top news headlines and commentary direct from the russian capital moscow this is r.t. glad to have you with us it is the end of an era in italy as the country's charismatic prime minister silvio berlusconi steps down it comes after the lower house of parliament gave its final approval to a vast new austerity package which was a precondition for his resignation the p.m.'s seat won't.

broadcasting live direct from our studios in central moscow this is r.t. glad to have you with us western europeans can rest easier this winter with an uninterrupted flow of russian gas to keep them warm but nord stream pipeline will pump fuel along the baltic sea floor and straight to customers without relying on transit countries like ukraine and belarus president medvedev will start to flow in germany later on tuesday. as there. the key points off the russian president's visit to germany is the launch the official opening of the north stream gas pipeline of course that gas pipeline which is an offshore pipeline runs for more than twelve hundred kilometers from a russian town of to germany its offshore pipeline that runs along the bottom off the baltic sea it has been in construction since april of two thousand and ten and the key of this particular pipeline is that it will allow for russian gas to be transported to europe without any intermediary points like ukraine and belarus which is the case right now of course the repairing the construction there has be

top news headlines and commentary direct from the russian capital moscow this is r.t. glad to have you with us it is the end of an era in italy as the country's charismatic prime minister silvio berlusconi steps down it comes after the lower house of parliament gave its final approval to a vast new austerity package which was a precondition for his resignation the p.m.'s seat won't remain vacant for long though with veteran euro credit mario monti looking set to take the baton from berlusconi the public reaction so far has been mixed with some celebrating berlusconi's fall while others are wary of the future our correspondent in italy sara first has the details. that a star if you will finally theo's silvio berlusconi state and he stepped down. as prime minister of the country now for better or worse he was certainly a character and it's going to be a massive change and now that he's resigned from the pros optimism certainly for a future who bought that future will be right now remains uncertain is that a caretaker government is going to be put in place and the man is being

and broadcasting live direct from the heart of moscow this is r.t. glad to have with us tonight palestine it gets a seat at the u.n. cultural agency for the first time in a move widely seen as a strong show of support for the nations bid for recognition unesco voted overwhelmingly in favor of the move but will pay a hefty price as washington cut its funding of the organization in protest the u.s. is against the recognition of palestine outside of the peace talks with israel and to veto the next un security council vote on the issue. syria's president claims that the deadly anti regime uprising in the country is funded from abroad and warns of western powers to keep out this comes as nato rules out a military intervention while the opposition of the country remains divided over the introduction of a libya style no fly zone president assad says he is ready to work with the opposition as a new constitution is being drawn up and multi-party elections are set to take place next year. and from the.

and broadcasting live direct from our studios in new central moscow this is r.t. glad to have you with us the annual apec forum has brought together the world's political and economic heavyweights from the asia pacific nations in hawaii this weekend the summit touches upon a vast number of issues ranging from establishing a pacific wide free trade zone to the euro zone crime.

and broadcasting live direct from our studios in central moscow this is r.t. glad to have you with us the annual apec forum has brought together the world's political and economic heavyweights from the asia pacific nations in hawaii this weekend the summit touches upon a vast number of issues ranging from establishing a pacific wide free trade zone to the eurozone crisis we're now joined live by our t's on the star trek and who is in honolulu see it thank you for joining us now first president obama and medvedev are holding talks as we speak what is expected to come out of the meeting. well that's right the russian president medvedev has held quite a range of bilateral talks here in honolulu including with the leaders of japan malaysia vietnam and korea and as we speak he's meeting with the u.s. president barack obama among the issues they're supposed to do. of course the issue of missile defense. russia's future of the world trade organization bilateral talks a really reassessment of ties between russia and the united states as well as the situation around the ado

r.t. i'm sean thomas glad to have you with us the annual apec forum has brought together the worlds of political and economic heavyweights from the asia pacific nations in hawaii this weekend the summit touches upon a vast number of issues ranging from establishing a pacific wide free trade zone to the euro zone crisis bilateral meetings are also taking place on the sidelines of the forum are going to brings us the latest from honolulu.

one o'clock on a tuesday afternoon here in russia's capital moscow glad to have you with us this is r.t. western europeans can rest easier this winter with an uninterrupted flow of russian gas to keep them warm the nord stream pipeline will pump fuel along the baltic sea floor and straight to e.u. customers without relying on transit countries like ukraine and belarus president medvedev is in germany and will soon start to flow. there. the pipeline is well as you have said is the longest one in the world it's more than twelve hundred kilometers long it's an offshore pipeline so goes along the bottom of the baltic sea and when fully operational it will provide more than fifty five billion cubic meters of gas of russian gas to european customers now today the first part of the two pipelines will actually start working this second one will become fully operational by the end of next year so at that point european customers will see all that russian gas coming for and then from russia one of the most important parts is that there will be no intermediaries so there will be no chances for gas