president ford and shares his views on global affairs exclusively with r.t. had of a gathering of countries responsible for half of the world's economy set to take place in russia's far east. police fired tear gas and shotguns at anti-government demonstrators in bahrain to demand that the ruling moderate to release political prisoners. and democrats name barack obama the your candidate for u.s. president as the rally support for the campaign plagued by four years of broken promises.

ten am in the russian capital you're watching r t with josh president while he wouldn't share it he's taken matters both home and abroad with his first exclusive interview since returning to power in may we talked to the russian leader before he flew out to the country's far east word nations making up almost half the world's population and economy are gathering bushell is in body the stock. preparation here is in full swing police are everywhere ensuring security is an important meeting for world leaders that of the international monetary fund as well a paper is seen as a counterbalance in some ways to the economic power of the g eight states make up over a hole through the world's economy and their choice of brainstorming ideas to fight the global financial slowdown tearing down barriers and setting an example to the whole world is the theme this year talks of even become one big apec free trade zone bigger than the e.u. president putin is already here before arriving he gave the first interview since

he's over asian and spoke to r.t. discussed really a spectrum of world problems today the syrian crisis was obviously talked about always he was straight to the point rather skeptical about the syrian rebels even comparing them to guantanamo detainees yet the west is giving the rebels money supporting them despite widespread accusations of atrocities on the ground fronts even steadily recognize the opposition government so everyone supposed them in the west president pointed out rebels all the very religious extremists the west is struggling against though. just as well one ton. of its inmates and bring them to syria to do the fighting they're practically the same kind of people who were put in always a straight down the line in his arms the presidential elections in the u.s. he also touched on saying whoever gets the he will try to work with even mitt romney who of course notoriously calls russia enemy to you number one but the

president added he can only work with the american leader to the extent that the u.s. side worlds spoke about america in afghanistan about the u.s. rushing into war now of course looking for any way to get out of the mess is created by a decade long campaign taliban attacks are escalating afghan soldiers trained by nato but now attacking the very same nato troops we could. told him about the pussy riot his antics and trials dominated world headlines they staged a punk prayer in the main russian cathedral and got two years in jail for hooliganism motivated by religious hatred they've also staged political provocations with scandalous performances mr putin told us he doesn't want to get involved in the case in any way though. i'm aware of the pussy riot case but i'm not getting involved in any way so really up to the calls to destroy it since as you can see we can discuss many issues you can watch the full interview in

a couple of hours' time at twelve o'clock moscow time. reporting there and the pack form in lot of stock is already providing its first business updates are crossing now to carrie is following them for us. multi million dollar deals already with grasses that broth and then make. some they have announced plans to start drilling in rush's world as well details in about fifteen minutes time. iranian police have fired tear gas and shotguns at she i demonstrate or as the clashes have left one person critically injured activists took to the streets in protest of jail sentences against prominent figures on tuesday bahrain's appeals court upheld the sentences of twenty opposition activists found guilty of allegedly plotting to overthrow the government shiite protesters are calling for an end to what they call discrimination by the

sunni monarchy reform movement started last year we sprang downs claimed some sixty lines with dozens arrested these are times correspondent pepe escobar says gulf monarchies were convinced by the u.s. that the protests are the mastermind of bahraini. the protests in bahrain which are absolutely it's the keys of a shiite majority seventy percent of the country protesting because they are treated as second or third rate since this is the in their own country by a sunni dynasty which is very close to the house of saud in saudi arabia and the problem is house of the jesus you come through because of the persian gulf they managed to convince the u.s. and the west that this is a plot snatched by iran to this stuff allies the persian gulf which is school brinkley absurd there is a tradition of protesting boring that goes on for decades in fact the workers

protest they are shiite but they are also sunni is involved. and the fact that this is a two tier society if you are a foreign businessman and if you are aligned with the us you live a very good life sunni's of course if you are shiites and you have to try to live the bahraini dream let's put it this way for get it most avenues are close to you and if you want more human rights and to be treated. normally it's absolutely possible cause from the beginning the saudis especially the core don't know off the air or these either the bahraini they sold to washington the idea that this was in the run plot in wherever it happens. is always for you by the saudis and by washington as a minor disturbance and of course the u.s. does not want to compromise its position as being the aircraft. go r.d.m. angel of the persian gulf which are the life in moscow coming out of the shooting

at a canadian post-election rally that was cut short when a gunman opened fire r.t. takes a closer look at the details surrounding the dramatic events in montreal. and the recession shots and u.k. shops leaving small business is struggling to make ends meet with no light at the and the tunnel. rock obama has been nominated the u.s. democratic presidential candidate as the party's national convention drums up support for his reelection bid in the vampyr obama said americans were absolutely better off than four years ago but the country's growing national debt unemployment and broken promises have plagued his campaign ideas maria port now reports from the u.s. . in two thousand and eight for aco bomb i turned u.s. politics into something of a pop culture phenomenon we may be one of those defining moments. a moment when our

nation is at war our economy is in turmoil the democratic presidential candidate accepted his party's nomination valiant to rebuild america's moral standing and break from the policies of his predecessor the failure to respond is a direct result of a broken politics in washington and the failed policies of george w. bush four years after change occupied the white house america is still at war twenty three million citizens are unemployed and most of the national security policies cemented by george w. bush continue unabated or have been expanding the coded fixation of what were illicit abuses under bush imprisonment without trial spying without warrants we've now replaced imprisonment and torture largely with assassination which is actually not a moral improvement under obama's leadership guantanamo bay remains open the patriot act has been renewed warrantless wiretapping extended but cia black sites have

closed targeted killings have been justified drone strikes publicly acknowledged military commissions codified however enhanced interrogation like waterboarding has been banned critics say obama has not only double down on bush's policies he's also raised the stakes signing the national defense authorization act made him the first us president to assert the right to assassinate anyone anywhere without any legal sanction if there is a war cries out there we can the war crimes iraq. tops the list this made many of those who voted for him hoping for change left disillusioned in fact what they appear to have voted for was more of the same obama's ratings are now the lowest of any incumbent president since the one nine hundred eighty s. the two major parties are very this are very much the same on all the important issues when it comes to spending more money than we have. engaging in foreign

conflicts that we can't afford the cost of america's overseas military campaigns have contributed to a u.s. national debt that topped sixteen trillion dollars this week while obama's america is running on empty critics say wall street continues to play largely by the same rules that led to the global financial crisis there hasn't been regulation of banks in a sufficient way and the main crisis affecting the united states which is to say the financial clutch on the global economy and the corporate stranglehold on the political system hasn't changed at all because president obama comes from a coalition that led to that in the first place since obama has stepped into the white house america has seen an unprecedented rise in grassroots movements like the tea party and occupy wall street though both very different one thing uniting them is the claim that the people of america are being ignored by their own government the two major us political parties have historically gone to great lengths and have

spent hundreds of millions of dollars to highlight their differences yet following obama's first term in office the biggest change may be that more voters are likely to see a democrat and a republican as two sides of the soup marina port ny r.t. new york visit our website r.t. dot com for more details here's a quick look at what's there for you today france has started to provide syrian rebels with direct financial aid records and aircraft weapons supplies are already in the pipeline. was apple patents news acknowledged to you which allows police to stop people recording video during protests by the general public for more go door to door. in canada police have identified the suspected gunmen in the shooting during the. post-election rally as richard han rebate the attack left one man dead and. another person injured premier polina marwat was giving her

acceptance speech and shots were fired as security guards rushed her offstage sixty two year old baby was arrested at the scene while carrying two guns as he was taken away by police is alleged to have shouted english are waking up and french was a victory could potentially lead to a referendum on whether the province of quebec will gain independence from canada or mccollum a reporter for c.b.c. says the shooting has left the country in shock. while most people are condemning this shooting obviously it's not something anybody expected to happen especially on election night the mayor of montreal has come out to express his condolences to the victims he says that he walk safely in montreal without a bodyguard and that that no one could see this coming i spoke to some people after the shooting last night who were at the gathering of the pepsi kick well which is our solver n'est party where the leader was giving her victory speech after she won

the election and they said she did it what happened was she was whisked away off the stage there was a small boom they didn't think anything of it only later did the find out that two people had been shot one person was dead behind the nightclub where the speech was being given there was also a fire set police managed to put it out they arrested a sixty two year old man who has been taken into custody and should appear in court very soon but again there's a lot of shock here in montreal across the province of quebec that something like this could happen and until there's a motive known which we still don't know many people are asking a lot of questions there is the path to keep it quiet like as mentioned the sovereigntists party there their mandate is to separate from the rest of canada how long they have also more left leaning social policies as well which appeals to many people in the province of quebec there's also a big push by the party to help encourage the french language here and some people

who speak english feel that the those policies may be anti english and a little too strong but in general we've been dealing with this in this province for so many years we've seen two referendums to separate or not from canada in the past and those failed so the appetite for sovereignty has been quite minimal but in the lead up to the election we were hearing more and more debates between french speaking people in english speaking people and there was some concern perhaps that since the gunman uttered some words in english that perhaps it could have been politically motivated but as i say it's still too soon to make that connection. when the early one seven shops in the u.k. stood vacant at the end of june as retailers struggled to break free of a crippling double dip recession same report says the number is only set to grow this year many small businesses have been forced to shut amid government cuts as customers spend less and last article or smith reports but only you know.

a nation of shopkeepers and dave mears family are some of the proudest with three generations in the flooring trade this shop has been here for seventeen years but recessions hit the business hard and dave's had to fire more than half his staff really blowing a one off. i think. anyone with addiction would not want to put someone to work. boy. but everyone would have gone. at dave and his staff of victims a person's dreaded double dip recession which means the economy's been shrinking for three consecutive quarters but the second time in four years for ordinary people that means there's less work available and more employment and if you're

running a business you'll be selling less and won't be seeing any growth in sales or income there are home grown reasons for recession but a lot of the trouble comes from the beleaguered euro zone and for these market traders in camden a place that usually popular with european tourists it's a double blow to spain very very boy even saturday sunday it looks like we have one week date it's been less less cost of us less like a divorce and less than previous years this is now the longest double dip recession since world war two but stephen davis of the institute of economic affairs says things haven't been this bad since the eighteen seventies and that was a long period of very very low growth rates profound economic stagnation in places like britain and france sparked off by something very similar to what we have huge ball time in property and railroad stocks produces. the rise and you can see

quite a lot of intense competition divisions. come down to eighteen nineteen dave knows about social unrest his shops in croydon where some of the worst rioting happened last august during the trouble he camped out among the carpets in his barricaded shop to protect his livelihood. people. simply. a lot recently because of frustrated because actually are working a lot harder for the sign money that. he. as we all know things of increased a lot in processing. plus tax and everything so you know. if it wasn't for the support of the stores. i think we'd be in a lot of trouble dave believes this is the new normal

a stagnant economy where only the most scrupulous survive and even they make just enough money to scrape by and economists don't deny that the recovery will be long and arduous stating we could be in for a lost decade or even two nor a smith r.t. . as the u.k. works to minimize a far from the euro zone the e.u. struggles to help with girl members back on their feet greece's credit terrorists have suggested extending the working week in the country to six days but the ease efforts have failed to prevent ratings giant moody's from slapping a negative outlook on the block a later martin who used to work for the european commission's us bad policies have contributed to the region's troubles. i was in the nation and actually the people in the commission live in their ivory tower they don't actually understand what with the economy in the european union and we are where we are because of the lack

of discipline of the member states but very much also because of the lack of control of the european commission on the paul is. what this extent or to a large extent the result of the good or bad policies that they put him play. but they don't assume any response of the credit rating agencies are part of the problem or part of the solution because obviously they take certain parameters and they are of course in a way with a great thing for seeing you know the interest rate go up i think it's what you started showing that for me they you. are short life it. i watch the full interview with u.k.i.p. a former member of the european commission marta andras and just about ten minutes

time here on r.t.e. . cairo is waiting to receive the largest u.s. trade delegation to visit an arab country fifty corporations including coca-cola microsoft and google will be represented each aiming to cash in on the lucrative contracts available in post-revolutionary egypt but also see ologists. cairo is continuing the policies of the former regime. egypt was serving the us too much mostly it is trying to continue the same policy but it was some rhetorical distance some symbolic acts that he is independent for example it was his first visit the first visit by any egyptian leader of. course thirty years no egyptian leader went so he went there but did he break or start any strategic alliance was really as no he went express to see him. on iranian

policy on its policies on syria. and please the gulf states big finances of the egyptian economy and also he pleased. and nobody was showing anything is happening remember the spin is all about putting the house and all the internal situation that is not about foreign policy and i don't see any structural change in egyptian foreign policy since the spring the president is continuing the same old policy of mubarak but with the distance and some with some symbolism that. now as i was stories from around the world the former spy chief and confidante of colonel qadhafi has been transferred to libya after being actually died from a mauritania this is seen as a blow for the international criminal court which have been trying to win custody of the dollar. some critics believe he could expose details about extraordinary

rendition the process under which the u.s. moves convicts to countries known to employ harsh interrogation techniques so no see fled libya after last year's uprising against colonel gadhafi and is accused of crimes against humanity. four people have been found shot dead inside a car in a forest road in the french alps the driver of the vehicle was a u.k. citizen all the victims are thought to have been members of a british family on holiday two young girls were found alive at the scene one of them was only discovered eight hours later hidden under the bodies the other girls reported to be in critical condition in hospital. one person has died after a powerful earthquake hit costa rica triggering panic and a brief tsunami alert seven point six magnitude quake collapsed several houses and so five thousand people were evacuated the tremors were felt as far away as nicaragua this is the strongest earthquake to strike costa rica since ninety ninety

one when forty seven people were killed. times are airlines has canceled hundreds of flights for this friday with cabin staff planning another one day strike at germany's three major airports union which represents about two thirds of the town's cabin crew that i am spain greece is better working conditions two previous strikes practically paralyzed germany's air traffic of transit strike to implement cost cutting program i mean tough competition from european budget carriers and expanding airlines. and straight to the world of business and i pack some of deals and lot of stock are top of the agenda today what's happening there today to tell us more. so far we've got. american exxon mobile they've announced plans joint shelf projects of russia's water as i am to start exploration drilling on the black sea and choruses in twenty fourteen in that such ahead of schedule

another company is also agreed to create joint ventures and to post some shares in three of excellence projects in the u.s. and canada so that is one of the deals so far we've also got japan's mazda as well launching joint production of its coals with russia's assembly so all those on the full scale production. will start already next month with over a whole output expected to generate seventy thousand calls a year now the initial investment into the joint venture our estimate today round three hundred fifty million dollars so we'll be following the business side of the apec forum throughout the day but right now let's focus on the law of the bell has rung here most days so we've got the russian markets to look out right now as we can see you got the r.t.s. a nine tenths of a percent up to my six pounds twelve

a percent in positive territory so far today if we checked. revokes is also moving and shaking will say that it's not she managing to gain i guess the boss says so far today now the euro will be the spotlight that. the the president of the e.c.b. in search of the juice of a plan to save the common cause see right now we've got it out of round two month highs one twenty six zero two in anticipation of all of that for the single currency moving forward to see the other sessions we'll take a look at asia really what's happening in europe is top of the agenda there we've got the make a around ten down that thanks so much to say really both sort of to negative at the moment as investors stay on the shelf all fancy the way shelf. either way not moving a frame much at all as for the ore prices we'll be able to see that they are indeed gaining if we talk about supply i can tell you that it's actually despise the

american petroleum institute is concerned at its lowest level since march for the u.s. in ventris so very that's how the markets live finale back in about fifty five minutes and apec will rule the day we're going to keep track of those deals take advice and also the european markets open shortly as well definitely so while we're looking forward to that and of course as you said is in the spotlight so plenty more to come your way in the world of business and of course here in the news we will be bringing you the state of the european economy in our interview in just a few moments before i've really had one see this.

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