this nation pacific nations hope to jumpstart global economic growth at the apac summit in russia's far east with developing giants russia and china building a closer bond. greek fury over crippling cuts spread from athens to the country's second largest city as thousands of people including police are to protest against a fresh a sturdy package. and canada cards diplomatic ties with iran over its nuclear program and support for the syrian regime expect a move seen as part of the u.s. led campaign to increased of ron's isolation.

it is eleven am in the russian capital you're watching r t with me wearing the joshie leaders of nations that make up half the world's population are getting down to business for the apec summit in russia's far east a bit spurring global growth asia pacific economies gathered in lot of us stocks are seen as the best bet for fueling recovery with traditional powerhouses like the u.s. and europe flagging are designing the list goes following developments out of form . chinese president hu jintao said that right now the global economy has reached a critical point and in order to ensure stability and prosperity china is ready to take on that role of the power locomotive to pull the world the global economy out of this crisis so it's really no surprise that russia is looking increasingly more and more towards its close neighbor and the moscow and beijing

seem to agree on the lot of matters and not just in matters concerning the economy but also concerning politics as well and now of course russia has a lot to offer to china and china is ready and willing to receive whatever russia has to offer of course we can expect the united states to be somewhat worried about china which it probably sees as its main rival as some have suggested but of course the united states to a geisha is here right now u.s. secretary of state has met with russian foreign minister sergei lavrov bright and early this morning they were discussing again not just economic matters a but political as well you have to understand that apec summit increasingly becomes not just a financial vessel but also kind of a hot air we now for discussions on the sidelines and matters concerning political issues as well the talks about syria naturally spoke about the russian foreign minister said that russia has expressed yet again its dissatisfaction with the fact that as syria gets continuously appointed with sanctions and he talked about the

pointlessness of such sanctions president obama sent his regards and apologise saying that he couldn't be here of course he has to be present at the democratic convention of course the united states right now is in the midst of its election campaign we do know that the presidential elections are coming up and we. heard from mitt romney said that russia is the u.s. political and the number one force when it isn't shared by president barack obama who said that that kind of thinking is indicative of a quote we're era. mindsets of course president obama was praised by the good person in his interview to r.t. 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 to pick i mean that there is also the military lobby and the department of state which is quite conservative would be cute 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 or what you see you're wrong because such behavior in the international arena is the same as using nationalism and segregation as a tools of us domestic policy if you will course watch the full version of this interview on artie's you tube channel in english the reporting there a financial consultant says. the growing ties between russia and china counterbalance the influence of the u.s. both economically and politically the time between putin and hu jintao 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. and u.s. influence and really 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 while we have more a live updates and analysis from the apec summit in russia's far east so join us for that throughout the day. to europe now our debt crippled greece is braced for more protest against a new round of severe spending cuts the country's e.u. creditors are demanding that eleven point five billion euro staring packages adopted to secure a vital rescue loans and this time it's not just the capital where people are fewer

us where the plants thousands are expected to take part in an anti-government rally in greece the second largest city this weekend are just there all of our reports greece's economic problems are well documented but they don't show signs of going anywhere anytime soon saloniki the country's second city is pretty likely when it comes to the economic hardships compared to the likes of athens but even here the telltale signs of economic downturn a clear to see closed shops boarded up businesses all around the town tony assume maurice the greek prime minister is coming here to open the trade fail on saturday but if he thinks he's in for a warm reception he might have another thing coming every year old in every election the good. of the promise things is the saving lives to us in order to grow and to be in the government and after one hundred two days they

forget every everything and they go to europe and they do whatever the european countries like they do not do what ever the good people like the greek would for crisis also means judgement and there are plenty of people that haven't ruled out the possibility of an economic armageddon taking place in the country that's why thousands are expected to gather here and thessaloniki main square on saturday evening to demonstrate against the government's handling of the financial crisis. now european economic turmoil has inspired countries which used to be associated with stability in belgium as companies look for ways to cut costs local see their jobs in jeopardy due to a huge inflow of workers from poorer states as he says are still you know explains the situation with employment there and the short term is only likely to get worse over here at a construction site where all the workers as well as the owners of the construction company are from poland belgium is seeing an influx of foreign workers from other

e.u. countries and more often than not these workers left the belgian counterparts in limburg for example a province in flanders which has a significant construction sector thirty eight percent of all companies have lost bids to foreign firms ninety percent of them expect to lose bits in the future and this is prompted fears that in the coming months one in five companies will have to lay people off setting prices that are or too low it's what we can call wage dumping of people who need to work but if that work is going to other companies then we will lose a lot of jobs in our. local firms say they are also losing out when it comes to speed of delivery our building sector is heavily unionized. to do good for strict working new rules but if you look at the foreign companies people work ten twelve thirteen fourteen hours a day six days out of seven and that of course for delivery speed of your project

is a huge advantage and more belgian clients are opting to try their services base people are much more flexible so that's that's why we try it and it was a it was a success europe's debt crisis has dealt a massive blow to a sector that employs up to sixteen million e.u. citizens and with no clear signs of the tough times letting up tension is brewing especially when local firms feel they're getting the short end of the stick on their own turf tesser cilia r.t. antwerp in belgium. and later today a kaiser reports financial gurus max and stacey take a look at this week's other victims of the debt crisis here's a bit of what's ahead. italy all this bank faces uncertain future moment to the past did not survive berlusconi's bunga bunga parties it seems the country the bank is on the verge of bankruptcy it's the third biggest bank in italy

and now it has all these government bonds which is trying to sell but of course the yield keeps going up and up meaning their bonds are going down and down so they're caught in a spiral nobody knows for sure there is some sort of bailout agreement reached with the italian government but nobody knows what it actually means the government debt became toxic in their own where this you know remember any other jones at the scene where he replaces the bag of jewels with a bag of sand but it doesn't quite do it and the big boulder follows him down through the tunnel this is the this bank now in italy they realize that there was a slump and they now hold government bonds that are junk and they're trying to run away down the tunnel. twin blasts have rocked the syrian capital damascus leaving at least six people dead the first blast was reportedly caused by a booby trapped motorcycle which exploded near a mosque on friday afternoon while worshippers were leaving prayers the second

explosion went off between the justice and information ministries leaving no casualties meanwhile calls are getting louder at the u.s. congress for helping arm the syrian rebels and intervening in the country with some senators pushing for greater american involvement in the conflict the president of the arab lawyers association says the west is preventing the syrian people from changing their dire situation. i think the western powers have gone way 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 exchange 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 i know you're patient not just by the usa but by iran as well and fundamentalism is being spread. everywhere but now they and the west is trying now even to work with the islamist movement in order to thwart any of the their work i think movements in these countries and i think syria definitely the people in syria are looking for democracy and 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 to protect its own interests. now stay with our team because later on in the program we get a flavor of different views on jannat way modified food. organic doesn't seem in the cows are labeled organic regular. find out what people in the big apple think of the great debate surrounding what we're told about g.m. products. plus the future is free lance the super smart in the workforce that's happy. but it's blamed for jeopardizing jobs in the west.

family lived in a nice community wasn't which was an upscale it was just like you know. they started showing up here what happened was. my company decided i could get cheap labor and they got rid of. most illegally

legally we have to get up every morning we have to go to work and you know we have to pay our. wilson we have to do it and that's just the american dream and if you want the american dream you have to go by the law so i figured. i'd watch and they run run down my property and about this noise. mortars from coming over the wire protecting the country i'm the kind of guy who doesn't mind your newspaper and sturdy so i come out here you know we're all immigrants as well that we all came from somewhere else. i mean so the only city in europe i'm the host of the twenty fourth she withdrew the figure. thank you.

thank you. it's so true. canada has severed diplomatic ties with iran closing in tampa seem to iran and expelling iranian diplomats from the country explaining the surprise move official said that iran represents the biggest threat to global security with its nuclear activities support for the syrian regime and threats against israel to iran slammed the decision accusing canada of a radical foreign policy that puts the interests of israel ahead of those of its own citizens but michele the director of the center for research on globalization based in montreal believes canada wasn't the one making the decision here. this is

a timely statement the only moments. really are so very serious this is because it closes down communication it isolates iran it's taking diplomacy and it is creating karl hoerr it diplomacy so to speak this decision wasn't taken in our life it was it was taken in washington cannibalising not 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 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 is talking about it not

barbless 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 create conditions which could lead to you know to a military accidents. now is take a look at some of the stories from around the world friends. interview the brother of a british man killed along with his wife in the french alps the tactics are looking into the possibility of a family feud about money the victim's four and seven year old daughters from survive the shooting are believed to be the only witnesses to what happened wednesday's incident left four people dead including an elderly woman and a passing cyclist. castillo after a series of earthquakes in southwest china now stands at at least eighty with more than seven hundred residents injured there are fears this will rise further due to blocked mountain roads which are hampering rescue efforts chinese premier wen

jiabao has visited the region where more than one hundred thousand have been left homeless the red cross is working to sandy relief supplies rescue crews try to reach outlying towns. out of the people have packed the streets of brazil's capital protesting against a corruption and demanding a government cleanup as follows wednesday's arrest of several high ranking politicians on suspicion of fraud and reconciling demonstrations going sided with independence day celebrations brazil has long struggle to tackle corruption and improve government accountability with concern growing over global food security the use of genetically modified ingredients is becoming increasingly common and increasingly controversial much of the debate centers on whether it poses a risk to health and whether or not g.m. foods should be labelled the resident show host laurie harvest has been gauging opinion in new york.

more than forty countries around the world have mandated g.m.o. labeling on food products but not in the u.s. is it fair to consumers to not have that information this week let's talk about that you would like to see the labels that absolutely why do you think we don't have them here oh i'm a big conspiracy theorist and i'm sure that like the government you know because they're getting paid by pharmaceutical companies that own the g.m.o. stuff they don't that's all that's what i think it comes down to money like everything out right exactly and it's all about big corporations making the seeds that are genetically modified i don't know i mean i've got a daughter who's really really particular about what she said no i mean i guess in our generation we've to see what it has been there it is it a younger generation concern i think a lot of people say there's no direct link to it in terms of what it does to your how but then again they said that about smoking a decade this is mean they do list ingredients in

a way whether they're good for you or not so maybe they should put on there are you ok with it i'm ok with it you don't care if it's been messed with and no i just think you know we've got to be careful because we're not going to have enough food at some point if we're not careful so we maybe need to look at other wise that we can help. in whole. food production really think should be labeled the consumer should know the place where you get it you don't have the organic medo rate what are you going to put a barcode. reader right now and the other thing are people going to pay attention and care anyway right the price being someone that works in retail with food on the shelf if you read those labels and you don't trust them i don't trust any labels but you know what organic labels. you know some of them i do just because they're older healthier regardless like organic milk comes from same cow the cows are label organic regular you know they're not a lot of people say there's no low evidence that g m o's are bad for your health.

so but when it's on the label you can decide if you want to eat it or not so i think that's the difference if you think it's the or not or it makes no sense you can buy it whether or not you think it's fair for a company to not have to label for g.m.o. information the bottom line is if you live in the united states you're probably ingesting a lot of g.m.o. food whether you like it or not. while much of the world is getting dragged ever deeper into recession and unemployment the east is finding ways to innovate and expand in india many workers are now moving out of offices and stay at home part of a flexible approach which has seen a boom in the highly skilled freelance sector as artists are now reports this shift is blamed for a knock on effect in the west. it's the middle of the day and while most of his

peers are out and about working nine to five in the corporate world twenty nine year old buck she is sitting at his workstation in the comfort of his bedroom i haven't they would have a job where i would go to often nine to six i'm not a. bonus and so i'm pretty much doing it on my own when i work from home. i'm feeling less productive what i need some inspiration for writing i would go to a coffee house a self professed tech nerd but she graduated with high marks and has four years of work experience at microsoft under his belt while he may have had his pick of cushy jobs buc she chose to become a freelancer and is now working online on short term branding campaigns for multiple clients around the world such as american express his part of a growing trend of people who are moving their work out of the office and online studies show that one third of the global workforce will be hired online by two thousand and twenty and it seems like boxy is the hot commodity experts say that

one third of the freelance projects from around the world are being completed by people here in india they say it's not just about hiring workers for lower wages they also believe that indians are extremely competitive when it comes to getting white collar jobs the internet has created a level playing field and now indians like buck she are being chosen to work for major international companies there are. very highly educated and very skilled. jobs are exceptional. what i would call situational. understanding. us or cations and cultural norms it's a matter of pride for many indians who believe that the country can be known for more than just outsourcing call centers and manufacturing a ton o. mage in there are quit his full time job last year to develop digital databases for european universities. good workers young people go to good schools in

india and probably good causes people are. more educated and most skilled in different areas and sometimes more technicalities macian their specialized skills and digitization has made him highly sought after and he's now earning twice as much as he did when he worked full time he believes that india's economy will prosper as freelancing becomes more widespread economy would be stronger because different people money but while the popularity of freelancing might be good news for people in the east it is causing some concern for highly skilled workers in the west sometimes for i.t. jobs that's definitely a concern i definitely know people who are concerned about that i'm a friend of mine actually that that people are going to get laid off soon at her husband's company because they're looking outsourced think it makes economic sense to take here and to invest in the place where you live and work and ultimately

that's likely to benefit you i think the u.s. government the american people need to think for themselves about how they can make themselves more attractive or. for any company to live in america. for up the shit box she freelancing allows him to focus on his work but if you just get the job done and before the designated as the nation with the highest number of freelancers the indian labor force is using it skills and education to give workers around the world a run for their money preassure either r t new delhi india. well spotlight is just ahead but before that i'll be back with a recap of our top stories. if

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