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 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 libya and of course stuff that is altered in the outside military intervention something that russia again was opposed to and 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 decision 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 know the estimated three thousand five hundred people being killed during its. reporting that this is our to live here in moscow still ahead this hour a divided europe. it's not in the best interest of the germans to keep on going with this i think you know 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. the number of breakthroughs have been made at this year's apec summit in a way with twenty one member nations present including australia canada and japan all the countries pledged to work towards a pacific free trade zone something the u.s. had pushed for president's maybe it had been a bomb a measure on the sidelines of the summit to talk about moscow's accession to the world trade organization next year he also discussed the cancellation of a cold war provision in u.s. law known as the jackson van a commitment that restricts trade relations with russia at the same time the u.s.

has turned up the heat on his biggest economic rival china as a correspondent and stars of chicken they 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 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 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. the u.s. has long complained that china keeps its currency artificially weak to give an advantage to its exporters but china says that the u. one has to rise gradually to avoid harming its economy a correspondent boyko explains the differences that have piled up between washington and beijing. if there is any us state where the occupy movement has little chance it's probably why despite the high concentration of politicians and wall street big wigs socializing at the apec summit the only place people are willing to occupy here on mass of the beach is with one exception these protesters are against greed and social injustice they're against economic inequality and they are against china. sedan clee the mood at the podium was similarly hostile i think we can benefit from trade with china and i want certainly to continue cultivating.

a constructive relationship with the trying his 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 if he gets the two and a half percent growth in the u.s. the reprimand seems to be internally driven conformant he's one of the top values in the chinese meal devolved also reflected in the country's political and economic policy if it's not that china doesn't play by their rules that'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 south as the us 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 the game retreating to be. in the eyes of the beholder. it true for you but protectionist for me that i get to protect. precious. industries that well will. so it's always a dilemma as to how free it is as the euro crisis continues metastasizing through our devolved and china is asked to shoulder the load many estate west should keep in mind it's 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 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 not like the arts at the apec summit in honolulu. 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 ready to protest a camp in the city of oakland dismantling tents and arresting activists bodies loosely couple of has 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 today 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 occupation as they do seem like they'll continue not here in oakland for now that was a was raided the tents were removed the protesters were just first 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 those 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 say is if 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. entry 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 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 you see coming off talking to me a little earlier moscow's says sanctions against iran have outlived their usefulness and insists it won't support any additional measures against the islamic

state the statement from russia's foreign minister follows the diplomatic fallout in the international community over a un report it suggested the iran could be developing a nuclear weapon well let's get some more analysis from the he's a policy director at the national iranian american council joining us there in washington and tehran is of course brushing these allegations aside claiming that based on outdated and fabricated information does it look that way to you. well it's actually pretty unclear as to what the data is for some of these some of these findings that presented the most conclusive evidence of findings before two thousand and three which is when the united states actually believes that iran ended its full scale nuclear weapon program. a report does allude to activities that may have continued beyond that point these are you know research activities.

there is some limited information in there about activity that did did contain short limited information is that not because tehran hasn't been that co-operative the i.a.e.a. says it hasn't been able to gain full access so it's really not too sure because all of that lack of cooperation from iran. well certainly has not been as cooperative as they need to be and that's actually that's the game here that's what we need to be working on in terms of you know those who want to see that iran does not at some point in the future develop a nuclear weapons capability we need to be working through diplomacy to make sure that you ron is cooperative with the i say that they do have safeguards and transparency measures in place to ensure that that doesn't happen someday down the road in terms of the report there is limited information a lot of the reason it's limited is because it's most likely that iran does not it is you know it is the case of iran does not have a nuclear weapons program outright they are most likely pursuing

a nuclear latency that means that they're doing this research there are enriching uranium but they haven't made the decision to actually pursue a nuclear weapon does iran have the right to pursue a nuclear weapon. iran does not have the right to pursue a nuclear weapon they're a signatory of the nonproliferation treaty and what that means is that they can have a civilian nuclear program they can do research and develop nuclear energy they can have a nuclear weapon. the u.s. is now considering a new set of sanctions against iran but while that makes a political point what sort of impact does that have on ordinary iranian people. well gosh the same issues that have already been in place against iran have been pretty devastating to ordinary people in iran has you know helped drive up the cost of a lot of goods and sort of in combination with the mismanagement of the economy by the iranian government has done a lot of damage domestically and what we've seen is that actually it's really

squeezing the middle class more than anything. with the new sanctions that are being talked about it's actually we're at a point where we've run out of things to sanction and we're actually looking at things that are going to sanction ourselves there's talk of sanctioning iran central bank which would effectively take iranian oil off the market and you know it could put the world into economic tailspin you know you're talking two point three million barrels a barrels of oil no longer available so what the u.s. is finding is that there's not a big appetite for a measure like that that could push europe off the edge that could raise gas prices here in the united states so a lot of us are sort of scratching our heads what are the new sanctions that are being talked about and why are these options that are harmful to the u.s. harmful to the u.s. as allies and then also harmful to ordinary people in iran and have not really had an impact on the regime at all because they're able to circumvent these measures why are these being discussed not absolutely sure the last option then isn't that

paul from military confrontation. well look yes there's you know there's really there's two paths here either you do the military thing which has been presented as ok a couple one off strikes and then you know it's over but in reality and what the u.s. defense secretary recently said is that the best that that would do is set iran's program back by two or three years you would see them rapidly escalate the program they'd go into manhattan project sort of mentality and pursue a nuclear weapon outright and you know in a lot of respects be driven into that. the other alternative for the military action is full scale war which nobody can afford right now then the other path that you have is a diplomatic resolution and that's sort of the path that not a lot of people are willing to talk about but if the end goal is to solve this and not do immense damage to the u.s. and the globe there is going to have to be

a day in the future when we are at the table with iran and we actually set up an agreement where iran is not able to develop a nuclear weapons capability they have safeguards on their program and you know we address some of the issues that we have concerns about and we avoid a devastating war really interesting to your thoughts thank you for joining us policy director at the national iranian american council there in washington good to hear from you thank you. it's a these new prime minister mario monti has begun work on forming a new technocrat government to talk of 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 a correspondent takes a look at whether a new man at the top make a difference for the euro zone. 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 like a member states some might now be wishing they'd heeded the warnings 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. 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 going to start but the crisis is safe in the leaders of greece and italy replaced by people who were never elected to office their way around brussels here it is totally with berlusconi now gone he doesn't and 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 a cool europe because countries like germany seem to feel it in 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. 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 a bad year agree pretty good you are great has not gone on missed by struggling countries lost it's clear that those who have a spend less now face up to painful stereotyping measures the sense of being treated like a naughty school child any added to the growing strain in. community is. now well so the say that will expose much more france and especially germany to the times there i believe 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 on by the financial markets here punish political leaders. dealing with the crisis and struggling economies like italy even the. mistakes italy's being considered by many the test case for the 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 weather will see them going the same way as previous measures put forward by european leaders. failed to come up with a convincing. for more insight into the crisis in europe let's talk to the former deputy speaker of the belgian parliament he's in brussels first. leaving office politicians making way for former bankers or so-called technocrats is that really what these countries need now to get them out of this

financial crisis but it all depends how you define the country i mean it is in a country different people different interests if you define a country as the financial elites. if you define the country as the general population. disaster. the austerity measures are a recipe for social disaster. yes. yes absolutely you should get. we always hear about there's the one the financial crisis to be so on the other hand and then there's the other social problems those are not separate issues one is totally linked to the other the only way that they going to implement financial austerity is to attack the shoshu protection welfare everything that's been accomplished over the last fifty years but isn't it the height of idea of many people isn't it a hard pill to swallow is the reality this is what they say is needed that the

countries need to cut back obviously on the spending control the taxation and it's going to be a tough time for the people and clearly the people of greece don't want it and also we've seen the protests in other various european countries but it is the reality is it not and this is what the politicians are going to have to convince the people to accept well actually i disagree whether that is indeed a reality it is a way of preacher a new reality i mean we are now going to put in place bankers people who cost of the financial base crisis in the first place and they are going to so-called solve it not what is happening here is not really financial reform this is a reform of societies as we know it's unfair i'm very sorry but i'm better i have a very gloomy outlook on what these people are going to do interesting you say the bankers are full but of course many would say it's the political indecision within the e.u. it's politicians like yourself well i know you think you were a former deputy speaker of the belgian parliament is it not fair to blame the politicians for years it's actually true and fair to partially blame politicians

but i would like to say that also there's no such thing as a long thing of politicians. different groups there's different political opinions there's the opposition there's the majority i mean you cannot just blame deep politicians not parliamentary democracy and i am i have my experience is far from perfect but it is the one system that is at least partially accountable bankers are not parliamentary democracy is not what we're. that missing in greece and italy at the moment these leaders weren't appointed and yet they're taking over these governments now absolutely and this is this is absolutely not good i mean these people do not have to seek reelection that's the ideal people to do a half measures that are so-called so-called not popular to amend i mean if you want the problem is actually that democracy is functioning not very well but it is functioning and these people do not align with the people want people who do want

more social democracy they want less for the bands they want less for the big corporation and that is something that they don't like and that is something that you prove and by so-called financial austerity you're there in brussels what you like to see an hour do you think the eurozone should collapse that if greece pulls out and indeed even if it's only because obviously they won't be able to do a greek style bailout on italy they can't afford it do you think it is really the realistic azza now for the eurozone just to disintegrate. you know no i don't think so i was never a big fan of the euro in the first place but it is what we have and to do now just does disband it would be even worse for the moment especially in the short term and you don't i mean if you see how long it took to get you in the first bit to organize it to dicky is and in the meantime the crisis is going to go on they will have to find the solution within the eurozone all the strengthening about collapsed in the euro zone they're perfectly well do new well it's not going to happen it's

like asking at the united states to say which eldest of the states are going to stand a dollars and that's not going to happen you say finding the solution is that meaning finding the money to sort this out or is it really a political well it's it dulled advance it's finding the money where that means that there is money there's a lot of money huge big multinationals are making profits as never before i mean a my own country here it was on the news today that because of companies complain that they paid too mustek says to secure the socal sixteen percent actually what they see is their only pay he left and percent and that's all over the place in europe they can the can because they blame the so-called official tax rate but the reality is that they hardly pay any tax load it's exactly what the occupy movements all about isn't it as well but just very very briefly and finally we're going to see more more pressure on other governments throughout europe more political casualties do you think even before the end of the year disparate very briefly and

well i don't i don't i'm not a good fortune teller on these issues it might happen and i hope it won't i mean france. is in the limelight for the moment but the presidential system in france you cannot compare degrees or italy but some things might happen i just hope it won't because it is bad enough as it is now i can only hope it doesn't go further than that thanks so much for the time logan is former deputy speaker of the belgian parliament there in brussels thank you thanks. i'll be back with a recap of today's menu shortly but first it's the business news with natasha. it's twenty six minutes past eleven pm here in moscow you're watching the business program italy has no other choice but to exit the euro zone and bring back its national currency even if that meant means the collapse of the euro so says

prominent economist nouriel roubini also known as the to do. six reason to resolve them or to go either it's been inside was it to be for that reason it always has gotten from the issue of difficulties we. want to moral that maybe the two of us that ought to use this probably don't want to read more of them may have to write to the eurozone if an offer of them is in the eurozone learned but so far it will be implies that a breakup of the eurozone. and let's now check out the equity markets european debt continues to weigh on wall street which is winding its losses the dow and the aspect are losing just under three quarters of percent the sour. and european indices are close now they were unable to sustain the earlier games that were due to some optimism about italy it has started rebuilding the government the footsie end of the day half percent lower germany's dax closed more than one percent down.

here in russia the markets ended monday's session want to positive the r.t.s. and the my sex were up just a notch. and let's take a look at some of the biggest movers of the day gazprom and other energy blue chips were quite robust during the day but and of the trading session with losses luke will was also in 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 quotas gold continued its last week's losses on lower precious metal prices. bush's economic expansion is accelerating for the first time since last year g.d.p. was up four point eight percent in the third quarter that's compared to around three percent in the previous one now to do just stronger consumption helped by rising 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. qatar's and talks to buy a stake in the arctic liquefied natural gas project led by russia's gas producer nov attack the mall project is expected to produce around five million tons of l n g a year starting in two thousand and sixteen and reach fifteen million tonnes by the year twenty eighteen qatar's energy minister mohammad al sato's says the country is keen on taking part in the project. supposedly which interested in the system. generally you or you guys can you can see your mom is. important to point six and we are going to be twisting. the. you tube. to speak to the. project and we are. in the discussions and negotiations our partners and that's it from the business

team for now but you can always find all the latest business news that r t dot com slash business. this is from the russian capital top stories now. increasing international

isolation on western plans to bring about regime change arab league has turned its back on president the u.s. and its tough action to bring him down. the u.s. and china exchange tough language trading currency issues as the apec summit. of the pacific free trade area with russia said to be the next host. u.s. police put the pressure on. to crack down on the movement across the country. so that brings you up to date for the moment with more news from thirty minutes from now in the meantime after a u.n. report claiming iran might be seeking to obtain nuclear weapons. about the reasons behind the world's interest in the country's atomic industry cross-talk is next here on.