looking east asia pacific nations hope to jumpstart global economic growth. with developing. china. and greek fury over crippling cuts spread to the country's second largest city as thousands of people including police are expected to protest against the fresh austerity. cuts diplomatic ties with iran over its nuclear program and support for the syrian regime. unexpected move seen as part of the u.s. led campaign to increase.

the with me rule. leaders of nations that make up half of the world's population getting down to business for the apec summit in russia's far east it's all aimed at spurring global growth pacific economies are gathered in blood of. the best bet for fueling recovery with traditional powerhouses like the u.s. and europe. is following developments for us. 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 pull the world with 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 a 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 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 election campaign republican contender for the presidential polls to 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 isn't suma and that he sincerely wants to implement to have changed. 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 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 when you sleep in a room because such behavior in the international arena is the same as using

nationalism and segregation as the tools of u.s. domestic policy if you will course watch the full version of this interview on artie's you tube channel. in the meantime though a financial consultant got her money says the growing ties between russia and china could count about 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 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 and we are having a lot more analysis and reporting from the apec summit in russia's far east are all throughout the day here on. part of turning our attention now to europe where debt crippled greece is braced for more protests against a new round of severe spending cuts the country's e.u. creditors are demanding that an eleven point five billion euro austerity package is adopted to secure vital rescue learns 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 he's pretty oliver has the story greece's economic problems are well documented but they don't show signs of going anywhere anytime soon saloniki the country 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 now antonius said 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 think coming every year old in every election the good. of the promise things is the sea lice to us in order to grow to be in the government and after one hundred two days they forget everything everything and they go to europe and do whatever the european countries like

they do not do what ever the good people like the greek word 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 is main square on saturday evening to demonstrate against the government's handling of the financial crisis. reporting now the european economic turmoil hasn't spared 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 and as an artist tester austere explains the situation with employment there in the short term is only likely to get worse. while we're 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 that are too low what we can call wage dumping of people 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 lee you know. 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 then of course for the 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 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. and in belgium. and later today here at r.t. of course the kaiser report with financial gurus max and stacey taking a look at this week's other victims of the e.u. debt crisis here's a quick preview of what is ahead. italy all this bank faces uncertain future monti 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 on 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 in their own awareness you know member in the head of 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 them down through the tunnel this is the this bank now in italy they realize that there was a swap and they now hold government bonds that are junk and they're trying to run away down the tunnel. ten minutes past the hour moscow time twin blasts have rocked the syrian capital of damascus leaving at least six people dead and the first blast was reportedly caused by

a booby trapped motorcycle which exploded near a mosque on friday afternoon while worshippers would leave 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 some senators pushing for greater american involvement in the conflict but president of the arab lawyers association. says the west is actually preventing the syrian people changing their diet situation. western powers have gone where you go and what was acceptable even under the. questionable matter of trying to. interfere in internal affairs of countries and on the pretext of human rights protection of civilians the western powers are stopping the civilian population stopping the revolution from actually coming to terms with the government and what they are doing and that is putting

a veto on anybody discussing with the government and of the idea that you cannot work with the people whose hands are full of blood while we did exactly the same thing in britain when we called on the ira to speak with the government at the end of the day the western powers want to change the existing regimes because that's the regime is the only one that is left that is not pro west to me britain america and the countries assisting him are willing to sacrifice the population of syria in order to achieve their objective of changing the regime. it's good to have you with us here on aussie today i'm just a bit later in the program we get a flavor of different views on genetically modified food. forget because of the same cow in the cows are labeled organic regular you can find out what people in the big apple think all the great debate surrounding what we're being told about g.m. produce. the future is a freelance

a super smart indian workforce that's happy to shop and study salaries but is blamed for jeopardizing jobs in the west. 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 elizabeth 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 change and side effects.

their childhood was a rich shadowed by this tragedy. these two feel the fear they faced. and remember every second of this nightmare. it will remain in their memories and hearts forever. the town and using soldiers. innocent. little angels.

from the law from the heart of moscow and canada has severed diplomatic ties with iran closing its embassy in tehran and kicking iranian diplomats out of the country

explaining the surprise move officials said that represents the biggest threat to global security with its nuclear activities and support for the syrian regime and threats against israel 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 is the director for the center for search of globalization based in montreal. was not the one making the decision. this is a high and low statement at a time when moments. really are so 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 is what i'm taken in our life was taken in washington 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 merely more or less follows in the footsteps of washington and i think that they want 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 one 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 is very unfortunate because we have to maintain dialogue with countries and build peace rather than create conditions which could lead to your you know to a military accidents by let's crack of the artery while the day now will start in afghanistan where a suicide bomb attack nato's headquarters in the capital kabul has killed six civilians including children the taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack

saying it was meant to target a cia office the blast took place amid celebrations marking an eleven years since al qaeda militants killed in and taliban commander. french investigators want 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 over money the victim's four and seven year old daughters who survived the shooting and believed to be the only witnesses to what happened wednesday's incident left four people dead including an elderly woman and a passing cyclist. the death toll after a series of earthquakes in southwest china now stands at at least eighteen with more than seven hundred residents injured there are fears this will rise further due to block mountain roads which are hampering the rescue efforts chinese premier wen jabo has visited the region where more than one hundred thousand have been left homeless the red cross is working to send relief supplies while rescue crews are

trying to reach the out line towns. and thousands of people have packed the streets of brazil's capital protesting against state corruption and demanding a government cleanup that follows wednesday's arrests of several high ranking politicians on suspicion of fraud and racketeering the demonstrations coincided with independence day celebrations brazil has long struggle to tackle corruption and improve government accountability. board with the concern growing of a 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 labeled as a resident show host or lower half of this has been gauging just that opinion in the big apple. more than forty countries around the world has 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 do see what it has been there it is it a younger generation concern us 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. greens 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. just think

you know we've got to be careful because we're not going to have enough food at some point if we don't we maybe need to look at other wise that we can help. food production really think should be labeled the consumers you know the place where you get to go everywhere get it made oh wait what do you do put a barcode mask on read it right know 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 you know you read those labels and you don't trust them and also some new labels but you know what organic labels. you know some of them i do just because they're a little healthier but regardless like organic milk because i'm the same cow the cows are labeled or again. regular you know they're not a lot of people say there's no evidence that they're bad for your house.

so but. you can decide if you want to eat it or not so i think that says if you think it's. 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. now while much of the world is getting dragged ever deeper into recession and unemployment. finding ways to innovate and expand in india many workers are now moving out of offices and staying at home or part of a flexible approach which has seen a boom in the highly skilled freelance sector has all his previous shrewder reports the shift is actually 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 the job it would go to open them 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 tack nerd buck 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 but 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 their 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 where are. they doing. what i would call situational. understanding of 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 time new image in the our quit his full time job last year to develop digital databases for european university. a good workers are young people who go to good schools in india probably good causes and people are. more

educated most given 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 that different people are 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 id 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 seeing 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 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 bucks 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. or the spotlight if a few minutes away here are to the focus of thought hoping of russia's role in the asia pacific region of course the a pic summit ongoing right now in flood of a stock that will be off to a recap of the headlines in just a second. thank

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