breaking down barriers between asia pacific nations. the president spoke exclusively to us about global. international aid for the syrian rebels the u.s. is reportedly sending teams to advise opposition fighters. could be considering sending them all over. the european central bank is finally said to help. greece.

a pleasure to have you with us here on our to today. live in the russian capital driving recovery in the global economic downturn ending economic protectionism and ensuring energy security for its partners in russia's far east president vladimir putin outlined the issues at the gathering of asia pacific nations i wish to make up half of the world's population and economy. is in flood of a stock. he started by praising the role of apac as both an organization which accounts for no less than fifty percent of the world's trade g.d.p. and of course investment but also as a organisation as a forum which provides the grounds to discuss ideas on how to shape global economic

growth its regional integration which is in the end driving economic growth forward and of course the fact that apec is such an important organisation demands a common responsibility for all the actions that they are taking in order to avoid basically european scenarios now a huge role of course of devoted to limiting protectionism within this region and also russia has a specific role within a pack of course it needs to use its vast resources including oil and gas in order to provide energy security within the region and also its vast territories including that of its customs union with kazakhstan and belarus to build a bridge basically between asia and europe but also that improves and kind of back all of his thoughts about the importance of this shift towards asia for russia in an exclusive interview that he gave to several days ago one of the main issues of

course the importance of trade with china which has become one of the most important partners for russia with trade expected to exceed one hundred billion dollars through out the end of this year let's listen to what the g.o.p. has actually had to say during that exclusive interview with r.t. china's taking up this new leading row i know tony in russia's eyes but also in the eyes of the whole world what makes this rather special however is that russia and china are neighbors and our special 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 and of course is not only china in that region which is playing an increasing role russia has also announced that it is in negotiations with new zealand and vietnam to create a free trade zone and also of a person said that tens of other nations have filed applications to have these kind

of negotiations with the us presidential race is in the spotlight everybody is talking about it here and what evolution has said that he is ready to work with either candidate mitt romney who gets elected or barack obama gets reelected even though mitt romney indeed has said that russia is america's geo political and the number one. also said that barack obama is a person he sees which is ready to do a lot for mutual cooperation between russia and the united states but that depends on how much he is allowed 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 that there is also the military lobby and the department of state which is quite conservative in cuba 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 just clear wrong because such behavior in the international arena is the same as using nationalism and segregation as a tools of us domestic policy and you can catch the full version of this exclusive interview that gave to see on our you tube channel. to me to my franken reporting right there from a lot of our stock meantime political analyst joseph chang says russia and china can counterbalance the power and influence of the united states. russia and china up wolf you may say emerging major powers and they have the common objectives of building the multipole know it well and painting the influence of the united states as the sole superpower china certainly sees is partnership with russia as well as is participation in the prick's rule has a very important in. math and is known as

a very important stab to promo its own economic role of proof and securing. role materials and opening up new markets and of course. china and russia believe that these share many common interest concerning many international issues and down fall they're joining hands and at tamms to secure a food to support from the food whoa are seen as important and significant scamps to promo. influence to geta in international affairs. well the asia pacific leaders meeting in. pushing for a trade off following those events for.

about a fifteen minutes time for now the u.s. is reportedly ramping up its presence syria's turkish border sending teams of advisors to assist fighters it's also thought their aim is to monitor the possible infiltration of al qaeda rebels into the ranks washington has resisted calls to engage militarily so far saying it only provides non-lethal aid meanwhile reports suggest france is considering supplying heavy artillery to the syrian rebel forces is also stepping up support for the country's political opposition offering to help them forge a government. recognizing the syrian rebels could be a massive mistake. their long term agenda is introducing

a. taliban like fanatical. islamic sharia law in into syria and ending the tolerance of different religions which has been the trademark of syrian life for decades under under the all assad family. in general and there are reports of 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 on the assad government so this is a really. i don't know what you could call the equivalent of the obvious recognition of the government in exile really 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

against washington or something like that it's just absurd. for the british prime minister meantime 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 that there are now fears that ordinary britons are heading for the syrian frontline this explanation to wattis lorson. 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 all going to syria to fight for the opposition bumming an area and mahmoud says some in his community have already gone there is 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 get people who say they're just going to support and aid work and other. rides saying that they're going to support the resistance some says mahmoud 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 the looks to try to. resolve some of the gripes they have here that's blowback the 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 town with together killed fourteen people in combined suicide attack the seven 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. 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 full western who's 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 and then it's the tit for tat and that's why. you know i think we literally entering into a 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 this support for the syrian opposition laura smith r.t. london. just a few minutes here on the battle for the white house is well underway of iraq obama

has officially accepted the nomination from the democratic party but his speech at the party's national. enemies it with the benefits iran is being used as an excuse for israeli settlers to occupy palestinian land. is he. download the official location so choose your language stream quality and

enjoy your favorite. t.v. is not required to watch on t.v. all you need is your mobile device watch r.t. any time any. it's good to have you with us here on r.t. today now 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's president stressed the governments still need to keep reforming and continue cutting the deficit and while this is not sitting well with the region's population with new cutbacks planned athens even saw judges and police walking out in protest protestors set up mock gallows to symbolize how their creditors are strangling the nation a policeman coast guard and firefighter all stood with their heads in

a noose meantime in madrid hundreds gathered outside the e.u.'s headquarters to protest what they see as germany's interference in spain's financial affairs french economy here believes the e.c.b. supplants a buyout government bonds will ultimately achieve. the european central bank will buy ten bonds from one year to three years in the same time we resell private corporate bonds it's called civilization not to increase global liquidity on the market as a result effect of this strategy ought to be short lived i don't expect this kind of anti christ plan to work more than three to four months he didn't address the main crisis of the eurozone crisis is not a crisis of the debt it's a competitive edge to krises and by the way it's as a decrease of growth the collapse of growth we have in

a lot of eurozone kountry and for the e.c.b. is not addressed seen as a real crisis and the problem is the fact that the eurozone is in a recession so far and we see the is now stating that rescission cool go on for the next year this is not good news you know and the e.c.b. is not addressing this problem. are to live from moscow this is r t just a moment on the world update a phenolic 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 and not al-qaeda as america's number one enemy kevin zeese the director of come home america a shared his views on the us elections with us here at odds say. mitt romney i think is a great example of what's wrong with american politics he's obviously

a blue kratz is hiding his taxes for the american people is wants know the truth about his finances be sending money offshore he created he became wealthy by destroying us businesses and create losing our 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 the one percenter deep in his heart so easily what's wrong with president obama the same time you know he supports my wants you supported by the health insurance industry puts in place policies that support the corporate agenda so neither of these candidates really represent the people they resent the big business moneyed interests and not the people we have a phony 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 and we see a foreign policy based on empire either romney or obama will confront these issues

and that you will hear a discussion about breaking up the big banks you want here in discussion about amending ending u.s. empire cutting the military budget. this is r.t. and this news just in syrian state t.v. says that a bomb has exploded near a mosque in north damascus or at least a number of casualties several this moment being reported the fighting between government and rebel forces continues near the capital and in several other cities as well here in r.t. we'll certainly keep you updated on the story as we get more information now into the r.t. world up there we go will start with china where. it's killing at least forty three people destroying some twenty thousand homes. major city in the united province saw a building shake when the five point six quake struck you now it is the neighbor of the province which was devastated by the earthquake of two thousand and eight that claimed almost ninety thousand lives. defense officials have given nato

troops a pamphlet on handling cultural differences between local security forces and their us partners this measure was in reaction to a recent spate of insider attacks by afghan recruits and policemen on foreign troops forty five soldiers have been killed in such attacks since january some fifteen percent of this year's total coalition fatalities. u.s. israeli relations are again on rocky ground troops according to a recent interview with a u.s. congressman he claims of prime minister benjamin netanyahu lost his temper at a meeting with the u.s. ambassador last month saying he was quote at wits and over iran israel has persistently called upon the u.s. to commit to a preemptive strike on iran of course over concerns surrounding tehran's nuclear program. now the jewish state continues to expand settlements in the palestinian territories further deepening the impasse between the two communities and in

a rather unexpected twist iran's condemnation of israel is actually playing into the hands of those who support the occupation of palestinian land. ports. was 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 the part of hebron 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 have wrong 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 trees in jerusalem but even more than that they don't want to sing tel aviv or in haifa or anywhere else and lately instead of pointing fingers of palestinians the settler movement has begun championing the claims of iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad he stalks fear and uncertainty in the hearts of most israelis if their rhetoric their lot of faith means but all of them in the future this is not exist and that they don't. remain the same over and over again but the hostile talk from tehran is having unintended consequences the set in 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 were several settlements 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 anti settlement protesters is calling on the government to cool down and stop buying into the politics of fear it's obvious that our government is talking about iran as a diversion diversion from the no peace with the palestinians with the with the 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. 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 cities can play on israeli fear and convince israelis that muslims want to kill them wherever they are they'll continue building their settlements and ordinary israelis will remain focused on the freight outside their borders rather than look at what is happening in their own backyard. r.t. hebron now we have our team of business correspondents and other correspondents in vladivostok a monitoring of the ongoing apec summit as i keep track of all the. katie and her team keeping their fingers on the business aspects as well right absolutely we're one big team and we were it's what it's all about right now we're just looking at the top executives coming from all over the world as a country and they have gathered in russia's far from investment into the asia pacific region a lot of discussions have been devoted to the european sovereign debt crisis we can't really escape the elephant in the room so now business altie caught up with

a billion that metals magnate or they've got a past he knows if they go to about money and he spoke to us about what could save the single cars a is a need to revise. your euro to have completely. out of the real balance of trade to real. competitiveness of european race and you are already said that. on the level you want to project a dollar i think. it's creates an opportunity to speak to solution to christ. let's check out the markets because right now will be able to see that the european stocks are gaining a lot from the outcome of the european central bank meeting hopes were high and president mario draghi delivered what investors as well grow presenting his much anticipated long touching plan which is aimed at reducing the borrowing costs of

indebted countries with the aim of keeping the euro intact so with that in mind as have a look at the comprising now see that it is indeed still managing to get a not so as cold is once again restored to the time being on the way as for the ruble as you can see it is indeed makes now also it's higher against the u.s. dollar a low against the year as the euro reaches those two young guys one small here in moscow the extreme of his still getting taking their cue from the international markets ready benefits in as well from oil prices which to ok we'll have a look at those later i want to support the asian markets as well because they said it all offers a drama that they were the first ones to react to the e.c.b. the meeting now called we had sex in china and home called had the best performance session in eight months now the region as i say was the first one to react that domestically the chinese government is making efforts to pull some growth into the

strong economy by introducing a number of in the structure of projects including eighteen subways are going to be building as roces jobs as was out of habit or because i didn't mention them as i say with the prices again at the moment others often do say earlier on in the session they are now trading near the highest level this week and thus despite early reports showing that jobs growth in the u.s. the biggest consumer of the commodity a slow rate so that is the market that is the business we've got the whole of all business. for you the next lesson on how often joy my weekend i'll be back on monday but for business or world reserve could enjoy yourself. the headlines in just a moment here on r.t. but then we do take a look at last year's a tragedy one tragedy in particular that shook russia will be right after the headlines in just a. they

were young and high flying. their careers were on takeoff. that flight for them was one of many. and the last one.

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