so eventually president obama telling chinese president hu jintao to stop at gaming the system to make the playing field more love tuck in front of a packed leaders opec countries by the way account for more than half of the world's economic output so what will come out of this past weekend's meetings was answer that and more i spoke just a little while ago to asia times correspondent pepe escobar i asked him what was most concerning for him about this u.s. china exchange here's his response it's like watching a b. gene or you know i'm a big fan of chinese opera to be odd but you know one of those emperors from six. hundred watching your. only. trip from or you know the middle of nowhere they're going to respect the rules if to play to be absurd because first of all china is right the rules are set up later west nelda china eve heard. becoming american to list dollar and conquering the world by many factual cheap products exported all over the world and the united states instead decided to wage war for all across the world you know in africa as well. what kind of rules are in their rig

there's nothing to ask hu jintao for right now. the chinese are sitting back and watching this unfold. the u.s. is sitting back and watching it unfold. and the brazilians are watching it unfold. so the conversations that were supposed to be happening with them are simply not happening. i think everybody's found themselves with more time on their hands than they expected, nina? >> okay, ali velshi, you're not going to have too much time on your hands there. i bet you're a busy man in cannes. >> yes. >> thanks for your excellent reporting from the scene there. >>> more than 11 million people live in greece but the ex-pat community is huge. there's a sense that the average citizen is paying a hefty price back home. [ chanting ] >> reporter: as the deepening economic crisis royals greece, members are gather here at this institute in london to talk about the problems they face back home. chris from a consumer advocacy group finds the situation untenable. >> people feel hopeless. there is a sense that there is some form of economic dicta

currency practices in what it views as a too slow appreciation of the you want chinese president hu jintao responded saying first of all the u.s. trade deficit and unemployment rate are not caused by the want exchange rate and also insisted on more influence for beijing as a growing power argy correspondent oksana boyko spent the weekend in honolulu for the conference and lays out some of those differences that have piled up between the two countries if there is any us state where the occupy movement has little chance it's probably how by despite the high concentration of the situations and wall street beat week socialising at the apec summit the only place people are willing to occupy here on the beach is this one exception these pictures tourists are against greed and social injustice they're against economic inequality and they are against china. who incidentally the mood at the podium was in a little bit hostile i think we can benefit from fred which. certainly to continue cultivating a. constructive relationship with the trying his government. but we're going to continue to be firm in

. >>> chinese president hu jintao, who is also attending the apec forum, has emphasized that his country will play a larger role in creating a free trade framework in the region, including the transpacific partnership. hu made the remark in a keynote speech to a gathering of corporate leaders from the region on saturday. >> translator: the asia-pacific countries must deepen the integration of the regional economy while maintaining a multinational trading system. china is opposed to any form of protectionism. >> hu added his country will promote a free trade bloc in the asia-pacific region based on existing regional free trade agreements as well as the tpp in an attempt to achieve such economic integration. china's cautious about the tpp framework as it suspects that the u.s.-led initiative could erode china's influence in the asia-pacific region, but it maintains that cooperation among the asia-pacific nations is essential for economic growth. >>> during the apec meeting in hawaii, iran's nuclear development was also in the spotlight. the united states has asked russia and china to join

. >> reporter: justin bieber and chinese leader hu jintao might as well be best friends. how so? ♪ baby >> reporter: "baby, baby" bieber is dating selena gomez, who used to date nick jonas, the jonas brothers played for malia obama's birthday. malia knows her dad, obviously, who has been known to hang with hu from time to time. for years we have called this phenomenon six degrees of separation, the notion that we are all connected to each other through no more than six jumps. there is also the pop culture version, six degrees of kevin bacon, where every actor can be connected to every other through kevin bacon. the science came from a 1967 study where researchers asked volunteers to try to send a postcard to a person they didn't know. it took six jumps before it arrived by mail. but that was back when there were postcards. six degrees is getting a makeover, all thanks to social media. a new study finds that on facebook, we're getting closer. connected by an average of 4.74 friends. what does that mean for society? kevin bacon was not available for comment -- we actually tried --

the weekend at the asia pacific economic cooperation summit president obama and chinese president hu jintao. then there are all of that of a tug of war going on over who should get to write the next chapter is in the global economic rulebook the u.s. has been highly critical about china's trade policies on currency practices and what views as too slow appreciation of the one chinese president hu jintao responded to and saying you know first of our u.s. trade deficit and unemployment rate by the one exchange rate he also insisted on more influence from beijing as a growing power but it's a tough talk in front of a packed leaders countries by the way account for more than half of the world's economic output so what will come out of this weekend's meetings to answer that and more as opposed to is a quote times correspondent had to ask of our i asked him what was most concerning for him about the u.s. china exchange over the weekend here's his response look it's like watching a b. gene or copper you know on a big share of chinese opera it reminded me of you know one of those employers from . wa

one shows president obama kissing chinese president hu jintao. the vatican has threatened legal action against benetton, which is counting on the campaign to build buzz. the company says it was inspired by 1979 itphotograph between leonid brezhnev and an east german communist leader. in arizona, a little dog gave police the run around. the pooch was in the back of a car involved in a rollover accident. state police eventually cornered the animal on the median and returned it to its owner. no word on what caused the accident. still to come, not only are they environmentally friendly, but officials have another reason why you should buy a hybrid. those who provide for the needy are forced to take security precautions. >> the storm is just about done with us, but we still have clouds and chilly temperatures. insta-weather-plus forecast coming up. temperatures have been fairly steady this morning. >> in this afternoon's "consumer other," here is another reason you may want to consider a hybrid vehicle. they could be safer in an accident. hybrids are

vladimir putin came in second and chinese president hu jintao fell to third. >>> authorities in brazil has released video of officers ramming their car into a small plane to stop it from taking off. police say the plane was carrying more than $100,000 worth of smuggled electronic goods. >>> now here's an early look at how wall street will kick off the day. the dow opens at 12,0 44 after climbing 208 points yesterday. the s&p jumped 23 points. the nasdaq spiked 57. taking a look at overseas trading this morning n tokyo the nikkei rows 160 points, while in hong kong the hang seng skyrocketed 600. >>> well, faced with expulsion from the european union and revolt in his own government, greece's prime minister backed off a national referendum on europe's debt crisis plan thursday and wall street breathed a big sigh of relief. stocks rallied after embattled greek leader george papandreou not only gave up the referendum many feared could destabilize global markets but agreed to resign soon. also reigniting european optimism, european central bank cut interest rates. >>> good job news also fue

hu jintao. >> i don't know. we got off on the wrong foot.think they are superior to us to begin with did we really is to have biden on the tarmac? for god's sake he hits the bottom of the steps and joe is asking him if godzilla is as big in real life as is he in the movies? [screams] >> then he starts asking if he can help him get the other iron chef's autographs. i don't know if you saw it today, when they had that thing outside the white house, but obama's dog bo got on the white house lawn. biden starts screaming who let the dog out ♪ who let the dogs out ♪ roof, roof, roof, roof. >> secret service had to tackle biden. biden who uses kung fu skills to get them out of there. japan. he said they are different? >> it's mortifying what biden is doing. >> we missed all that miller. somehow the white house press corps didn't see any of that i'm glad you picked it up for us. >> i have a better grade of cable than you. i have the titanium package. >> any idea what's on the menu at the state dinner? what do you serve when the chinese people come o

but it was actually just pictures of me with hu jintao, with vladimir putin of russia said to a songitten called "black flower in the white house." (laughter and applause) (laughter) >> jon: how's the song go? >> it's kind of hard to sing. >> jon: i would imagine. did he... what does a guy like him do... like, how does he dress to impress? because normally he's throughout looking like a cross between, you know, tyne daly and michael jackson. >> well, he was in the big white robe, big red africa pin. black hat. i think it was his finest. (laughter) but the most important thing is i was there because he'd given up his weapons of mass destruction and, i'll tell you, when he was in that bunker as the revolution was unfolding all around them i was glad he had given up those dangerous weapons i have no doubt he would have used them. >> jon: they said that he still had chemical weapons. >> he still had some chemical stocks, old chemical stocks but the really dangerous stuff, for instance, some of the weapons that he'd gotten through the a.q. khan network, the pakistani nuclear scientist, th

there he will meet with hu jintao. both nations want a proper power balance in this region and neither want anything to unravel. duncan kennedy, "bbc news" in. >> the fukushima nuclear plant, the sample came from a farm around 60 kilometers from the nuclear plant and they say none of the rice had been sold. officials say both rockets missed an intended target, but one injured a civilian. it's not known who fired them. >> pressure is building on syria to tend violence. the frembling foreign minister talks on the crisis in turkey today, a day after ma rocco with drew their visit ors. and the crack down on protesters, it gave the government until freud hold the violence against the protesters or face violence. one said france should be able to put aside their other policy differences in deciding a course of action against syria. >> they are both in the forefront of countries now who insist the president has to go. the world has to move on now to plan the post era. i think they will be seeing eye-to-eye particularly becaus

he selected jiang zemin to be his successor and he selected hu jintao... >> rose: to succeed jiangzemin. >> to be the leading successor. for 20 years you can imagine how many countri a person would find the terms ofs after could succeed and... go ahead. >> rose: what's interesting is jiang zemin was very popular with western leaders. >> yes, he was. >> rose: much admired and liked because of his charm and almost western style. >> and that's part of the reason that deng selected him because he could combine that-- the charm and his commientto opening-- with a toughness. and he had crackdown on shanghai newspaper and he had cracked downn student movement and the 1986 and had done in the a relatively quiet way that was... >> rose: and hu jintao h cracked down in tibet. >>es. and denganted somebody who was very firm and hu bong had not been firm enough and i suspect although we don't have the smoking gun he probably thought that the man riding high a year before the tiananmen incident was tough enough, they are. >> rose: how did he define, "tough"? to make the hard steps that make sure ther

obama wanted to buy a copy of the magazine, but he had to borrow five bucks from hu jintao. [ laughter applause ] [ as obama ] "you got any money? can i have some more money? you got any money?" hey, you guys, this sunday is the 42nd annual new york city marathon, you guys. [ cheers and applause ] >> steve: come on. >> jimmy: love that. this is a chance to bring together all the best runners in the united states and watch them lose to a guy from kenya. [ laughter ] it's a great tradition. we do it every year. [ laughter ] that's right. sunday is the new york city marathon. i'm so psyched. i'm going to put on my tightest shorts, throw some vasoline on my nipples and go -- and go -- and go see a movie. [ laughter ] and just go -- and just go just check something out. i don't know what i'm going to do. >> steve: "puss in boots." you know. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: some tech news. there's a new iphone app that lets users pay for things by saying their own name out loud. finally answering the question, "how can buying condoms get even more uncomfortable?" uh -- [ laughter ] "steve higgins." [

during his visit to hawaii for the apec summit, chinese president hu jintao addressed business leaders from the asia-pacific region. he expressed china's desire to play a leading role in crafting a free trade framework. >> translator: china will speed up a free trade strategy and strengthen the economic collaboration with its main trade partners. ♪ >> reporter: last year a free trade agreement between china and the asean came into effect. on top of this, china aims to conclude this similar trade year with japan and south korea and is conducting a joint study with them. despite these efforts, china has long been worried about trans-pacific partnership, of which the country is not a member. at the joint news conference, china warned of the u.s.-led talks designed to set tpp rules for liberalizing trade and investment. >> any original integration like tpp or some other forms, should be inclusive, open and transparent. >> reporter: china also issued a caution to japan, which is poised to launch consultations with tpp member states with the view to fully entering into negotiations on it. ch

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and china continue to outline competing anomic programs hu jintao insisted on more influence for beijing as a growing power while obama zeroed in on china's trading decisions and avoid explains the differences that have filed up between the two. if there is any us state where the occupy movement has little chance it's probably why despite the high concentration of politicians and wall street big wigs socializing at the apec summit the only place people are willing to occupy here on mass of the beach is with one exception these protesters are against greed and social injustice they're against economic inequality and they are against china. sedan clearly the mood at the podium was soon a little hostile i think we can benefit from trade with china and i want certainly to continue cultivating a. a constructive relationship with the chinese government but we're going to continue to be firm in insisting that they operate by the same rules that. everybody else operates on his political opponents were even mobility here and i happen to think that the. communist chinese government will end up on

and china now ranks second between barack obama and hu jintao in forbes list of the world's most powerful people. now a quarter past the hour here in moscow the california city of oakland is reeling after one of the biggest protests the occupy wall street movement has seen to date at least eighty demonstrators arrested many injured after their rally culminated in a heavy handed police crackdown it all started peacefully other protesters managing to shut down the city port with just the country's fifth largest without incident at the same time a general strike america's first of a half a century paralyzed several businesses in downtown our correspondent lucy company was there when things turned violent he describes how events. were sitting across from oscar grant's plaza which is the site of my oakland movements work protesters have been camping out for weeks in order to raise their voices against an equality social injustice the same issues that are motivating thousands of occupy wall street movements all across the country but of course the images are the things that we remember images a

regulating currency that china is completely fair to to abide by now it's interesting that while hu jintao has been quite politically correct while speaking on this issue there is a tradition at summits where leaders get together and where national costumes for a photo opportunity it's really a fun time for leaders to pot each other in the box and joke around but this year journalists were surprised to see that this photo op in hawaiian shirts never happened and we were hearing that this is because china was refusing to put on the one shirt so it really looks like the united states had a hard time during these last two days at apac in honolulu convincing china not only when it comes to konami issues but really issues of the wardrobe as well and this is something that many analysts are not surprised to see because the u.s. currently doesn't have a lot of leverage when it comes to dealing with china as china of course the market for credit or for the united states holding over one trillion dollars in u.s. debt russia is in fact pretty. it to host the apec summit next year in the far eastern

president obama then met with chinese president hu jintao. the u.s.ides by international rules. still ahead, the wife of joe paterno talks about the support her family received in the wake of the scandal. in today's office politics, tom brokaw recalls the debate he moderated in the history of presidential politics. >>> tears and hugs, a homecoming for a hometown hero. you're watching "weekends with alex witt." ♪ ♪♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] everyone deserves the gift of a pain free holiday. this season, discover aleve. all day pain relief with just two pills. ♪ oh, oh ca♪ iom yo♪son, discover aleve. [ ou rr. merres candidate michele bachmann weighed in on the penn state scandal. speaking with david gregory on "meet the press" she expressed her feelings as a mother learning about the charges against jerry sandusky. >> this is so horrific on the level of a parent. i think about my children, if that was my child, and i think my automatic reaction would be, even though i'm a small woman, i would want to find that guy and beat him to a pulp. >> she also said

president hu jintao quietly standing there. the chinese have essentially said, "don't look to us," reportedly telling european leaders they're confident that europe has "all the wisdom and capability" to fix the problem. beijing has said it could lend billions but if and only if there's proof this bailout will work. china, of course, is already the largest holder of u.s. debt. of course, china does hold $3 trillion in foreign currencies already. not looking to add greek debt, at least not yet. and one more note. when the president arrived here in cannes today famous for his film festival, he said, "i came to see some movies." his attempt at humor as they deal with the serious economic picture here tonight. >> all right, a big day at the summit. thank you david muir tonight. >>> and now, the republican front runner herman cain, battling that tempest, three women claiming sexual harassment. and today the candidate's supporters rallied around him, evoking a racially chapter in american history. abc's january coron karl explai. >>