breaking economic barriers of the free trade zone in asia pacific dominate discussions at the apec summit in russia with vladimir putin weighing in. to explosion has rocked damascus as militants in syria boosted by reports of the u.s. sending more agents and france preparing to provide them with heavy artillery. for when he becomes the democratic presidential candidate with more promises of change his opponents say he's failed to deliver on his part which will pledges from four years ago.

online on screen international news and comment live from the new center here in moscow the asia pacific economic cooperation summit living up to its title in vladivostok the emphasis is on working closely to ride out economic problems and ensuring greater energy security and in the putin as president of the host country has been talking about how he sees that working with the rising influence of russia and china's partnership dimitri medvedev is in kind of a stock with. 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 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 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 in a. kind of back all of his thoughts about the importance of this shift towards asia for russia in the next news of 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 role 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 if you actually have 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 geopolitical 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 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 obviously wrong because such behavior in the international arena is the same as

using nationalism and segregation as tools of u.s. domestic policy and you can catch the full version of this exclusive interview that let him approach and gave to see on our you tube channel. and financial consultant says relations between russia and china in many ways are built around counterbalancing u.s. influence. the time between putin and hu jintao have been extremely strong and this has frankly been at the expense of relations with the u.s. and not overtly obviously but when it comes to issues like syria and iran there is a great deal of coordination between the two sides on those political issues then you know these things spill over into the economic side as well of course you know and we're starting to talk about how both countries handle the oil embargo that the u.s. has been sort of pushing on iran you know russia as a producer and china as

a consumer they both you know the fact that they're harmonizing this really sort of helps to. counteract u.s. and u.s. influence and the ability to which the u.s. can exert its influence on its european allies in asia and japan specifically so we're seeing a lot of that. we'll bring you more on the ongoing asia pacific economic cooperation summit in light of our stock in business update later this hour. two bomb blasts of rock the syrian capital damascus one of the explosions was between the justice and information ministry because no casualties but damaged vehicles in the blast is believed to have killed at least five policemen after it went off across the street from a mosque and damage a nearby clinic the news comes amid reports that more u.s.

agents are going to turkey's border with syria to advise and assist anti assad forces in their fight meanwhile france says it's considering supplying heavy artillery to the rebels in order to help them build a provisional government president of the arab lawyers association looked at our says the west is preventing the syrian people from changing their dire situation. i think the western powers have gone where you beyond what was acceptable even and the questionable 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 from actually coming to terms with the government in order to change the government in order to affect the the must stick

change 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 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 fundamentalism is being spread. everywhere but now that the west is trying now even to work with the islamist movement in order to thwart any of the movements in these countries and i think syria definitely the people in syria are looking for the most. see i'm looking for change but at the present moment the west has moved from that goal into really fighting a civil war against the regime over a regime has a responsibility to protect the country to protect even if it's only interest and britain says it's only sending non lethal aid like medicine and generators to

antigovernment fighters in syria but as it is laura smith explains fighters from britain are heading for the front line too. 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 an area m.p. khalid mahmood 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 just kind of support and made work and other. broad 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 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 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 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. the tit for tat and it's work. and i think we literally entering into 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. the formality of barack obama being named the democrats' candidate for reelection in november is out of the way on the closing day of the party's national convention the us president urged voters to help him carry on the changes he began nearly four years ago and mamma said the decisions ahead for washington will affect the lives of americans for decades he also hit back at his opponent mitt romney

doubling the republican a foreign policy rookie and then russia america's number one enemy only responded by accusing obama of offering no you policies and leaving only promises kept the two candidates currently tied in the polls will now campaign ahead of know. what it's going to live now to the u.s. capitol for reaction from foreign service officer kenny. george many a say course obama inherited bush's foreign policy and has continued to pursue much of that policy do you see any change if he were to get back into power if obama were to be reelected would he do something different no yeah. we have a problem in the both parties won't really say what they're going to do when. they win if they win but we know that. the democrats can't do very much because the republicans would obstruct them and we know that there were republicans would do terrible things because the democrats wouldn't oppose them so we have a sort of

a hobson's choice where the republicans are clearly worse but both parties are establishment parties that don't really want to change the status quo very much whether in foreign policy or in domestic policy and to put it bluntly the american oligarchs are going to win well let's talk about those terrible things that the republicans could do that romney has threatened to unleash a trade war in china bomb iran if he comes to power he's already threatened russia by saying is number one foreign enemy we really would all that actually happen if he were to come to power. i don't know about all that but i think that there would be a significantly increased chance of a new war in the middle east perhaps what there ron certainly intervention in syria some sort of greater tensions around the world worse relations with moscow much worse relations with beijing so romney as he is he proved in london at the olympics

really doesn't know the first thing about the plumber c. isn't really that interested in it but would like to be a cowboy and basically would like to preserve the american military industrial complex and and grow it as much as he could so he's a danger obama is a danger in a different sense because obama has as you pointed out quite correctly obama has continued the bush policies made them worse he's pursued drone warfare which annoys people seriously alienates people around the world he's pursued policies that are contrary to civil rights take for example bradley manning or the american pursuit. of julian of songs we have. we have. pushed on the chinese in ways that they clearly don't like as your previous piece alluded to so. nobody should expect that with either

republican or democratic when things will improve very much. i think the best that you can say is that in looking at this election the main player in washington at the moment is probably the federal reserve and they'll probably step in and provide some stimulus so the country as a whole will. keep it above water a little bit. but in the long run i'm not optimistic but i think that. if i could continue for just one second if mr obama world elected we can expect the republicans to agree to obstruct him everywhere and that could set up a situation where mr obama has a choice should he roll over the republicans or be crushed and surrender policy to them and i think that that will be a very interesting development if it happens the debt ceiling for example if the

republicans say no we can't have an increase in the debt ceiling without sweeping cuts in social programs mr obama will have a choice and if he goes the route of unilaterally increasing the debt without congressional approval then we'll have essentially a constitutional crisis the republicans you've mentioned syria and let it with the republicans obstruct obama over the handling of syria we're hearing reports that u.s. agents are going to the turkish border to advise and assist the anti assad forces and some are saying that once this election is over it could actually untie washington's hands in dealing with syria could we see the u.s. really getting directly involved that if obama is elected again. although i think so it's hard to judge the political aspects of this but to me increasingly it seems that the syrian situation has become a bureaucratic problem if you will. the cia everybody with the paulson who works in that kind of world wants to be involved in syria and at this point there are so

many resources focused on the place it would be a miracle if there weren't some kind of western intervention thank you so much live from the u.s. capital ex foreign service officer george kenney thank you canada has ordered all iranian diplomats out of the country and is closing its embassy in tehran ottawa has said it was acting because of the islamic state support for the syrian government its threats against israel and defiance of u.n. resolutions for more on this let's now talk to michele chossudovsky the director of the center for research on globalization based in montreal so kind of this foreign minister he's called iran the most significant threat to global peace and security in the world today is that a fair comment. first of all this announcement it's very it's highly it was made asia pacific economic cooperation summit

we've all star it was intended to be heard there you. iran's alleged support of terrorist organizations and there's absolutely no evidence to that effect but you could always fabricate their words i should mention that in the united states. last year. a manhattan caught a cure. iran of harboring the nine eleven hijackers and i would suspect though that in the days ahead the alleged involvement of of. terror ron paul out of the nine eleven. alleged terrorists will perhaps. this is a tie only state the only moment. is really also very serious this is because it closes down communication isolates iran is

a substitute for debate. it's taking diplomacy and it is creating convoyed flawlessly so to speak i guess that's what this is what the chicken in our white was taken in in washington why michel why is it though that canada is taking this this lead as it were in this isolation of iran. well canada's very much a proxy of the united states we have an integration of the military between the two countries there's consultation in foreign policy it's well known that the harper government really. more or less follows in the footsteps of washington and i think that they wanted suppose i salute canada to take the first there now and said just to say the least that when when foreign minister byrd made the statement he also said well there are no reports of on an actual attack on iran everybody

is talking about an attack on iran israel's talking about it not mama's talking about it it's part of the election campaign and i would. as a canadian who are asking our government to intervene because of. the. us. i just lost you there for a second michel. can you hear me ok there well it's. the other right so are you what you what you've said a little earlier that canada was taking the first step in other words is this mean that we're going to see other countries withdrawing their diplomatic personnel from iran and indeed seeing iranian embassies being closed in other countries around the world is just this i saw. this. you know we had this shuttle. trigger closing down the channels and we see what's happening in the united nations

where the united nations secretary general is taking very. very biased starts with regard to syria and iran so that all acts of diplomacy and mediation and he's still doing are being sprats good thing for our of our possible military strike on iran so let me get this clear you're talking about a military strike in iran in fact saying that diplomatic personnel are being withdrawn because of that threat and obviously we see many embassies around the world being closed because of a potential military strike on a country is this a predator that i can't hear you well is it a prelude to a military strike then we're seeing diplomatic personnel being moved. constitutes a protein anything it's an act of it's a recognition it's very unfortunate because we have to maintain a dialogue with countries and build to use rather than our create conditions which could lead you're you know to a military accidents so i don't understand why canada will take this decision

there's nothing in canada around relations that recent which which would justify this decision other than that the sort of rhetorical terror around is supporting terrorists but in fact if if we want to really analyze who supported terrorists was we could say the united states a neutral country is this of all executives including inside iraq where they're going to be killing you know. scientists that are supporting terrorists in syria so that was turned upside down and unfortunately it can a. history of peace and here should as they'll join the bandwagon of washington and in fact is. done so. it's interesting to hear your views from canada or itself thank you very much indeed michel chose an oscar the director of the center for research on globalization based there in montreal. know over to marina at our business day and

she's got the latest for us now marina yes i do and today of course we are also focusing on that apec summit and russia's far east and top executives there have been discussing any number of issues but most importantly they even debt crisis investments into asia pacific region and also the year and now we caught up with medals died of course elected by a skier and he told us what he thinks should be done in order to save the euro. completely. real balance of trade to real.

opportunity to see true solution was a crisis. with international markets wall street is the only one trading right now and there are still everything is looking very much as investors are struggling to find direction the dow has shot and just not similarly with a nice like slightly behind there we know that there was a report about growth in terms of jobs for the month of august bought some i think that this might be a good thing because the might be the push needed to make the federal reserve act or a new round of stimulus measures and monetary stimulus now if we can move on and. close and we saw a lot of optimism over that today and as you can see the footsie gain the third of a percent of our half a percent all of this was after the european central bank on its bond buying program and mario draghi the presence of the. evill focus on tackling the escalating borrowing costs of countries in the region and he also said that he will

maintain the make sure that they. take a look at the euro right since i've told them they are still strengthen against the u.s. dollar coming from that optimism on the cost of all the clothes and figures there and it was an expansion of the ruble again they can see. we can see the euro and a second look at the russian markets that optimism from europe and asia trickle down to russia investors as well higher oil prices help out in a psych and we saw the artsy as over two percent. one point it was almost three percent in the blanks that when it comes to my sex that and the point really precise and the black all right oil prices said they were going the higher and higher every hour on so we saw this huge turn that began two hours ago and now it's all back up as you can see there on your screen lights with us reading at ninety six dollars and forty eight cents the brand blend out on one hundred fourteen dollars now the reason for the drop and there was the first drop of three days and

five of that was after us a payrolls report showed that it was less than expected and also on speculation that the white house might have to tap into the u.s. petroleum reserve although it's now past we see the figures are positive territory and of this wraps it up for me in the business edition of for now back to you bill . thanks a lot from that and i'll be bringing you the headlines very shortly so off to a short break.

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