breaking economic barriers in the free trade zone in asia pacific dominate discussions at the apec summit in russia where the let me approach in weighing in. two explosions rocked damascus as militants in syria of boosted by reports of the u.s. sending more agents and france preparing to provide them with heavy artillery. plus record bomber formally becomes the democratic presidential candidate with more promises of change but his opponents say he has failed to deliver on his original pledges from four years ago.

online on screen international news and comment line from the new center here in moscow the asia pacific economic cooperation summit is living up to its title in light of all stock the emphasis is on working closely to ride out economic problems and ensuring greater energy security that a new putin is president of the host country has been talking about how he sees that working with the rising influence of russia and china's partnership on these dmitry medvedev is in front of us talk 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 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 it was 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 hours 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 to 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 youtube channel a financial consultant got the money i spoke to me to learn her not to he says relations between russia and china in many ways a 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 court nation 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 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. u.s. influence and 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 our business update that's a little later this hour. two bomb blasts have rocked the syrian capital damascus one of the explosions was between the justice and information ministry because no casualties but damaged vehicles the other blast is believed to have killed at least five policeman after it went off across the street from a mosque and damaged a nearby clinic the news comes amid reports more u.s. agents are going to turkey's border with syria to advise and assist and sound forces in their fight meanwhile france says it's considering supplying heavy

artillery to the rebels to help them build a provisional government the president of the arab allies association says the west is preventing the syrian people from changing their dire situation. i think the western powers have gone where he 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 effect 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 libya we've seen what happened in iraq iraq is no country which is under occupation not just by the usa but by iran as well and fundamentalism is being spread by everywhere but no they are the west is trying now even to work with the islamist movement in order to thwart any of the work ethic movements in these countries and i think syria definitely the people in syria are looking toward 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. and britain says it's only sending non-lethal aid like medicine and generators to antigovernment fighters in syria result his lower smith explains fighters from

britain 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 that he's going to 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 report 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 levon on iraq 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 ideology is 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 and it's the tit for tat and it's like. 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 the support for the syrian opposition laura smith r.t. london. still to come this hour here knotty convenient hostilities in the couple to report on the israeli settlers accusing iran as an excuse to occupy palestinian land. that's the formality of barack obama being named the democrats' candidate for reelection in november is out the way on the closing day of the party's national convention the us president urged focus to help him carry on the changes he began

nearly four years ago about and said the decisions ahead from washington will affect the minds of americans for decades to say back at his opponent mitt romney the republican foreign policy rookie naming russia america's number one enemy responded by accusing him of offering no you policies the only promise is on the two candidates time in the polls campaign ahead of an event despite its foreign service officer george kenny has told me that both men are too dependent on big business to bring positive change. if obama were to be reelected would he do something different no. we have a problem in that 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 and we know that there were republicans would do terrible things because the democrats wouldn't oppose them there would be

a significantly increased chance of a new war in the middle east perhaps with the iran certainly intervention in syria some sort greater tensions around the world worse relations with moscow and much worse relations with beijing 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. some other news around the world this hour in our world update right to the protest is in bahrain as hundreds took to the streets in the heart of the country's capital it follows today's court decision to uphold a guilty verdict for opposition activists accused of plotting to overthrow the government the pro form protest movement in bahrain started in february last year fifty people have died so far most rallies were pushed out of the capital by

a violent police crackdown. four separate attacks on shia mosques of left nine people dead and eighty injured in iraq's northern city of kirkuk the blast went off as worshippers left friday prayers 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. four thousand greek police states of march in central athens angry at being forced to make cuts amid a dramatic rise in crime and suicides some staged fake hangs outside the finance ministry the police face pay cuts as the government tries to qualify for its next bailout payment a new study program for twenty thirteen has yet to be finalized but union leaders want a violent social unrest to come. and fresh from his naked las vegas exploits prince harry is back in uniform and being deployed with patchy attack helicopter for a four month tour in afghanistan the prince was previously there in late two thousand

and seven but was prematurely withdrawn after his presence was made public he is the first member of the royal family to serve in a conflict zone and since his uncle prince andrew who flew helicopters during the one hundred eighty two wins war. 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 in defiance of u.n. resolutions michel chossudovsky the director of the center for research on globalization based in montreal believes canada is being used. this is a high only statement at a timely moment. really also very serious this is because it closes down communication it isolates iran it's taking diplomacy and it is creating carboy diplomacy so to speak this decision was taken in our life it was it was taken in washington canada's very much

a policy 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 merely more or less follows in the footsteps of washington and i think that they want it to size leak out of them to take the first step now it's interesting to say the least that when the foreign minister there made the statements he also said well there are no reports of on actual attack on iran everybody is talking about an attack on iran israel's talking about all of the bombers talking about it it's part of the election campaign gets an act of it's a recreation it's very unfortunate because. we have to maintain dialogue with countries and build peace rather than add create conditions which could lead to you know to a military accidents. 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 their critics say that's a feeble excuse to illegally stay on land that doesn't belong to them. a report. 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 a 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 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 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 if their rhetoric a lot of all of them in the future this is a should not exist and that they don't. remain this eight or 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 where 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 any 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. 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 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 policia r.t. hebron. they could always repeated demands a britain grant safe passage to julian assange that weekly's had to remain in ecuador as london embassy trying to avoid extradition to sweden for questioning of alleged sex crimes he believes he could then be sent to the u.s. in charge of the release of hundreds of thousands of secret diplomatic cables over two weeks ago that we can he said to make his first public appearance since being granted asylum in ecuador calling on the u.s. to stop what he calls a witch hunt on whistleblowers forty is being speaking to nicholas kozlov he's a new york based author and a former academic specializing in latin american history about what the future holds for julian assange and you can watch the full interview this later this hour

with him but here's a brief preview. at first it wasn't really sure how this issue would play for korea politically just because i think a lot of ecuadorians are very poor they confront just a daily battle for survival and so at first i thought this was this is a pretty esoteric issue people have more bread and butter concerns and yet in the past few days you've seen protests in front of the british consulate in quiet killers and the syrian people and it's just been a kind of a bizarre and surreal sight to see indigenous people dressed in traditional clothing with a handkerchief of julian assange which which is very surprising to me so maybe this suggests that maybe this issue resonates that maybe korea has struck a chord and a lot of ecuadorians are. resent the bowling of the united states and they don't like getting pushed around and so they're going to take the this issue.

well over to marina now at the business desk. so what's the latest now to twenty two minutes past ten in the evening here in moscow but we're still focusing on the asia pacific economic cooperation summit of course that's the. story of the week and the basically aside from investments into the asia pacific region top executives there also discuss the huge debt crisis as well as the year of all business artsy caught up with nettles dawns on the exit of boss guy and we asked him what he thinks of the town in order to save the euro. euro to have completely. out of the real balance of trade to real. europe. and. on the level

of power to. create opportunity. for the christ. we are less concerned with international stock markets wall street is the only one trader right now and there things are still pretty much in negative territory as you can see both the dow and the nasdaq shedding just the knowledge there this comes after a report came out showing that jobs growth slowed down sharply for the month of august but some say this may encourage the federal reserve to activate another round of monetary stimulus measures that's of course what investors want to hear if we move on and take a look at what happened in europe a completely different picture because everything there was a very optimistic as we can see the footsie added a third of a percent the german dax added over half a percent and this came after the european central bank and in particular the prize than them are the draw of the veil that presented this newborn buying program and said that it will focus on the tackling the escalator borrowing cost over indebted

countries in the region and also pledged to keep the euro intact let's take a look at how the u.s. perform and against the dollar and the ruble when it comes to your against the greenback it's strengthening and growing the ruble close in figures there for this day friday that is the ruble lost again i should say to the year's dollar weakened against the euro talking about the mobile us take a look at the russian markets where that optimism from the european markets freckle down for us investors as well and we saw the r.t.s. gained over two percent one point it almost reached three percent in the black when it comes to the my sights over one percent in the black there oil prices helped where they were going higher and higher in the beginning of the day then they slipped into negative territory and right now it's back and supposed to not just explain why it dropped into negative territory for a little bit that was the first time in three days and that's as a u.s. payrolls were less than expected anticipated i should say and also the on

speculation that the white house is considering its happiness through the u.s. its egypt petroleum reserve all of that seems to be pointless and as you can see investors bounce back and i'm no longer thinking about that all right bill that's back on your mind right now. ok marina thanks very much indeed yep thanks and we'll see you a little later in the next shorty's promise to discuss the possible future of june in the sun in our interview but i'll be bringing you the headlines first that will be off to the short break.

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