looking east asia pacific nations hope to jumpstart global economic growth at the apec summit in russia's far east with developing giants russia and china building a closer bond. greek fury over crippling cuts from athens to the country's second largest city as thousands of people including police are to protest against the freshest parity package. and canada cuts diplomatic ties with iran over its nuclear program and support for the syrian regime in an expected move seen as part of the u.s. led campaign to increase to iran's isolation. for

moscow with me arena 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 aimed at spurring global growth asia pacific economies gather in a lot of us dog are seen as the best bet for fueling recovery was traditional powerhouses like the u.s. and you were flagging. is following developments at the form. as president who 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 rule 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 moscow and beijing seem to agree on the lot of matters and not just to 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 the geisha and 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 they talked about syria's foreign minister said that russia has expressed 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 apologies saying that he couldn't be here if the united states right now is in the midst of its pre-election republican contender for the presidential post mitt romney has expressed his opinion that

russia is united states geopolitical enemy number one president obama doesn't seem to share that if you point saying that it is sort of a leftover from the cold war era type of thinking and the president put in. an exclusive interview ahead of the summit that say he's willing to work with whichever candidate wins the upcoming presidential elections in the united states but he did pay some compliments to president obama feeling is that he has a sense that he sincerely wants to implement those two have changed. but can he do it will they let him do it nope i mean there is also the military lobby and the department of state which is quite conservative it q. and 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 all going to use the room because such behavior in the international arena was 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. financial consultants are some granny 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. 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. well we'll have more live updates and analysis from the apec summit in russia's far east so join us for that throughout the day. to europe now where a dad crippled degree says brace for more protest against a new round of severe spending cuts the country's e.u. creditors are demanding that and the eleven point five billion euro staring package is adopted to secure a vital rescue loans and this time it's not just the capital where people are furious with the plans thousands are expected to take part in an anti-government rally in greece's second largest city this weekend all over 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 is so maurice the greek prime minister is coming here to open the trade fair on saturday but if he thinks he's in for a warm reception he might have another thing coming every year already in every election the good. of the promise things they say lies to us in order to grow and to be in the government and after one hundred two days they forget everything everything and they go to you know. 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. well the european economic turmoil hasn't spared countries which used to be associated with stability and belgium as companies look for ways to cut costs local see their jobs in jeopardy due to a huge inflow of workers from four e.u. states and artists are still you know explains the situation with employment there in 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 belgium is seeing an influx of foreign workers from other countries and more often than not these workers left the belgian counterparts in the emberg 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 to go 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 sectors have really you know. to do good for strict . rules but if you look at the foreign companies people work ten twelve thirteen fourteen hours a day six days out of seven that of course for delivery speed of your project is a huge advantage and more belgian clients are opting to try their services these people are much more flexible so that's that's why we tried 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 desser cilia r.t. antwerp in belgium and next hour in the kaiser report financial gurus max and say see take a look at this week's other victims of the e.u. debt crisis and here's a bit of what's ahead. world all this bank faces uncertain future moment to do passkey 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 are 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 and there are where this you know member in the 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 swap 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 is what was the year a mosque on friday afternoon while worshippers were leaving prayers the second explosion went off between the justice 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 but president of

the arab lawyers association salva have atar says the west is preventing the syrian people from changing their dire situation. the western powers have gone where you go and what was acceptable even. that question that. 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 in libya 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 fundamentalism is being spread. everywhere but now they are in the west is trying now even to work with the islamist movement in order to thwart any of these movements in these countries and i think syria definitely the people in syria i'm looking for democracy are looking for change but at the present moment the west has moved from that go into really fighting a civil war against the regime and the regime has a responsibility to protect the country to protect even if it's only interest stay with us here on r.t. and later in the program we get a flavor of different views on genetically modified food. organic not seen in the cows are labeled organic and regular. find out what people in the big apple

think of the great debate surrounding what we're telling about g.m. products. the future is free lance the super smart in the workforce that's happy to stay salaries but is blamed for jeopardizing jobs in the west. dear mom i'm sorry that i had to do this i've been in so much pain in the past year that i can't take it anymore the stomach and chest pains have been getting worse and no doctor has been able to help me please know that i'll finally be at peace and with no more pain i wish i could have had a life with it was a bit always pictured her being my wife and mother to my kids i love you all see you all in heaven when your time comes i'm going to meet jesus christ. thousands of u.s. troops in iraq received one of these drugs a drug called lariam and it may have prevented many soldiers from getting sick the question tonight is whether or not soldiers were adequately warned about its rare

side effects serious life changing side effects. to execution dates in believe me. just a one to two execution date is enough for anybody to go through your life to. be no more than thirty percent of the people who are if you did texas are not. why you know living on death row was like. this it's like you know we execute our convicted capital murder we have the highest execution rate in america we're not afraid to do it we do it well this becomes a point we do becomes. our avenue i hope. i will get a letter your dad is going to be executed next week then his appearance here in miami for you to know you can loose here want to be appearing at the in

a manner of me saying that's it it's time to go it's just. another day to be into this to the death chamber. kind of stayed till after they were dating. soon which will brighten. from phones to pressure. starts on t.v. don't come. back

to watching our team canada has severed diplomatic ties with iran closing its embassy in tehran 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 michelle does it off see 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 high and low statement at the moment. really also very serious this is because it closes down communication it isolates iran it's taking diplomacy and it is creating calm or you could clone a sea so to speak this is what until you can in our life it was take it in that canada is 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 to size leak out of the first now it's interesting to say the least that when the foreign minister made the statements he also said well there are no reports of on an actual attack on iran so everybody is talking about an attack on iran israel is talking about it not bomb us 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 your military accidents. look at some other stories from around the world a blast has rocked a nato had quietly cavalier guarded diplomatic quarter of the afghan capital kabul

according to reports from reuters local officials say was a suicide bombing with six people killed and five wounded the attack took place and it's heart breaking is marking eleven years since al qaeda militants killed an anti taliban commander. francesa gaiters wants to interview the brother of a british man killed along with his wife in the french alps detectives are looking into the possibility of a family feud about money the victim's four and seven year old daughters who survived the shooting are believed to be the only witnesses to what happened wednesday's incident left four people dead including the elderly woman and a passing cyclist. the death toll after a series of earthquakes in southwest china now stands at least eighty was more than seven hundred residents injured there are fears this will rise further or do you have walked 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 while rescue crews try to reach outlying towns. thousands of people have passed the streets of brazil's capital protesting against a corruption and demanding a government cleanup follows wednesday's arrest of several high ranking politicians on suspicion of fraud and they could hear the demonstrations coincided with independence day celebrations brazil long struggle to tackle corruption and improve government accountability. what's 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 laura 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 other no 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 the 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 so 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 otherwise 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 mask on read it right now and i bet 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 level. but you know what organic labels. you know some of them i do just because they're a little healthier regardless like organic milk that comes from the same cow the cows are labeled organic regular you know they're not

a lot of people say there's no evidence that g.m.o. is 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 probably 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 staying at home part of a flexible approach which has seen a boom in the highly skilled freelance sector and as to 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 call it off in one 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 self professed tech nerd but she graduated with high marks and has four years of work experience at microsoft under his belt well 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 boxing 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 who are. very skilled. they do. what i would call shoot you originally we were understanding. you have 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 time new image in the our quit his full time job last year to develop digital databases for european universe. good workers. go to good

schools in the south probably good causes people are. more educated more 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 it made people more 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 her husband's company because they're looking outsourced think that 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 but i think the u.s. government and the american people need to think for themselves about how they can make themselves more attractive or. work for any company leaving them there. for all the shit box she freelancing allows him to focus on his work for free and so 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 its skills and education to give workers around the world a run for their money preassure either r t new delhi india and surely we discuss the possible future of doing a standard our interview but i'll bring you the headlines before that. yes.

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