now of course they're going to put in is going to meet with the chinese president hu jintao just later today in fact both men are sort of the focal focal groups. off the summit least for today the first leaders the first day off the leaders met so we can expect both of them to deliver to deliver a keynote address as it was and is going to deliver his address later in the day and hu jintao may deliver his tomorrow. but all right as we can see there is a whole variety of issues to be discussed they are not just economy but politics as well it's also high on the agenda of data stan is a major concern now for countries in the region so what is president potence take on the issue. well of course galveston is remaining to be one of the most volatile hot spots on the map if you look at the global if you look at it in the global sense of course we're still have taliban in full effect unfortunately in the country there is not really so much about the not so much of a war but again a very on easy situation in afghanistan and one of the primary concerns for russia is of course the drug traffickin

>> reporter: hu jintao wants to strengthen economic relations with russia. china's economy is slowing down, due to europe's credit crisis. russia's far east has great potential, both as a supplier of natural resources to chinese businesses, and as a market for their products. chinese officials underscored the need to cooperate with russia. >> translator: russia has accelerated development in the far east and eastern siberia. this development could also benefit neighboring nations, including china. >> reporter: i have attended several press briefings held by apec's delegations. many speak of the need to strengthen trade relations with china. the influence of chinese economy in the region is growing tremendously. this includes the border area between china and russia. suifenhe is a small town on china's border with russia. there are signs in russian everywhere, and the streets are so full of russian people, it looks as if it could be in russia. every year around 500,000 people visit from across the border, five times the town's population. most of them are fro

chinese president hu jintao 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 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 the 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 you have to understand that apec summit increasingly becomes not just a financial

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. >> rose: one of the things people are asking in china is how is he different than hu jintao who was an engineer, not a princeling, worked his way up. xi jinping is a princeling but they say they are dramatically different. it may simply be a new generation or it may be more. or they came to power at a different time and therefore they're shaped by their own evolution? >> a lot of anticipation. you know, i think there's a feeling that hu jintao, when jaw bow administration really ran out of gas. but china's been led by a man for ten years now, i don't think he's ever given an interview. we know so little about this man. and to double down on the seriousness of that, we know so little about xi jinping, the man coming in. >> rose: (laughs) including where he's ban the last two weeks. >> i was there when he went missing. as i wrote at the time, i think he was hiding under his bed because it was so scary. >> rose: they're saying he was in a sporting accident, i've heard. >> i've heard everything, that he was attacked, that he had a heart attack, a back ache, a back strain. i've heard eve

putin gave priority to china's president hu jintao by meeting with him first. the countries share a border

still, chinese leader hu jintao attended the ceremony. this year the two sides couldn't overcome their differences over the islands. protesters across china have shown how they feel about the senkaku over the past two weeks, and the government leaders could have come under more criticism if they had allowed the ceremony to go ahead. members of the communist party would hold their national congress later this year. they gather only once every five years. and the political analysts say chinese leaders could have jeopardized their standing in the party if they had attended the anniversary ceremony. >> translator: japan hurt our feelings by nationalizing the islands. the chinese government made the correct decision. >> translator: both countries are responding too harshly. they need to be more level-headed. >> reporter: chinese media say organizers will hold ceremonial events at an appropriate time. their report did not say those events had been canceled. the media say china's stance on building friendship with japan is unchanged. however, th

vice president xi jinping is slated to succeed hu jintao and assume top post of the communist party. analysts are focusing on the appointments and policy decisions that are made under the new leadership. >>> people in northern japan watched work come to a halt on a nuclear plant there following lasts year's accident at fukushima daiichi. but they could soon see construction crews get back to it. it would be the first time since march 2011 this kind of work has resumed. crews with electric power development company or j-power started building the plant in 2008. it's located in the town of ohma in aomori prefecture. engineers expected to start operating the facility in november 2014. but no work has gone on for the past year and a half. j-power executives decided earlier this month to resume construction after government leaders approved japan's new energy policy. the policy allows work to continue on plants already under construction while at the same time encourages japanese to end their reliance on nuclear power by the 2030s. the industry minister visited aomori prefecture two weeks

president hu jintao, when gentleman boo and others attend the event. the aircraft carrier is named "lianang." they bought it from the ukraine 14 years ago it has been refurbished and had navigation trials last year. wen said commissioning the aircraft car an important step to modernizing the nave and i have enhancing the country's overall strength. observers stay is likely to increase regional concern over china's naval capability. >>> people at the bank of japan are busy crunching you the numbers for a business survey. yuko fusion she ma joins us. how is it look? >> the central bank won't release their survey until next week but analysts are already forecasting -- coming out with their forecast and business sentiment among major japanese manufacturers is expected to worsen due to the fact of a global economic slow down. 13 private institutes gave their forecast ahead of the bank of japan's quarterly survey to be released on october 1st. all 13 institutes forecast a decline in sentiment compared to the survey conducted three months ago. their predictio

vice president xi jinping is slated to succeed hu jintao and assume the top post of general secretary of the communist party. analysts are focusing on the appointments and policy decisions that are made under the new leadership. >>> people in northern japan watched work come to a halt on a nuclear plant there following lasts year's accident at fukushima daiichi. but they could soon see construction crews get back to it. it would be the first time since march 2011 this kind of work has resumed. crews with electric power development company, or j-power, started building the plant in 2008. it's located in the town of ohma in aomori prefecture. engineers expected to start operating the facility in november 2014. but no work has gone on for the past year and a half. j-power executives decided earlier this month to resume construction after government leaders approved japan's new energy policy. the policy allows work to continue on plants already under construction while at the same time encourages japanese to end their reliance on nuclear power by the 2030s. industry minister yukio edano v

secretary of state clinton was in beijing earlier this morning, meeting with chin needs president hu jintao. >> interesting. the first convention she has missed since 1968. she's been in the game a long time. >>> back here at home, the remnants of isaac are leaving much of the east coast sopping wet for the second-straight day. soaking downpours swept in yesterday, triggering flooding and stranding cars down from vermont to virginia. the storm triggered an apparent tornado in bell mar, new jersey. the winds toppled trees and power lines. thankfully, no one was hurt. >>> and tropical storm leslie is on a slow approach to bermuda, stirring up 65-mile-per-hour winds. it's now on track to hit the island sunday morning as a cat 2 hurricane. it's too early to tell if leslie will hit new england, though. it will kick up rough surf along much of the east coast. tropical storm michael has formed out in the atlantic. september, a busy month of storm season. >>> in southern california, a stubborn wildfire that forced thousands of people to evacuate, is still blazing through angeles national forest. th

>> reporter: hu jintao wants to strengthen economic relations with russia. china's economy is slowing down due to europe's credit crisis. russia's far east has great potential, both as a supplier of natural resources to chinese businesses, and as a market for their products. chinese officials underscored the need to cooperate with russia. >> translator: russia has accelerated development in the far east and eastern siberia. this development could also benefit neighboring nations, including china. >> reporter: i have attended several press briefings held by apec's delegations. many speak of the need to strengthen trade relations with china. the influence of chinese economy in the region is growing tremendously. this includes the border area between china and russia. suifenhe is a small town on china's border with russia. there are signs in russian everywhere, and the streets are so full of russian people, it looks as if it could be in russia. every year around 500,000 people visit from across the border, five times the town's population. most of them are from

takes office next spring chinese vice president xi g p a's to replace china's president right now who jintao and that's going to be a generational change really how school is do you think the whole transition will be actually this year is a power transition year in the war not on not only in china we are going to have the. congress in the conference. next month so the power transmission i think china we're not affect our policy our strategy and. focus our attention to develop the economy to have a good neighbor who we all the neighboring countries and to have a stable relations with a large tents. with the united states and with european countries so i think. when when he takes office next year i'm sure he will continue our policy no change no fundamental change for his policy but still he's considered to be a reformer and more open to the west than his predecessor i think his daughter is studying hard words he did nothing there is going to be a new balance in china's foreign policy under his presidency i'm sure this should be reform not only khana me you know actually during the previous th

void yet another crisis of growth are needed and they need it quickly china's outgoing president hu jintao says he's very much concerned with notable downside risks to a slowing economy this is coupled with the fact that you are still in the deep debt crisis over russia's naturally turning to asia boosting trade in the pacific rim the twenty one percent overall but the e.u. remains its main trade partner accounting for fifty one percent so present wants to very much trade was. concerned with the recent investigation into gas dominance. and. i think the main reason for this investigation is the difficult economic situation in the euro zone you're mainly talking about eastern european countries and the problem is that back in the days when they joined the european union the liabilities to subsidise those economies but apparently someone in the european commission decided that we must assume part of this burden i mean that europe wants to maintain its political influence and things that we should pay a little to assist this but that is not a constructive approach. for russia the apec summit i

needed and they need it quickly china's outgoing president hu jintao says he's very much concerned with notable downside risks with slowing economy this is coupled with the fact that you still in a deep debt crisis so russia is naturally turning to asia boosting trade in the pacific rim twenty one percent. but the e.u. remains its main trade accounting for fifty one percent so president putin wants to very much trade with the e.u. concerned with the recent investigation into gas dominance. i think the main reason for this investigation is the difficult economic situation in the eurozone. countries and the problem is. the join the european union. to subsidise those economies. and things that we should. strive. for russia the apec summit is not so much about the business deals it's about building bridges. on the sidelines of the. negotiations with new zealand to form free trade zones and other may sound surprising as they're not exactly the most significant trade partners from moscow china has also done the same thing because it sets a precedent for the deal is the right time because russ

the time is between putin and hu jintao 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 coordination between the two sides on those political issues that he 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 if the u.s. can exert its influence on its european allies in asia and japan specifically so we're seeing a lot of that. turning to syria where a powerful explosion has rocked the country's biggest city aleppo a car bomb near two hospitals in a sports stadium killed at. seventeen civilians and injured forty others the city's been plagued by violence a massive battle between rebels and government forces has been

turnover rate now of course they're going to put in is going to meet with the chinese president hu jintao just later today in fact both men are sort of the focal focal group off the summit least for today but of course afghanistan is remaining one of the most volatile hot spots on the map if you look at the global and if you look at it in a global sense of course with still have taliban and. all effect unfortunately in the country one of the primary concerns for russia is of course the drug trafficking and the drug production in the country unfortunately a lot of the heroin which is being made and produced in afghanistan is being transferred into russia a lot of russian health officials and health and security officials have constantly pressed on the issue saying that something needs to be done but again russia can no go it alone they have to have partners in that area and the president put it in his interview expressed a sort of a disillusionment with some of those who really should be helping out russia the u.s. and its allies went into afghanistan and now that thinking about how they c

turnover rate now of course they're going to put in is going to meet with the chinese president hu jintao just later today in fact both men are sort of the focal focal groups off the summit least for today but of course afghanistan is remaining one of the most volatile hot spots with still have taliban in full effect unfortunately in the country one of the primary concerns for russia is of course the drug trafficking and the drug production in the country unfortunately a lot of the heroin which is being made and produced in afghanistan is being transferred into russia president puts it in his interview expressed a sort of a disillusionment with some of those who really should be helping out russia the u.s. and its allies went into afghanistan was another. all thinking about how they can get out of the nine percent of that country's g.d.p. comes from drug trafficking if you want to replace this nine percent you have to pay no one wants to look at if you go after drugs people will go after you and that's all there is to it everyone those the drug revenues opponent a used to finance terroris

the time between putin and hu jintao have 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 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. we'll bring you more on the ongoing asia pacific economic cooperation summit in light of our stock in our business update that's a little later this hour. two bomb blasts have rocked the syrian capital damascus one of the explosions was between the justice and information ministry because no casual