nations turning out half the world's economy come together over trade and common solutions and the far east while the forums host president putin spoke exclusively to our team about global concerns. international aid for the syrian rebels the u.s. is reportedly sending teams to advise opposition fighters while france could be considering sending them have your tillery. and offerings leave the public disillusioned the european central bank is finally set to help but angry crowds in greece and spain walk out again stun relenting cuts.

in the russian capital you're watching r t with me marina joshie boosting trade and driving anomic recovery asia pacific nations making up half of the world's population and economy have converged on russia's far east to break all barriers between them before flying out to host the former president putin talked exclusively to r.t. on divisive matters at home and abroad or is in lot of a stock. reviving the world economy is one of the main issues which are being covered at this event which is being held in the city of light of us talk of the ongoing crisis in the eurozone that is actually on the minds and hearts of a lot of people who are here we see are people talking about it just in the corridors and between the sessions there is also of course the issue of pushing for freer trade ahead of the summit the organizers said that they are hoping that as a result of this summit russia will be able to. trade with the countries

and with the united states to compose about fifty percent off its trade and of course among those among those major players whom russia is especially focusing on china now ahead of the apec summit russian president putin has given an exclusive interview to our t.v. where he did touch upon the subject of russia and china's cooperation which is becoming increasingly deeper and more mutually agreeable as time progresses china has taken up this new leading role you know to me in russia but also in the always of the whole world makes this rather special however is that russia and china are neighbors social relations took thousands of years to evolve to where they are. over the coming years we are bound to achieve a one hundred million dollar turnover rate now of course they're going to put in is going to meet with the chinese president hu jintao just later today in fact both

men are sort of the focal focal groups off the summit least for today but of course afghanistan is remaining one of the most volatile hot spots with still have taliban in full effect unfortunately in the country one of the primary concerns for russia is of course the drug trafficking and the drug production in the country unfortunately a lot of the heroin which is being made and produced in afghanistan is being transferred into russia president puts it in his interview expressed a sort of a disillusionment with some of those who really should be helping out russia the u.s. and its allies went into afghanistan was another. all thinking about how they can get out of the nine percent of that country's g.d.p. comes from drug trafficking if you want to replace this nine percent you have to pay no one wants to look at if you go after drugs people will go after you and that's all there is to it everyone those the drug revenues opponent a used to finance terrorism but even this awareness and the realisation that europe is being flooded with afghan produced drugs is not enough to encourage our partners

to seriously tackle this issue and this is very sad increasingly apec is becoming not just about the economy and finances but also about about politics and of course the united states and russia are key players at the time that it's well and the u.s. delegation is headed by secretary of state hillary clinton who is standing in for president obama who couldn't attend this summit who sent his apologies but he had to participate in the democratic convention which is taking place in the u.s. at the moment now of course russia and the u.s. have a lot of issues to discuss with the upcoming elections of course bush leaving nobody an interested it with it's arguable to say we're doing know that for example mitt romney has voiced his concern with russia calling at the united states number one geopolitical enemy and now his point of view is not shared by president obama who doesn't says that russia is a key partner for the united states and a similar peaceful view off their relations between the two countries is also shared by russian president my feeling is that he is a sincere man and that he sincerely wants to implement positive change but can he

do it will they let him do it. i mean there is also the military lobby and the department of state which is quite conservative it cute as for mr romney's position we understand that this is to a certain extent motivated by election campaign rhetoric but i also think that he was always the wrong because such behavior in the international arena is the same as using nationalism and segregation as a tools of us domestic policy and that is part of an exclusive interview which there are some president gave to our team which you. and watch it on our t.v.'s you tube channel that russia and the united states have a lot of things on their discussion table so to speak of some of the issues which they are still disagreeing on of course are syria and of course and also during his interview president bush did mention that russia's position on syria of syria remains the same that we should as soon as possible as a global collective find a solution to the bloody crisis in a country where we're where the fighting and the atrocities seem to escalate and

that absolutely under no circumstances should there be a militarily foreign involvement in the syrian crisis is going to be making a keynote address later on during the day at the apec summit you can watch that live on our t.v. when that happens. in english the reporting from a stock their business consultant. the partnership between russia and china can counter balance the influence of the u.s. . i expect that the two presidents are going to be discussing how they can develop closer economic and political relations this is not a new theme for them this has been going on for decades both with positive and maybe not so positive results over the course of time but i do think that russia and china are very well positioned to develop their bilateral relationship at this particular time given that the u.s. is having some difficulties both with russia and with china on different issues if we look at the bilateral relationship going on now between the u.s.

and china it seems that territorial ambitions on the part of china or the u.s. depending on which perspective you're looking at are causing a lot of conflict on the other hand where russia is concerned there are a variety of issues that are causing conflict between the two countries i think the net result there is that the u.s. may lose out both of these of the russia and visa of the china in terms of its ability to further develop its relations while all these other conflicts are going on between them. and pacific leaders meeting in want of a stock are pushing for freer trade and katie is following events for us at a business that. free trade is one of the main topics tell the focus of the global well it is switching from the west to the east now to boston economy intensive things to do with the rest the w.c. accession is complete we have that in the us is in the business but it's in telling you that. the u.s.

is reportedly ramping up its presence on syria's turkish border sending teams of advisors to assist antacid fighters it's also thought their aim is to monitor the possible al qaida infiltration of rebel ranks washington has resisted calls to engage militarily so far as saying it only provides non-lethal aid meanwhile reports suggest france is considering supplying have your story to the syrian rebel forces paris is also stepping up support for the cause. political opposition offering to help them forge a provisional government. and dol says recognizing the syrian rebels would be a mistake. their long term agenda is introducing a. taliban like fanatical. islamic sharia law in syria and ending the tolerance of different religions which has been the trademark of syrian life for decades under the family.

in general and there are reports of from journalists inside syria over the last months of these so-called opposition in many cases there are al qaeda or mujahideen that have been brought in from saudi arabia and elsewhere and provided guns and weapons. that they have beheaded civilians and blame the atrocities on the assad government so this is really. i don't know what you could call the equivalent of the obvious recognition of a government in exile building a government in exile perhaps if the russian government were to recognize the ku klux klan as a government in exile in america and provided heavy artillery so that they could go to washington or something like that it's just absurd now the british prime minister has reiterated calls for president assad to step down to make way for a new government formed by the syrian opposition as the u.k. continues to provide aid for the rebels there are now fears ordinary britons are heading for the syrian frontline artist laura smith explains. to most britons going

about their everyday lives the war in syria seems worlds away but for a few it's a struggle they feel personally involved in as the u.k. government portrays president assad as an evil dictator there's evidence that britons are going to syria to fight for the opposition bumming him area m.p. khaled mahmoud says some in his community have already gone there is a particular individual who's actually gone back to baghdad at the moment and is going back in a few weeks time who's been engaged in fundraising supporting people and putting people together to go back to their people who signed the support and made work and other a blade ride saying that they're going to support the resistance some says mahmud of british syrian extraction others a british muslims who feel their faith makes this their struggle but whatever their reasons for going the fear is what they'll be when they return they're trained in

the art of warfare but also radicalized as well and then they want to then continues on credit causation they want to bring more people on board and then perhaps they looked to try to. resolve some of the gripes they have here that's blowback that u.k. has already seen from another conflict here in london on the seventh of july two thousand and five the official reports into the seven seventh's bombings reveals the existence of rumors that two out of the four bombers had been to afghanistan for so-called violent jihad back in the u.k. mohammed sidique khan and says that town with together killed fourteen people in combined suicide attack specific and seven bombers were only vaguely known to the authorities and that could be the case for fighters returning from syria too it's all very well to notify the u.k. borders agency but in reality there's very little. well they can do people that may

leave here to fight in syria will not go directly to syria they may stop in turkey or lebanon or arc so the government will not be able to really know the. nation there's no real way of telling whether they're actually going to end up in syria there is no way to know. who when they enter syria who they'll be liaising with. their ideologies necessarily how ideologies and viewpoints might change in syria these are the scenes that could greet them on their return and he islamist organization the english defense league is unlikely to take further radicalization of british muslims lying down creating more bad feeling and deeper fissures in an already divided society pull western whose british freedom party is allied to the e.t.l. says militant groups are preparing for a confrontation we're going to get further and further into this horrible situation of them and us and them and us and then you have small scale violence that starts.

the tit for tat and it's work. and i think we literally entering into religious civil war scenario so far the government's given the syrian opposition eight million dollars for non-lethal equipment including communications but ordinary britons could find themselves paying the far higher price of unrest and insecurity at home for the support for the syrian opposition laura smith r.t. london. coming up in just a few minutes here on r t battle for the white house is under way obama have to accept the nomination from the democratic party and has the live earth he's speaking at the party's national convention. and anime is with benefits' find out why iran is being used as an excuse for israeli settlers to occupy palestinian land. the european central bank has finally brought

out the big guns it's announced it will be buying bonds from struggling eurozone nations to lower their borrowing costs however the bank president stressed governments still need to keep reforming and cutting their deficits and this is not sitting well with the region's population with new comebacks planned athens even saw judges and police walk out of protests were passers set up ma gallows to symbolize how their creditors are strangling the nation a policeman coast guard and firefighter stood with the air hands in a news while in madrid hundreds gathered outside the headquarters to protest what they see as germans interference in spain's financial affairs french economist jock sapir believes the e.c. these plan to buy up government bonds will achieve nothing. the european central bank will buy. on the. same time we re so private corporate bonds it's. increased

global liquidity on the market as a result effect of this. all to the shelf life i don't expect this kind of anti christ plan to work more than two full months he didn't address the main crisis of the eurozone crisis is no object crisis something that it's a complicated to krises and it's as a decrease of groups it collapse of growth we have you know. kountry and on these forums you see is not addressed seen as a real crisis and the problem is the fact that the eurozone is in recession so far and the these no state teams that rescission who'll go on the next two year this is not good news and the e.c.b. is not addressing this problem now barack obama has officially accepted the

nomination as presidential candidate for the democratic party during his convention speech he attacked his rival mitt romney for describing russia. as america's number one anime kevin zeese director of come home america shared his views on the us elections with our team. mitt romney i think is a great example of what's wrong with america that he's obviously a plutocrat he's hiding his taxes for the american people as was know the truth about his clients is he sending money offshore he created he became wealthy by destroying u.s. businesses and create jobs overseas and he's exactly what's wrong with this country on the economic side it's a he's a one percenter and he's the one percenter deep in his heart so he's really what's wrong with president obama the same time you know he supported by wall street he supported by the health insurance industry puts in place policies that support the corporate agenda so neither of these kids really represent the people they

represent the big business moneyed interests and not the people we have the only two party electoral system the country faces very severe problems with the economy with money being funneled to the top the four hundred wealthiest americans have the same wealth as the bottom half of the whole country one hundred sixty million americans if we see a foreign policy based on empire either romney or obama will confront these issues and that you want your anus caution about breaking up the big banks you want to hear a discussion about amending ending the u.s. empire cutting the military budget these issues another table and so we're stuck in a system of corporate political wobbly that is just status quo and the matter who we elect wall street in the military industrial complex wins. and let's now take a look at some other stories from around the world fish. drowned after a turkish fishing vessel carrying migrants hit rocks and sank off the western coast

of turkey the boat was carrying around a hundred people mostly from iraq and syria two suspects have been arrested on smuggling charges turkey has long been a passing point through which immigrants from asia and africa try to make their way . down the fans officials have given nato troops a pamphlet on handling cultural differences between our guests and their us partners of this measure was in reaction to a recent spate of insider attacks by afghan soldiers and policemen on foreign troops forty five soldiers have been killed in such attacks there's january some fifteen percent of this year's total coalition fatalities. are you really relations are on rocky ground according to a recent interview with a u.s. congressman he claims that prime minister of benjamin netanyahu lost his temper at a meeting with the u.s. ambassador last month saying he was at wits and over iran israel has persistently

called upon the u.s. to commit to a preemptive strike on iran over concerns surrounding tehran's program. now the jurors say continues to expand settlements in the palestinian territories further and deepening the past between the two communities and in an unexpected twist iran's condemnation of israel is playing into the hands of those who support the occupation of palestinian land our disposal here in our reports. the call to prayer religious jews walk past a mosque in judaism's second holiest city the scene speaks volumes about the gap between two peoples living cheek by jowl forty five years ago part of his brawn the largest city in the west bank was returned to jewish control since then around six hundred jewish families have lived in the small enclave outnumbered vastly by palestinians they vow they will never be driven out despite the fact that jewish settlement in hebron is widely considered illegal under international law and so

they justify their presence in part by looking for an enemy the fact that. there is a distinct target to get the jews out of her own is not a and and in and of itself it's a means to an end that being that they don't want to use in her own they don't want to is in jerusalem but even more than that they don't want to sing tel aviv or haifa or anywhere else and lately instead of pointing fingers of palestinians the secular movement has begun championing the claims of iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad he stalks fear and uncertainty in the hearts of most israelis if there are through a lot of all of them in the future this is a would not exist and the don't. remain this state or over and over again but the hostile talk from tehran is having unintended consequences the settler movement is mocking ahmadinejad's comments inadvertently putting him in the camp when israel's most widely circulated daily newspaper recently listed the safest

cities to live in a time of emergency most israelis didn't notice that listed among the so-called cities of refuge with civil settlement alongside residential centers within israel proper. is doing for the settlers what they've been struggling to do alone and that is give them legitimacy by terrifying ordinary israelis so they forget to distinguish between israel proper and the settlements but a growing chorus of n.t. settlement protestors is calling on the government to cool down and stop buying into the politics of fear it's obvious that the government is talking about iran as a diversion they version from the no peace with the palestinians with. what's going on with the settlements with the amount of money that they're spreading on the settlements nonetheless the settler movement is moving full steam ahead behind me is palestinian have run permission to drive through this boom comes from the

israeli army that sits here just outside palestinian have run inside. jewish have run this is the perfect example of how israeli settlements and palestinian villages and cities exist on top of each other and for as long as the settlers can play on israeli fear and convince israelis that muslims want to kill them wherever they are they'll continue building new settlements and ordinary israelis will remain focused on the free to outside their borders rather than look at what is happening in their own backyard policy r.t. hebron second day of the apec summit in russia's far is turned city of stark god overweight is the fact katie has got all the latest in our business desk. really we're looking at the deals been struck also there's came a tuesday on about the state of the global economy right now and also really russia's role in all of this now for more details that we've got to me he's in

amongst all the action today areas. a big day indeed at the asian pacific economic cooperation forum here in the island of risky may have led a vostok russia's far east in the spotlight today keynote addresses from china's outgoing president who's in and then of course the head of the forum president vladimir putin is also going to take to the stage to have his views on the cooperation between the pacific rim nations and it's not really a coincidence that russia and china in the center of attention today because china has become a very important trading partner for russia with trade expected to exceed one hundred billion dollars by the end of this year and for the last five years we have seen this shift of focus from europe and to asia now to discuss this i'm joined by the chairman and c.e.o. of young jim jim thank you very much for being with us my pleasure so do you think it's a logical shift for russia to turn towards asia given the economic crisis that we've

gone toward i think it's very logical and i don't think it's just because of the economic crisis in europe i think we are living through a very big shift right now a shift from a century really where the center of economic activity in the world was the atlantic ocean in the north atlantic in the region on both sides to the pacific north and south in the regions on either side of that and so i think the apec is so important for just that reason i think russia's pivot not ignoring europe but really amplifying their efforts in asia pac is very very smart all right one of the main goals today is liberalizing trade now that russia is in the w c o how far can they go but i think the w t o ascension was incredibly important the leadership that the russian government showed was great and i think it's a springboard not just for w t o but for all totally always cd participation and so i think it is the beginning of great things and kudos to everybody who work all around the world to make it happen all right jim kelly thank you so much for being

with us that was the global chairman and c.e.o. of ernst and young talking to us here live at the apec summit and do stay tuned of the updates from throughout the day. indeed keeping track of all the action in the highlights forest we're going to stay russia for now and check out the equity markets which were open for about twenty five minutes or so right now we're looking at all the to the figures as investors here really take their cues from the rest of the global eggs the markets that are enjoying a rally at the moment and months despite oil prices taking a recent decline so we're watching that one will also check out how the ripples going on because that too is moving and shaking in the session the friday session and it's actually losing out we are expecting that tend to be change as the session goes on it's certainly early days right now though we've got the year up there and it's one twenty six thirty five now as i say is indeed coming liming and that's

after the european central bank presume to purchase unlimited bonds from indebted countries dealing with escalating costs to save the euro that you're looking at right there because the asian markets then we'll see that they are still heading north and that's because of those details coming from the meeting really boosting momentum of an export is in tokyo really benefiting i can tell you that the nikkei is actually closer i suppose in figures for japan it just doesn't say exports as they were among the top gainers really helped along by a drop in the yen overnight to get the bureau we've all stocks in china they're still going on surging as authority is pushed out infrastructure projects aimed at providing stimulus to the leading economy so lots of the months of this friday's will street stocks rose and that was off to be all the private sector jobs report was so bright and sentiment in session allows one day before the release of the

more closely watched. payrolls later this friday we're going to keep track of that but in the next hour europe will take center stage we are expecting gains but i have the figures for you also watching the situation and there's a lot of things to keep track of are you there katie and shortly here on r t would of course whether the u.s. can afford such a global military presence and that's after the headlines. you .

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