breaking economic barriers in the free trade zone in asia pacific dominate discussions at the apec summit in russia with their putin weighing in. two explosions rocked damascus as militants in syria are boosted by reports of the u.s. sending more agents and france preparing to provide them with heavy artillery. guns barack obama formally becomes the democrats' presidential candidate with more promises of change but his opponents say he's failed to deliver on his original 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 is living up to its title in russia's far east the emphasis is on working closely to ride out economic problems and ensuring greater energy security is that of a 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 artie's dmitri medvedev is in vladivostok with more. 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 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 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. 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 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 billion 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 a person has said that he is ready to work with either candidate mitt romney 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 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 on legislator 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 out of money says that relations between russia and china are 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 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 the five us talk in our business update 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 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 u.s. agents are going to turkey's border with syria to advise and assist 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 says the west is preventing the syrian people from changing 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 there and we've seen what happened in iraq is no country which is i don't know if you're patient not just by the usa but by iran as well for the mentalism is being spread. everywhere now that the west is trying now even to work with islamist movements. toward any of the movements in these countries and i think syria definitely the people in syria i'm looking for democracy are looking. for a change of 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 to its own interest. and britain says it's only sending non lethal aid like medicine and generators to antigovernment fighters in syria but as artie's nora 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 all going to syria to fight for the opposition bumming an area m.p. khaled mahmoud says some in his community have already gone there is a particular individual who's actually gone back to baghdad at the moment and has came 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 signed the support and made work and other. rides saying that they're going to support the resistance some says mahmud of british syrian extraction others of 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 rivers 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 kills fourteen people in combined suicide attacks 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 are 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 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 it's 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 this support for the syrian opposition laura smith r.t. london. well still to come this hour here in r.t. convenient hostilities in a report on the radio settlers using iran as an excuse to occupy palestinian land. but first the formality of barack obama being named the democratic candidate for reelection in november is out 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. the decisions ahead for washington will affect the lives of americans for decades he also hit back at his opponent mitt romney the republican foreign policy rookie for naming russia america's number one enemy for using a bomb and offering no policies and leaving promises kept the two candidates currently tied in polls will now campaign had a live embers vote live to new york now for reaction from jeffrey the senior fellow sentry foundation on international affairs well let's go straight to foreign policy issues how much do a romney differ on foreign policy. but you have a very fundamental difference between obama and romney in terms of american playing by the rules of international law the united nations system or american exceptionalism america writing its own rules and so from that core of fundamental

distinction which is in a sense the same distinction is between obama and bush before him you do have somewhat different trajectory but on key issues such as israel palestine and on iran's and its nuclear weapons program relations with europe and a relation with a peaceful and prosperous china you have a good deal of convergence but it's on those testy issues of us as part of the international order or as running the international order so you have an inner tension that defines those two trajectories and indeed president obama in his speech last night noted that the inexperience strongly ryan ticket basically promised to return to what he called the quote blundering and blustering and call of what had been the trademark of president george bush's year let's talk about that iran issue you said they could be convergence on that so does that mean that all of the election we could actually see some sort of military campaign against

iran which so many experts do predict. well i actually think that if you have an obama reelection that the prospects for a military strike diminished considerably obama is almost desperate to avoid an israeli military attack before the election and the israelis calculate that with the election behind him they have much less leverage over obama. he would be much readier to make a deal with tehran assuming that tehran is ready at that point as part of a deal to step up to the basic conditions that the p five plus one negotiating framework had said on behalf of the security council now the u.s. war in iraq saverin afghanistan is winding down washington arguably has more freedom to act elsewhere could syria be the next target whoever gets it well interestingly president obama's point was that he and his basic campaign reelection

themes on foreign policy side which aren't that significant for most voters are one end of the war in iraq two i am winding down the war in afghanistan and we are taking out al qaeda and he clearly is suggesting he's not in the market for new wars thank you. whether you would have a crisis that would compel u.s. intervention or not it's pretty clear that in syria all of the factors for at least the current administration in policy making say don't go their own. administration has been quite clear and holding back that's why it was ready to play in the arena of. act group plan to try to resolve the syrian crisis. peacefully and get some kind of deal they don't want to go there even indirectly militarily by providing military aid to the rebels

they don't know who all these rebels are and they certainly are not prepared to go in for a military operation this ain't libya. you're sitting there in new york here in moscow we've got to talk about the russia u.s. relations resetting of relations actually seem to have stalled haven't they with deepening rails over the european missile defense in the middle east obama's promise that he will be more flexible with moscow after the election of course romney's called russia the number one enemy how do you see the future of relations between the two now. well president putin statement today taken together with president obama's commitment to finding a new round of nuclear arms reductions and second continued cooperation with russia on managing the problems in the middle east from rand's nuclear program to serious crisis to israeli palestinian peace all that suggests that if he is reelected that you're going to see this reset bumpy as it occasionally may be

continuing to play out he certainly did now it's mitt romney for having that quote cold war time warp mindset and his speech last night. governor romney would probably be more realistic than the speech comments he's made till this point but he clearly does reflect the continuing suspicion in much of his political base the conservative side of the american towards russia particularly force president putin who may still insist on portraying a key k.g.b. shaped political figure. you would have more suspicion but in the end even george bush had to try to work with the russians it's just that when they don't play by the same order for rules as the rest of the international community it's hard for the conservatives in washington to be able to forge close relationships with anyone particularly when they're suspicious based on forty sixty years of suspicion

president putin of course in the far east of russia now that apec summit the u.s. is shifting move military focus to the asia pacific region just briefly what could all this be heading because it's seemingly stepping on china's toes there's a lot of friction between the two just briefly. there is a good deal of suspicion in china about american intentions the so-called military shifting is very small potatoes a few thousand people in australia but it is seen in china as the first step the camel's nose in the tent of a much more vigorous military presence by the americans i think the u.s. government is aware that it cannot make china into an adversary and the diplomatic moves even are treated with suspicion by the chinese on trying to have a fair settlement of the territorial disputes in the south china sea. really come out of foreign policy issues here in just

a few minutes to really appreciate your answers there in your opinion generally senior fellow at the century foundation on international affairs in new york we appreciate it tom thank you. canada has ordered all iranian diplomats out of the country and is closing its embassy in tehran ottawa's said it was acting because of the islamic state support for the syrian government and its threats against israel and defiance of u.n. resolutions michel chossudovsky i spoke to him a little earlier the director of the center for research and globalization based in montreal believes that canada is being used. this is a high only statement the only moment. really also very serious this is because it closes down communication it isolates iran it's taking diplomacy and it is creating convoy diplomacy so to speak this decision was taken in our why it was it was taken in washington 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 merely more or less follows in the footsteps of washington and i think that they wanted to put science 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 an actual attack on iran everybody is talking about an attack on iran israel's talking about it not promise talking about it it's part of the election campaign it's 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 stale learned that doesn't belong to them what is paulus levels. 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 under international law and so they justify their presence in part by looking for an enemy the fact that. there is a distinct target to get the jews out of her own is not a and and in and of itself it's a means to an end that being that they don't want to use in her own they don't want

to is in jerusalem but even more than that they don't want to is in tel aviv or in haifa or anywhere else and lately instead of pointing fingers of palestinians the secular movement has begun championing the claims of iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad he 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. remember saying it over and over again but the hostile talk from tehran is having unintended consequences the settler movement is mocking ahmadinejad's comments inadvertently putting him in the camp when israel's most widely circulated daily newspaper recently listed the safest cities to live in a time of emergency most israelis didn't notice that listed among the so-called cities of refuge 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 empty settlement protesters is calling on the government to cool down and stop buying into the politics of fear it's obvious that the government is talking about iran as a diversion diversion from the no peace with the palestinians with the with what's going on with the settlements with the amount of money that there's reading 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 a settlement and ordinary israelis will remain focused on the great outside their borders rather than look at what is happening in the own backyard police here r.t. hebron let's cross to our business desk now for a final review pretty. twenty three twenty five here in moscow it was a good day for the markets well i would say if we don't like wall street and so accounting was a very positive day for the russian markets the european markets and the asian markets but what russian investors were focused on and particular was the apec summit of course in russia's far east and top executives there were discussing not only investments into the asia pacific region but they're also discussing the debt crisis and business r.t. . metals and magnets and ask them what he things should be done in order to save the euro and this is what he had to say.

completely. real balance of trade to real. opportunity to see true solution for the great. wall street and see what's happened in the. us from its foreign direction that's where we're seeing that the figures are pretty much flat to negative the dow and the guys that set in just going on what happened there we got a report that showed jobs growth for the month of august slowed sharply and of course that didn't act well sit well with investors they do believe that perhaps this is the push needed for the federal reserve to take action and inject some of the monitor stimulus that. as i mentioned earlier was very

positive and i suppose after the european central bank and surprise them are. bought by programme and said that it's all about tackling the growing foreign cost of and that the countries in the region. also pledged to keep a second look at the euro and how it's performing against the u.s. dollar and it's continuing to strengthen as you can see there when it comes to the ruble a mixed picture at the end of the trading session this friday with take a look at the markets will see that the optimism from europe and asia trickle down to us investors as well the arts yes and that over two percent in the black and the my sights of one percent one thing that helped was rising oil prices although they did slip into negative territory for a little bit for the first time in three days and that was because of u.s. payroll reports showing that it was less than the. and at the say. in time it was all speculation that the white house is considering tap an end to the u.s.

it's into crooks only of reserves but as you can see that didn't have much of an impact on investors it was only going down for about two hours and as you can see the lights will spread around ninety six dollars per barrel and the price by that around one hundred fourteen and this brings you up to date with what's been happening in this friday in the world of business back to you bill thanks and have a good weekend and yet we'll see you soon we'll be bringing you the headlines after this break and right after that it's over the people of ellen is guest to cross-talk the u.s. presidential election.

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