with my instructor the no holds barred look at the global financial headlines comes a report. president obama's absence becomes a highlight of a key summit of asia pacific economies in indonesia was the american government shutdown now threatening the president focused on asia. never let a good crisis go to wait china turns to europe for investment opportunities snapping up companies all over to use terror to hit a continent. and. a swiss army simulates a war against a dead stricken french government that sent troops to recover stolen gold.

to me on the russian capital you're watching r t i'm marina josh welcome a key annual summit of asia pacific leaders in bali has angered its second and final day boosting trade and business cooperation between the twenty one member economies is a main focus of the gathering but hasn't been short of political overtones as well the absence of president obama due to the us government shutdown was repeatedly noted as other countries took center stage at the form are just full scott reports from indonesia. well the twenty one nations that make up a package count for more than fifty percent of the world's g.d.p. on an annual basis so it's clear that what is agreed here is of huge significance especially when you consider the fragile nature of the global economic recovery and this region has a number of a merchant economies indonesia for example where we are right now is the fifteenth largest economy in the world so it's clear that there are plenty of good investment

opportunities in the region so perhaps it's surprising then that u.s. president barack obama is not here he's of course been forced to cancel his trip to asia to deal with the domestic problems the financial problems back in the united states and the continuing shutdown there and that decision to stay at home is going to be frustrating for u.s. business leaders especially when you consider the united states well documented to asia as it is cool strategic move designed to include increase america's influence in the region our bombers decision to stay at home has been a hot topic of discussion over the last couple of days or so everyone's had their say russian president vladimir putin saying that obama's decision is totally justified on that putin himself would have done the same when you consider what is at stake i think the singapore prime minister spoke for many on sunday when he said that he'd rather have a u.s. government that is functioning and working the one that is not on this entire economic summit really has been played out to the backdrop of what is happening in

washington and what is happening in the united states with the threat of a u.s. default hanging over the global economy one of the business leaders said to me yesterday that the prospect about the fall is simply unthinkable the consequences i run think about so we're still not clear with the uncertainty hanging over the states where the global economy is about to enter choppy waters or calm seas. well let's discuss the possible repercussions of barack obama's absence from the apec summit was nabo we i'm always a baseball little commentator and columnist now thank you so much for joining us here on araa to talk about this well as we know it's been two years since president obama declared asia his top priority but right now he is not showing at the summit so how could he has no show under mind at. well we will get this through the eyes of china and certainly have a paper tiger moment for obama he's certainly lost focus and i think the fact that obama doesn't know whether he was a darling he was talking about strategic asia which has

a market that we're going to enhance and most are not so much of that as well i'm a factor obama can't even know what a few days to come out to the region for our over the most important summit of the region it's far from exceptional about it and certainly very worrying and i don't we the asian leaders are very skeptical of beijing if it can have obama he will to go out to the region for a couple days i think you know so you buy the vote because he has a very persuasive way about him and he could have that perhaps trying to sell bonds points a little bit to certain leaders who were skeptical while we see such forums are an excellent opportunity for the countries to boost economic and trade ties and speaking of which president obama plan to use his personal persuasion to push forward to go she asians on the transpacific partnership that excludes china so if this agreement still takes place what can we say about its influence in the region

i mean how could it possibly affect the distribution of influence in the region well i'm not sure that it actually will come to pass the u.s. has got a lot of pressure on negotiations to sign it into law by the end of this year and that's simply not going to happen i think there's tons of skepticism here and a considerable asia for example and you can't really have a sit in treaty agreements and not include china i mean there's clearly an element of the u.s. you know polar unipolarity in that decision to exclude china from which through trade agreements but i've covered this pretty extensively in my writing here in which i had the opportunity to interview some some of the negotiators. transpacific partnership. and because of the lack transparency the draconian non-disclosure they were able to tell me anything significant except for us that. malaysia would

have to change many of its laws it was the existing policy to be challenged by the corporations and big business and one. well since you brought up into the picture a malaysian prime minister also said that obama's no show is a missed opportunity tell me what exactly do you think a man by that i mean what exactly obama missed out on. well not just ross our prime minister of malaysia he's perhaps the leader who is been most open in his criticisms of the transpacific partnership he has been statements like malaysian one sought sole to sign a transpacific partnership and to get the supposed benefits from it. essentially i think. he wanted he has that opportunity to speak to obama about the very draconian measures of the traffic partnerships such as the fact that capital controls wouldn't be able to be issued it would really affect the sovereignty of

a country in a sense the countries wouldn't be able to issue their own independent monetary matter a canonic policy for certain you're a worrying thing for obama well many analysts are saying that obama's absence kind of played into the hands of china in your opinion how do you think china benefited from that if at all up the chinese and boasted about this at all but she came soon to meet her and came to malaysia around the time that obama announced the fact that he would come in and at the same time he signed a huge billion dollar deals with the government and he also announced a new strategic partnership leasure so i think countries like indonesia really should they have a great deal more incentive to cooperate with china to work with china because their economies are basically based on foreign investment mode china is clearly the biggest investor in the region and there's not want to get in my opinion from being

locked down or over financial and sovereignty in this regime like the transfers. all right now. based political commentator an expert in asia thank you so much for talking us here on r.t. . our chinese investment in the europe as been growing steadily the spied a financial storm dad's been ravaging the eurozone let's now take a look at some of the bigger deals in twenty tanna chinese carmaker decided it was easier to take over its swiss rival valvo than to compete in that in january last year and german concrete pump maker the second largest firm in the field was sold to china that same month quired an italian yacht maker for ready a month later as a reminder of the chinese fondness for luxury goods the famous french fashion brand sonia rykiel was sold to a firm in hong kong china is also investing heavily in the u.k. buying shares in london's heathrow airport and pumping billions of pounds in the

country's nuclear industry as polly boy going to reports chinese money is already changing the face of london. this time last year it looked like the iconic london cap would be consigned to the history books after its maker the financially troubled london taxi company went into administration chinese manufacturer g.t. which already owns volvo stepped in and bought the company for eleven million pounds the factory is now back in business this part of the assembly process is called the marriage of the carriage where the shape of the time. meets with the shafi of the taxi fare but it's a marriage between the chinese manufacturer and he on the london taxi company that managed to save a british icon from going out of production g.-d's pledged to invest a hundred and fifty million pounds into the coventry based business over the next five years promising to create jobs and develop new engines so the future really

previously when we were a company the financial resources to continue to develop the product as we would like to. do to develop. a which we could have only dreamed of financial analysts have called it a win win situation the london cab comes back from the brink of extinction while a major chinese manufacturer gets to invest in an exciting new project but what does it say about the state of british industry business secretary vince cable called the chinese buyout a clear demonstration of the strength of the british car industry but the london cap is just the latest in a raft of u.k. businesses being sold off to foreign companies cadres chocolate is now american. indian and the british airports authority spanish to some it represents a hollowing out of corporate britain and i'm happy that it's not going on that but

it shows government policy for a long time now as encourage foreign companies to take over our british companies that means i would british companies are not competitive across the globe. so we're not putting in the right tax policies we're not dealing with regulation in this these companies six welcome to have new investment it always is in the long term this takes away economic productivity from this country it means that stuff and job some are liable to go because there's allegiance between the companies that are owned by foreign entities and their country rather than britain piece has been a cabbie for over forty years in a scene the london taxi company goes through several four to show knows i hopped in for a ride and asked him how he feels about turning chinese this is a shame that it's the owned by a british company but it's better than going to the wall a dial m. of the companies that are still british they would be faced with any. london and online we've got much more about china's expanding investment abroad

including a story about beijing buying a lead when you're in france's border region or you can catch it at r.t. dot com. right to see. first street. and i would think that you're. on our reporters were very. instrumental. in the. all there is a growing divide between the u.s. and libya as tripoli slams washington for a raid to capture a terrorist suspect the target of the raid was allegedly involved in nine hundred ninety eight u.s. embassies bombings in kenya and tanzania libya's prime minister has demanded an explanation for what he called the kidnapping of want to its citizens from its territory saying that they should be prosecuted in side the country the fans

consult of mine rove says the u.s. is used to meddling in other countries affairs. they claim that under a two thousand and one the us lol they can capture anyone anywhere in the world they can enter any sovereign territory and arrest anyone it's extremely dangerous policy that's a a what and governments in the world can intervene in any other country sovereign state. without a un resolution they invaded iraq with a un resolution they attempted to carry out as strikes against syria recently without un resolution so it makes the whole world a dangerous place with their with their policy in place libyan authorities say washington never informed them of the planned raid law professor and carol morris davis says that if such claims are true the us was acting against international law

publicly libya is saying they did not consent to the raid we're aware of the raid when we sent in an armed force in order to conduct a kidnapping so if that's true then all of that sovereign territory and i question our legal authority to conduct a military operation in the sovereign territory of another country without their knowledge and consent and so there are other countries i'm sure there are people here in the united states that other countries view as an enemy of their state so we can go into libya and just ducked anyone we choose and what can you come here and do the same which they did that you know would be the lead story on every news network tonight but we do it is just you know kind of shrug and not. still ahead the president blasts the twelve year along u.s. led occupation obvious country using washington and printing the country's sovereignty and causing chaos while the ghana stand falls into the hands of the taleban. and moscow's ready to sand the olympic torch for the winter games in

sochi on its historic journey across russia those stories coming up for you here on r.t. . mother . look. look look. look. look look look look look on the. leg it was a little very hard to take out a little to get along here a lot has never had sex with her but there's no. silver bullet.

to the little play a. little. little play a. little. look a. little to the. welcome back you're watching r.t. live from moscow imagine this the year is twenty fourteen the impoverished french stormed a swiss border and a tam to bring back the gold they believe was stolen from them that a phantom forces fired off the invasion to keep their banks safe peter oliver has more on switzerland's war game scenario. the idea of two western european nations

going to war with each other may seem on thinkable however that's exactly the contingency that the swiss military have been preparing for and article in the march newspaper it was revealed that the swiss armed forces had conducted war games and which they depicted an invasion by neighbors friends to find out a little bit more about this i'm joined by the author of that article long thanks very much for talking to me why did the swiss military think that this was necessary. there's a history to this in two thousand and twelve the swiss army already held exercises on the premise that europe slides into economic chaos and many immigrants flock into the country this time around they went even further and created another legend suggesting that a financially stricken france breaks apart into warring regions this is one of the new countries that will appear it will be called so i own

a small but very nationalistic state so ionia will have thirty percent unemployment huge debt and it will blame switzerland for creating this debt so saionji is preparing an attack on switzerland to retrieve the money it had allegedly swiped from france so what's the reaction been in france to being portrayed as the v it is here. you know the french media made fun of this and mocked it we received lots of corn calls from the french press that he didn't take it seriously but in switzerland people are very serious about whatever the army does so public opinion is split some believe the story told for the drills was quite realistic and supports the idea of an exercise with this premise others think the swiss army put itself in a discrediting position. thank you very much so swiss war games underlining real tensions between neighbors and western europe. and over on our website freedom

came too late at r.t. dot com we've got the story of one man who served or forty years in jail for a crime he didn't commit and died just hours after his release. full time food had battered china's southern provinces forcing tens of thousands of people to flee and its past and bringing public transport to hold had tower a mole in motion section for stunning video and that. the. president of afghanistan has slammed the occupation by nato on its twelfth anniversary accusing allied troops of making the nation suffer and failing to

uphold security the criticism comes at a crucial moment for the country seeking to hold its first democratic transition of power during next year's presidential election the taliban overthrown by the u.s. led forces over a decade ago recently promised to disrupt the vote after nato pulls out all aspects of security will be in the hands of the afghan army meaning they would have to deal with high risk militant areas that's now nearly a half a country with elections around the corner director of world can't wait anti-war group believes the chaos caused by the invasion comes in handy for the radicals. this is an occupied country by the largest military in the world the biggest economy many billions of dollars up to a trillion dollars have been poured into afghanistan and the basic people are in worse shape than ever it's there's plenty of deadly violence going on now but the

civilian death toll is actually been higher in twenty twelve than in any other year of the us occupation this has created justifiably a population which is very much against the occupation and in some senses has been one to support the taliban which many people never supported before this all started the u.s. has said and supported the taliban by creating such disasters around the country and syria in the process of destroying the country stockpile of chemical weapons maybe making progress but there's still no solution in sight another severe crisis the conflict has created that of refugees the u.n. estimates that four million more syrians will be forced out of their homes and more than eight million will be in need of next year president of the international committee of the red cross peter moore told r.t. the only way to solve the refugee crisis is to get help to the people within syria

. in i.c.r.c. is perspective the first and foremost important step to do is to improve the situation within syria so that those displaced within syria are not forced to become refugees either in neighboring countries or beyond so our effort at the present moment is to appeal to the international community toward responsible countries to exert maximum influence on all parties in the syrian conflict to allow independent actors to do their work in syria we do not enough at the present moment because of the security situation because of the block which is amongst or between the syrian government and the armed opposition so we definitely and badly need to expand our operation in syria so that so that not more syrians become refugees and become a de stubby lising factor in the neighboring countries and the moscow like other

such the winter olympics torch relay is in its second and final day before it goes on an incredible journey across the world are just conch. on monday the torch was taken to moscow state university where a spectacular show was spot on our days later she asked was there for us. the first day of moscow's leg of the sochi twenty fourteen olympic torch relay has come to an end culminated by a spectacular fireworks show here at the sparrow heels in front of the most go state university the first day of the moscow leg of the torch relay kicked off at midday beside the red brick walls of the moscow kremlin and ever since then the torch bearers have been running across the russian capital carrying the torch passing the flame from one to another i myself was lucky to witness the handing

over of the flame at one point right next to the moscow state university all in all this was just the first day of the moscow torch relay the relay which promises to be a truly historic one and i did a report to explain what the peculiarities of this torch relay this time will be and what's so special about it. lips in a limpia handed over to russians on october the fifth in athens and delivered to moscow on the next day now the olympic flame has started its long and unique journey across the host country five time olympic champion and synchronized swimming and. was chosen to be the very first storage bearer fourteen thousand more will hand the flame to each other in the next four months among them people of a range of profiles and backgrounds including a special v.i.p. guest there's a lot of expectation on the on any significance but on these games i think there's a lot because it's been a lot of preparation. a lot of work to do and i think it will be but i think it

will be a great to go into. the twenty fourteen sochi games olympic torch relay has only just kicked off but it has already been branded as historic covering more than sixty five thousand kilometers across nearly three thousand cities towns and villages in russia it will become the longest storage relay in history and probably the most seen as well with almost one hundred thirty million people being within reachable distance of the relays route for the first time in history it will be taken for a space walk outside the international space station that's before descending to the bottom of the world's deepest lake baikal heading to the top of the world at north pole and scaling europe's highest peak russia's mountain. this is a unique opportunity to the united nations and a great way to explore russians themselves and because. with the flame. every single city and for that moment this particular city will

be the capital of the olympic games after two days in moscow the olympic torch will head further inland before ending up at the grand opening ceremony of the saudi winter olympic games in exactly one hundred twenty two days from now. r.t. moscow. the olympic torch is on its epic journey to such a. one hundred twenty three days. through to the minute or two cities of russia. really fourteen thousand people or sixty five thousand killing. in a record setting trip by land air sea another space. olympic torch relay. m r t v dot com. and coming up in our team breaking the set abby martin looks at the latest u.s.

terror raids in africa. i recently read headlines all over the russian internet screaming in full paranoia mode that china has just bought five percent of ukraine now they're writing that china will lease five percent of ukraine over ukrainian officials themselves claim the china won't be getting either and that this is a deal about some drip irrigation system the situation didn't explode onto the internet to the fantasies of bloggers the south china morning post reported that one company does have a crop and pig farming plan design utilized nine percent of ukraine's territory also last year the ban on foreigners buying land ukraine constantly been lifted

although i am the distrustful pro sovereignty type getting a rich foreign country to pay to develop your nation's agriculture might not be too bad of a deal it would definitely take a lot of money to restore ukraine's farming to its former glory they see that ukraine used to be the bread basket of europe i think that status spec could really help the country but selling off or even just leasing nine percent of the nation's territory is. salie unacceptable doing a large project with the chinese that is mutually beneficial is one thing but selling or leasing off your country is another and by another i mean treason but that's just my opinion. the the. code needs you up i'm having martin this is breaking the said well the tokyo electric power company is officially one of the worst companies in the world see

there's been an other we discovered the fukushima nuclear plant and this time it's one of a thousand tanks housing radioactive water you know this is really starting to get old tepco is responsible for what seems like one catastrophe after another since the two thousand and eleven earthquake first they lied about the scope of the damage then they had the fact that three hundred towns tons of radioactive water has been leaking into the pacific every day for the last two years and now another week in tech goes poorly built storage tanks is responsible for spilling another three hundred tons of radioactive water into the ocean and if that isn't ridiculous enough just check out today's headline fukushima worker accidentally switches off cooling pumps seriously oh i'm glad there's so much room for human error with such a deadly technology you know almost to the point thinking that ted goes deliberately trying to destroy the planet and if you're american seafood or all concern of radioactive fish and you know up on your plate.