breaking economic free trade zone in asia pacific. dominating discussions at the apec summit in russia with. the u.s. presence on the border with syria with more agents reportedly training and organizing rebel militias and france meantime says it could be prepared to send heavy artillery to help opposition troops. plus barack obama the democratic presidential candidate with promises of his opponents say he's failed to deliver on his original pledges from four years ago.

just after seven pm moscow time this is with me. the asia pacific economic cooperation summit it's living up to its title in the blood of all stock the emphasis is on working closely to ride out economic problems. energy security vladimir putin as president of the host country has been talking about how he sees that working with the rising influence of russia and china partnership reporting from the vladivostok dimitri. it 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 organization as a forum which provides the grounds to discuss ideas on how to shape global economic

growth its regional integration with you and me driving economic growth forward and of course the fact that apec is such an important organization 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 a 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 the team of troops and kind of backed 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 a person 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 always of the whole world what makes us 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 russia the us presidential race is in the spotlight everybody is talking about it here and what about putin 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 enemy 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 to use but my feeling is that he is a sin see a 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 q 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 already asleep or 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 i gave to see on our youtube channel and r.t. correspondent to meet you have an anchor there reporting from a lot of our stock in the meantime though economics professor. i said that creating an asia pacific free trade zone would help russia and china perhaps contain the overwhelming influence of the united states. the benefit would be to remember who. created on which you are and people meet up with likely people probably in europe within europe and the united states china will benefit. because china is trying to speak with you by the. way they could be popular like the e.u. the united states get enough to eat the important thing and what can people patent

or time you need to hear. if i need to fight the physical concrete all of it being increasing my factors in the rest of the world. the timing right it would help to conquer the power of the united states because every moment the united. of what i did time and all around the who who work with them and what you call the feeling you get why the importance of trying to walk through the closely together. at the business task of keeping us all up to date with the apex wheeling and dealing on going out of our stock. bubble vessels have a laser focus on the it will debt crisis the will and investors also the old surface if it will to get all the details about what is happening or loss as far as business and later this hour.

thanks for joining us here in our to today a two bomb blasts have rocked the syrian capital damascus one of the explosions was between the justice and information ministry as they were called to no casualties but certainly did damage several vehicles other bloss is believed to have killed at least five policeman after it went off across the street from a mosque and damaged a nearby clinic but the news comes amid reports more u.s. agents are going to syria's border with turkey to advise and assist anti assad forces in their fight meanwhile france says it's considering supplying a heavy artillery to the rebels in order to help them build a provisional government of more of this i'm joined by the president of the arab lawyers association. thank a pleasure to see you today sir thanks very much for coming on the program you've been listening to the reports of the ongoing developments as a lawyer what do you make of the possibility that france could soon send

a heavy weaponry to the syrian rebels just three days after u.n. chief ban ki moon blamed the increasing violence on nations who are supplying arms well this is why the. to try and stabilize the situation in syria stop the killing has failed because france italy britain america and the countries assisting in actually pouring more more weapons they are stopping the. talent to stop the killing and the stop the murder and syria they are causing these despite the fact that they are talking about trying to find a solution evidently it's very clear that the western countries are willing to sacrifice to have the population of syria in order to achieve their objective of changing the regime and i must remind us of. when she thought that killing quarter of a million children in iraq is a price worth paying to change the regime there of saddam hussein which you are

talking massive case of double standards here. and you know doing saying one thing and doing an entirely different thing indeed but you are the president of the arab lawyers association how well within international law are the u.s. training camps and quote non-lethal shipments to the fighters in syria i mean one might think that night goggles and encrypted radios are already rather borderline well quite honestly i think this is contrary to the rules of international law this is an intervention. in the internal affairs of a country it's contrary to the charter of the un whereby nations should not be encouraging other countries to have civil wars or indeed to interfere and i think the western powers have gone way beyond what was acceptable even and the question of a matter of trying to. interfere in internal affairs of countries under the pretext of human rights protection of civilians civilians protection of civilians is

a duty it doesn't still allow the intervention internally but here we have a situation which is ten times worse whereby in fact the western powers are stopping the civilian population stopping the revolution from actually coming to terms with the government in order to change the government in order to affect the domestic change but what they are doing at the present moment is putting a veto on anybody discussing with the government and the idea that you cannot work with the people whose hands are full of blood while we did exactly the same thing in britain when we called on the ira to discuss with the government we call on the palestinians to speak to their israelis under the occupation but no we don't do that and syria on the contrary we violate international law we provide them with more arms more weapons and even we put a veto on them discussing with the government exactly as you as you well know

russia and china have been steadfast in their commitment to finding a peaceful dialogue to resolve the crisis. in syria you talk about western powers are heralding a humanitarian crisis to to ultimately excuse them to go in there and do what they like we all know what happened with libya with u.n. resolution one nine seven three talk to us about this if you will there with how do you think the conflict in syria will change as a whole if indeed the rebels get what they need from western nations i mean how hard will it be for president assad to hold on to power well it's going to be very difficult because at the present moment the regime is having to use a lot of force which they wouldn't have otherwise had they not been facing weapons coming from. the turkey and i'm out of the rest of the country but this is not libya and this is no iraq and libya we have libya it was nato who was bombing libya russia took a position against that in iraq it was the nato who went into iraq which is a different situation and the present moment the western powers of my being is that

do not have the stamina the will of the eveleigh t. to actually openly interfere in syria in terms of the international scene and the united nations security council i think the position of russia china and the other countries who are supporting this position makes it difficult to get at is if you shouldn't interfere however they are but these countries that is france britain america actually acting totally outside the remit of international law acting outside the. machinery of the united nations because they have an objective of changing the regime regardless of the price that the syrians are going to pay what you talk about you talk about their objective of changing the raese right regime in syria why why would they want to do that what is that again for them well in the first instance this regime in syria is viewed by the western powers as anti israel

anti west nationalist movement it's a dead. yes but this is not the only dictatorship saudi arabia is not exactly the mother of the more closely but nobody talks about that one although the turn of saudi arabia will be coming shortly with the arab spring but i think at the end of the day the western powers want to change the existing regimes because that regime is the only one that is left that is not pro west we've seen what happened and libya we've seen what happened in iraq iraq is no country which is and occupation not just by the usa but by iran as well and fundamentalism is being spread by everywhere but now they and the west is trying now even to work with the islamist movement in order to thwart any of the the work ethic movements in these countries and i think syria definitely the people in syria i'm looking for democracy are looking for change but at the present moment the west has moved from that go into

really fighting a civil war against the regime and the regime has a responsibility to protect the country to protect even if it's only interest let's let's not. fool around about this what the regime in syria want to stay in power whether for mathematics reasons for what it's all and go all objectives this is the objective at the present moment but that is that objective is contrary to the western policy especially the french and the british and the american foreign policy because that regime is not a friendly regime as they see it and in fact this is one of the reasons they keep on saying that the russians position is not a moral one not a legal one not a proper well it is best interest of pressure because it's of the bases because of those basic set up of course you know i mean of course of course we keep we keep

having our members are certainly from the u.n. certainly the americans and western european leaders saying that russia and china need to reassess the situation on syria when the whole time russia and try to are saying we're calling for a peaceful dialogue. the president of the arab lawyers association we're just out of time but thanks so much for coming on our to you today. thank you. well britain says it's only sending known lethal aid like medicine and generators to antigovernment fighters in syria about as aussies laura smith explains fighters from britain are heading for the front line as well. 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 him area m.p. khaled mahmoud says some in his community have already gone there is

a particular individual who's actually now gone back to baghdad at the moment and has came 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 say that he's going to support them 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 their 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 revealed

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. 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 point 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. to i think literally entering into a religious civil war. 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. thanks for joining us on r.t. today the formality of barack obama being named the democrats' candidate for reelection in november is out of the way in the closing days of the party's national convention the us president to voters to help him carry on the changes he began nearly four years ago obama said the decisions ahead for washington will affect the lives of americans for decades he also hit back at the opponent mitt romney doubling the republican a foreign policy rookie naming russia as america's number one romney responded by accusing obama of offering no new policies and leaving old promises unkept by the two cabinets currently tied in the polls when al campaign ahead of november's vote one analyst told our. office any serious change. in romney i think is a great example of what's wrong with america that he's obviously he's highly his

taxes for the american people as was know the truth about his clients is he sending money or sure he created he became wealthy by destroying u.s. businesses and create more jobs overseas 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's supported by wall street he supported by the health insurance industry put in place policies that supported corporate agenda so neither of these kids really represent the people they resent the big business moneyed interests and not the people who you know the only two 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 . foreign policy based on empire either romney or obama will

confront these issues and there you will hear even discussion about breaking up the big banks you want here any discussion about amending ending u.s. empire or cutting the military budget. twenty minutes past the hour moscow time let's start with iraq now in the r.t. world update at least four separate attacks on shia mosques of left nine people dead and eighty injured in iraq's northern city of kut a cork of the blasts went off as worshippers left friday prayers by the worst was in the south of the city where an initial explosion killed four people two more bombs were set off as police and rescuers arrived in what appears to be a coordinated attack. over four thousand greek police station a march in central athens angry are being forced to make cuts amid a dramatic rise in crime and suicides at some stage hanging outside the finance ministry the police face as the government tries to qualify for us next to bail out payment or the new austerity program for two thousand and thirteen yet to be

finalized but union leaders warn of violent social unrest to come. and the has ordered all of iran's diplomats out of the country and is closing its embassy in tehran ata were said it was acting because of the islamic state support for the syrian government its threats against israel and defiance of u.n. resolutions that as foreign minister called iran the most significant threat to global peace and security in the world today. well the hypothetical threat of an attack by iran is being used by hundreds of israeli families who are refusing to leave the largest city in the west bank but the critics say that's a feeble excuse to illegally stay on land that doesn't belong to them his policy or reports i. 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

a 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 and 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 use in tel aviv or in haifa or anywhere else and instead of pointing fingers of palestinians the secular movement has begun championing the claims of iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad he strikes fear and uncertainty in the hearts of most israelis is their rhetoric

their lot of all of them in the future this is a should not exist and that they don't tell us remain they say it or and over again but the hostile talk from tehran is having unintended consequences the settler movement is mocking up madonna 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 or 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 empty settlement protestors 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 day 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. 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. and ordinary israelis will remain focused on the outside. rather than look at what is happening in the backyard. hebron. well let's turn our attention back to the apec summit ongoing in the russia's far eastern of lot of off

the system itself part of it is right here in moscow still marina good to see you again you've been speaking to some big names there what's what's going on a lot of us don't exactly well it seems to be that the focus of the discussions is investments into the asia pacific region also of course the debt crisis that's a hot topic everywhere right now and the euro and business article where the metals lie where the legs and what we did was ask him what he thinks of it and in order to save the euro this is what he had to say. how. completely. real balance of trade to real. europe. create opportunity. to solution for the christ. it is now the

second hour of the action on wall street and there the floods it started off mix than the one supposed to territory and right now as you can see the negative territory but as of inside this struggling to find direction in this sector report show that jobs growth of slowed down sharply for the month of august many investors say maybe this is the push that is needed to make the federal reserve implements more money terry stimulus that's what they want to hear now from move on and take a look at europe the markets are will close in literally a couple of minutes from now and there is full of optimism the foot seems atika about a quarter of a percent and that there are back to where half a percent back and this is after the european central bank and margaret throsby of course the prize for their announced that it's a bond buying program that's that avoids the escalating borrowing costs of it and that to countries in the region also mentioned that you would need to grow in time and if we see the euro right now as it is against the u.s.

dollar we'll see that it's gaining when it comes to the ruble right to go see it in just a second i would go the ruble rates are manx at right now these are the closing figures in fact and as you can see ruble is gaining against the us dollar and the loss to the euro when it comes to russia markets that optimism truckle down here as well and we saw the r.t.s. head over to the side and then my socks over one boil prices were helping for most of the day that's before the start of decline and then they're still declining right now and all this comes of course this at first a lot like russia is the first time in three days that it's dropping and this is after a report for us here always includes the less than expected as also for the month of august and some say that perhaps the u.s. will have to tap into it since egypt patrolling the loser if that's the concern and this is our business looks this hour from one sound or this is your last hour and you can go and enjoy your weekend and your we missed a billboard in the next time yes lucky thing. got up in this hour all day long the

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