents were removed the protesters were just burst 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 them look almost like a war zone somewhere abroad where 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 it you ask the protesters just to stop this sort of unchecked corporate greed the sun checked controlled by a wall street over washington and then 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 the 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 happened with the tea party where 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. that's country and so surprisingly so because again when you think of the united states you don't really think there are third world images and unfortunately in some of

these cities and towns that's exactly what 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 you see coming off talking to me to learn a successful blastoff 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 i assessed 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 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.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 us their relatives were especially nervous you to talk to the progress 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. the crew themselves though accept the dangers as part of the job . because we are 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 situations. and so it was the rocket was lifted into place to launch pad we could see the rocket taking off now and we'll watch the progress.

bar but. with a deep sighs of relief all watched as the rocket blasted successfully into orbit leaving the crew to experience what you will the rest of us a retreatment out. there 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. well coming up very soon we travel to russia some are region one of the most important business in cultural centers in the european part of the country before that attaches here to bring you the very latest in its knees. it's twenty five minutes past nine pm here in moscow you're watching the business

program on r.t.e. 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 the dr do six countries resolve to leave his fate in cyprus and have different degrees of it all the fiscal and financial difficulties. one of the more maybe the worst droughts or if you subscribe to the public that it's one or more of them may have rights of a euro zone if enough of them like the euro zone that it's likely implies a breakup of the euro zone. debt maybe swallowing up europe but here in russia the budget position is surely strong however it's very bang senior vice president denise grove believes there is no room for complacency the books may look balanced but the russian economy still has a number of problems that need addressing. in russia is obese the is going to be

a different situation we as old countries russia faces challenges but they those challenges are different. and they're very good short term position from a physical standpoint there are plenty of food service that the. pressure remains critically dependent on commodity prices and. there is some concern over the medium term. russia's economic expansion is excel a 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 that's two to stronger consumption helped by a rise in lending but it's too early to celebrate analysts expect a slowdown toward the end of the year as production declines and external demand 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 a percent this hour. 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 of the day pretty much swapped the r.t.s. semis sex were up just a notch. and here are some of the biggest movers of the day gals problem and other major blue chips 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 and that profit for the first nine months of the year but investors were disappointed by declining production quotas gold continued its last

week's losses on lower precious metal prices. and that's it from the business team this hour i'll be back in about fifteen minutes to join me then. well the. science technology innovation all these developments from

around russia we've got the future covered. russia is going to be soon which brightened if you knew about sun from phones to impressions. these fun starts on t.v. dot com. good have you with us this hour this is all t.v. life in moscow top stories now moscow blames syria's increasing international

isolation on western plans to bring about regime change the arab league has turned its back on president assad with the u.s. and its allies calling for tougher action to bring him down. turning up the hades. u.s. and china exchanged tough language over trading currency issues as the apec summit comes to a close in hawaii talks of a pacific free trade area dominated the gathering with russia set to be the next host. a crew of three heads into orbit on a russian soyuz rocket which was the only way to reach the international space station the first manned mission almost three months since a similar rocket crashed shortly after liftoff. when they discovered with james brown that he delves into the local life and traditions of the region. if you're traveling in the russian winter it's always good to head to somewhere well developed in the small region definitely fits the bill.