and what we saw in the asian tigers you take a position similar times you get a small only garhi which is very close to the political class they get laws changed for them to enable their own speculation to be incredibly profitable. to borrow a huge amount from banks that they can count on the invest enormously in local in the case of thailand it was actually the property as well and then when things go belly up they expect the people to bail them out so i mean the story of the of the of the wall street crush the story of the asian crush euro broadly similar and what makes art and more unique is the sense of the country is small so the power of a. tiny minority to read the effect what i would regard as a lesson many years ago a financial kuttab is actually rather rather real david mcwilliams i understand the comparison to the an asian country and some of the on the financial crisis around the world but in ireland they just bent decades fighting an irish independent movement only to be now colonised by angle irish bank words on fire about where's all the revolutionary where's the you kno

they sent their largest ever delegation to the asian games. china has always dominated the middle table. they usually play off second place between japan and south korea, competing for the runner- up position. for all the nations here, the importance of the asian games is that it is a big staging plays on the way to the 2012 london olympics. it is the first taste for some of the old -- of the athletes for their first international olympics. >> rahm has gained another tourist attraction, an ancient temple that has reopened. many are angry at the government's plan to slash arts funding. hundreds of museums and galleries will be closed in protest on saturday. >> nearly 2000 years after it was built, rome's colosseum has lost none of its power to impress or draw crowds. now in its shadow, another ancient treasure has reopened. much of its roof may be missing, but the temple of venus in rome still hints of the skill and ingenuity of a lost age. >> this is an intriguing monument, not just because it was the biggest tumble in the area, but because it

but he seems to be going home empty-handed after this week-long asian tour. the president heads to japan, where he will be meeting with asian-pacific leaders. and the agenda looks quite familiar. global trade and economic growth. rob and mike? >> the president was also talking about continuing the bush tax cuts. what did he say about that? >> reporter: this is certainly a hot-button issue back in washington and something the white house is going to have to deal with in the next couple weeks. but president obama said today he is not going to negotiate this from seoul, south korea. he's not sat down yet with the republican leadership, which he will do this thursday at the white house. next thursday at the white house. and he said, until then, he's not going to talk about it. but he did maintain that his key priority is not raising taxes on the middle class. the one thing that is negotiable, is raising taxes on the upper income of americans. that will be very controversial when he has that meeting. they have a lot to hammer out. mike? >> a lot to hammer out in s

they will start to be curious and wonder how this is here and how we look at the asian culture. >> you have lived internationally, you have lived in cities like new york and beijing, now shanghai. you made a very conscious decision to lend this culture to san francisco as opposed to having it premier as an exhibition at another museum. >> i am very satisfied with the turnout and i lived in new york for 8 years and all of my children were born in new york. i already have the american spirit. i am proud to be here and i really appreciate the spirit of committing to things and being honored and being collaborative. when i flashed back to my career, i think about what an artist can do is a teeny tiny thing. i want to contribute to the hall human society. what art can do is just this tiny bit. >> your invitation has already proven to be a great success and we really look forward to spending time with your sculpture. thank you for being part of "culture wire." >> thank you for being part of this project. >> thank you for watching. join us for future episodes. you can when a resident of san f

. >>> president barack obama is wrapping up his asian trip in his summit of pacific nations in japan. he is hoping to get a nuclear weapons treaty ratified next week when congress returns to work next week. the treaty is pending in the senate. and there is republican resistance to the deal. >> i want to get the treaty done during the lame duck session and i communicated to congress that is it a top priority. >> president obama reiterated his support for bringing russia into the wto. >>> the president urged japan and asian leaders to keep their markets open. the united states would compete to get jobs back to this country but the success of asian countries should not come at each other's expense. >> in japan or china or indonesia, also have a direct effect on the lives and fortunes of the american people. >> president obama cut a trade deal with india but not one with south korea. the president is due to return to washington on sunday afternoon. >>> former white house chief of staff rahm emanuel announced his candidacy for mayor of chicago. it comes a month after stepping down from his

but it's nearing the period of unrest representatives of these four guys asians gathered and assessed those events together and prepared their proposals on standardizing the situation and we continue doing so on other problems of central asia besides kurdistan's for instance we've been working together on the problem of the border on afghanistan i'm very grateful to the always see secretary-general mr bush on board for being so open to this cooperation. by the way some criticize the safest here and we talked about that last time around for not responding quickly enough to i think question and courage. the russian foreign ministry even said recently that in the. crisis response mechanisms should be a priority what song do you think these mechanisms are developing now. they certainly are the next serious to some into which will take place on december tenth will be devoted to these issues but actually one the leaders of the c.s.t. all countries met in the year of on recently they spoke highly of c.s.t. oh efforts our response to the current is crisis was prompt and effective we designed

the idea is to create a security community united states and the your atlantic and your asian regions its chances three quel real outlines in the context of the overseas summit in. december the first and second quote. considering the defects you mentioned nevertheless given mr laws understanding has become a new foundation for the new security system that president medvedev spoke about. yes it can. but only if the international security organizations support its activities the president of russia incidentally spoke about that too. we need a legally binding treaty establishing a new security system in the euro atlantic area. but the treaty should include not only nations located in that region but also security organizations they deal with security issues in that region. would bring some specific decisions on afghanistan i'd like to discuss that in more detail. many believe it is high time something like a marshall plan for afghanistan was approved that which would not only put an end to the war but also provide ate and investments which is a basis for a new life in anything or at leas

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asian traditions in york, even as a rising power is on the move. and this is not to say that indonesia is without imperfections. no country is. here we can find the ability to bridge the divide and of freedom, race, and religion. as a child of a different race who came here from a distant country, i found this spirit and the greeting i received upon moving here. as a christian visiting a mosque on this visit, i founded in the words of the leader who was asked about my visit and said, muslims are also allowed in churches. we are all god's followers. we cannot give in to doubt or citizenand cynicism or despair. it tells us unity is more powerful than division and the people of this world can live together in peace. may our two nations working together with faith pin indetermination share these truce with all mankind. [applause] thank you. >> this season and networks provide coverage of politics, a non-fiction books and history. it is all available online in social networking site. find our content anytime 3 cspan's video library. bringing our resourc

a prominent orthodox christian he thought that i was asian and russia sued him for inciting religious hatred i knew there was no position there people had the right to be protected from having their beliefs insulted the man deserves punishment it was all a feel for him no biggie he's crazy. at the moment but i'm up he did not wait for the court decision and fled he's now living in exile in bulgaria known just. i paid a high price i am separated from my homeland but if i'd gone to prison i wouldn't paid an even higher price those people have tried to destroy me just maybe. we have laws to protect religion on the one hand to put in laws that protect the individual's right to freedom of expression he was caught between the two bills which were to look was accused of committing hate crimes that i think is wrong with you. since his crucifixion performance dozens of other artists have been fined and have their shows closed most after mass destruction by christian groups are disclaimed the russian state and also censorship from the new i believe that would happen to a leg is really unjust ou

. >> asians are very particular about looking white. where as i think, the, in the united states, everybody wants to look tan. >> reporter: lesson number two, don't drive that pink car up to a customer's home. it's okay for dallas. but not in beijing. in another city, another big american brand has spent 20 years working the country and now mcdonald's opens a new location every other day. tim fenton, president of international operations for this region, says american companies that want to succeed here need the three ps. >> patience. persistence and pockets. deep pockets. >> reporter: deep pockets to create infrastructure and learn from mistakes. tell me the biggest mistake you made. >> i would say when we tried to launch rice burger. they didn't buy it. people come to mcdonald's for what we are, they don't want to come to us for rice. so that was a learning we had. >> reporter: the biggest seller turns out to be a crunchy chicken sandwich probably too spicy hot for most american tastes. an alternative french fries -- steamed corn in a

>> you know, my husband and i were founders of asian american says at berkeley. history has been sitting on my shoulder the whole way through. my great grandfather came from this city after the 1906 earthquake, took the ferry across san francisco and sat on h street on the family association. that association still stands. and we're going to start our inaugural march from there. >> belva: i want to thank you so much. very good of you to come and join us. >> thank you very much. >> belva: and of course we wish you the best. >> thank you. >> belva: that's all the time that we have. visit kqed.org/thisweek to watch episodes and segments of our program, and you can share your thoughts about the show there as well. well, we'll be off next week for the holiday and wish you a happy thanksgiving. thank you for joining us. i'm belva davis. good night.

let's have a look at the markets asian stocks were mostly higher all thursday. plans nicky and do the training session half a percent of the black oil firms in the region high on strong crude futures woodside petroleum was up point four percent but with china climbed two percent stocks in hong kong were up as well helped by an overnight rally on wall street. and europe stocks are also gaining the puts his up point three percent boosted by games in the mining sector shares an extraordinarily over two percent newspaper publishing daily mail and general trust drop two and a half percent reporting its annual results thomas cook group rose over one i have sent for green a joint venture in russia warning that in a moment. here in russia both tears in my eyes it's a trading in the black listed by energy majors all the blue chips are gaining with the most one a half percent while will smith and look all up under a quarter of a percent this hour noise can a kill is also up less than half a percent on the r.t.s. . for the second biggest bank d.t.b. expects its two thousan

taiwan you know you can look at any of the asian countries india look at their economies are booming i mean it's and here we are in a stagnant economy and we are hard to take the jobs for americans so there is a downward trend going on in america some by looking after the world not the chinese. india. did you think the united states is doing a good job for looking out for everyone well. i sometimes think we get involved things we should be involved in. we're in trouble i mean we've all german from other countries were open comment and. we need to do the same we need to we need to rethink what we're doing is that a good thing or a bad thing. it's a bad thing for the americans and the british and europeans it's a good thing for everybody else we're still doing good but maybe not as good. but we're still a leader and i think so why does it matter. well this is america and everybody always looked up to us so it's a matter of pride do you think think so i think so we've got such a such a far far away from where we used to be in terms of at least economically that. i think will find our wa

in china to get back in g twenty summits leave the world with a feeling that the asian state is now in the driving seat of the global economy. with republicans in the u.s. congress urging spending cuts in every field education and health care are likely targets but not it seems an imperial ambitions. hope for the homeless are teammates one doctor in moscow has made of her quest to help the less fortunate some of them have no one else to turn to. it is not yet in moscow you're watching r.t.m. arena joshua welcome to the program not content with the apec summit in japan and g. twenty gathering in south korea the foreign ministers of three emerging powers have been talking economy and politics and china russia india and china are part of a powerful bloc known as brick which is hoping to change the economic landscape of the planet so who's already leaving the dominant powers of today behind r.t.s. are still your search. from a pile of ruins right after the second world war to an economic powerhouse second only to the u.s. all of the spat of a single lifetime major pad economic miracle. you

dives into some authentic asian culture right here in the russian capital check it out coming your way next. five years ago and from. the various shops. that's what we'll be exploring. chinese culture. although thousands of kilometers from moscow people forget that russia borders china the countries have had diplomatic and commercial relations for centuries and today this extends to russia's fascination with chinese traditions and designs. from several manufacturers in china and it's all handmade good pieces made of solid wood inlaid with pearls and various turds many chinese people who come to our shop i'm very impressed as this is has been difficult but then to find such missing furniture in their country and we have it here in. dating back thousands of years chinese interior design is founded on the principles of energy simplicity and nature they strive to achieve surroundings characterized by tranquility and peace and from chinese lanterns to rich opulent fabrics and moscow stores like china style here will help you create such a rich exotic look in your home in russia as a form of

now let's have a look at how the markets are doing asian stocks last lehi with all companies gaining on strong crude futures japan's negating half a percent while south korean cost p last point two percent all farms in the region are higher with woodside petroleum were up four point zero point four percent while china climbed nearly two percent hong kong stocks up as well helped by an overnight rally on wall street. and european stocks are higher on tuesday thursday in what's to be a quiet trading session as u.s. markets remain closed for the thanksgiving holiday the footsies point three percent higher markets a lift by miners and carmakers shares of xstrata up over two percent newspaper publisher daily mail and general trust dropped two point four percent after reporting its annual results thomas group rose one point six percent up to agreeing a joint venture in russia more and in a moment. and russian markets are trading in the black bull markets are trading high in afternoon session boosted by energy majors all the blue chips are gaining with gazprom rawson of the up over one half

it's economic ties and it's presence and the asian pacific region the main focus is china and the scale of this forum shows how much russia's hopes for future prosperity in trade laws with the east might in a question altie moscow russia is out of the canadian dollar to its international reserves before the change the reserves comprise forty seven percent us dollars forty one percent of euros ten percent of british pounds two percent japanese yen and a small amount in swiss francs the deputy chairman of the central bank says the initial holding in canadian dollars is small but russia may increase it within a few months the international reserves currently total four hundred ninety billion u.s. dollars. dollars have a look at how the markets are doing asia stocks are mostly higher on thursday japan's nikkei end of the trading session half a percent in the black oil for arms of the region high on strong crude futures woodside petroleum up point four percent while petro china one two percent talks in hong kong were as well up as well help line overnight rally on wall street. and in europe

once the world's fourth largest lake essential asians are all sea is now famous for other reasons with ninety percent of its water lost through so. projects it's now little more than an environmental catastrophe and as our teens in france reports the c's demise also poses a serious threat to people's health. erroll sea is a shadow of its former self those in the kazak city are rask once had the sea at their doorstep but are now confronted by the haunting sight of abandoned ships the water is twenty kilometers away and from the dried up remains sickness comes one local woman who chose not to be named remembers when friends and family started to fall ill. here new diseases a match that we had never seen in high numbers especially related to breathe in my husband's good chronic bronchitis that's how i live you can see salt in the air but you feel it on the skin and you can feel it on the tongue. fields planted to make the soviet union completely self-sufficient in cotton consumed the rivers feeding into the air will see decade by decade it nearly disappeared now what was once the world's

five projects and this a full use of the overall company strategy to diversify its presence in the asian up pacific region meanwhile there are two major gas transportation projects that the i touch in today and these were north and a south stream while the construction of a north stream project is almost done and the first gas supplies by the pipeline is will start next year in twenty eleven however the situation over at the south stream project this is still unclear alexandra midday do for only months and today that other players from of the global energy community are welcome to participate and this project parties medina course for fourteen from gas from his headquarters the euro has come off a seven week low against the dollar but it remains vulnerable as investors wait for a decision on a possible bailout for ireland dublin is continuing to resist pressure check sept eighth from its euro zone partners such meeting the finance ministers in brussels it says it's not in danger of defaulting on its debt paul marco from h.s.b.c. explains why arland small economies such a big problem may

you know that russia had just been adopted the noise cement to the east asian summit mechanism and all winter gratian into asia in the pacific is impossible with the development of far east and they can rely lands which are important strategic of course of russia in this area so this is quite a logical development from the point to your russian foreign policy but not meant to. cause friction with japan do you think if and when could we see some kind of revolution here just briefly. said again do you think we could see any kind of resolution. well no resolution in the short term and you know that the russia have suggested they took in two thousand and five two. to the decision that we should. surrenders to our. intercourse with a song for over with john for a joint statement of nine hundred sixty five overnight in the fifty six about the subpoena rejected so russia is not in a position to propose new compromise but i don't think that russian position of will get tougher. here due to arrive from russia's national committee on asia pacific security thank you very much for your analysis th

and look at the markets now another green day for asian stocks down high on friday pulling the gains on wall street commodity related shares were on the rise sumitomo meshal mining was up five point three percent and in five games two point four percent in tokyo. and european stock markets a high at day off the markets ravage in a reaction to another round of quantitative easing find the u.s. treasuries to seizing the janus fargo bank of scotland and the nation matthew shares up wrong to send. the news in briefs nala russian for toenail dot our usage forty one percent in london after raising nine hundred two. well of million dollars in the city's biggest i.p.o. since july a stock which is a russian investor in facebook climbed from eleven point three to thirty nine dollars in london trading today at that price bailed out are here as the best first a performance among london stocks for at least two years. and the skies are open once again across moscow russian pilots knol longer need to seek permission to fly in the city but while certain regulations for a lightweight aircraft have be

a prominent orthodox christian he thought that i was asian and russia sued him for inciting religious hatred i knew there was no position there people had the right to be protected from having their beliefs insulted the man deserves punishment it was all a feel for him no it's a pity he's crazy. that a moment about how much he did not wait for the court decision and fled he's now living in exile and bulgaria. i paid a high price i am separated from my homeland but if i'd gone to prison i would have paid an even higher price those people have tried to destroy me just moved in with nothing in choice could our society is not tolerant of me and he's aggressive religious groups seek out things to be offended about with which i don't agree with his method but i support a living. like you. since his crucifixion performance dozens of other artists have been fined and have their shows closed most of the mass destruction by christian groups are to scream the russian state and doors of censorship for the i believe that would happen to a leg is really unjust our society is intolerant and these ag

and let's have a look at the markets asian markets were mixed on wednesday tokyo so markets finished lower but recovered from earlier sell offs japan's nikkei closed point eight percent in the red and south korea's coast because it ended point two percent of all among exporters olympos fell point six percent recall and shed nearly three percent and kind of point nine percent. over to europe where stocks are higher following heavy losses in the previous two sessions both of pussy on the dax a trading over half a percent higher among shaz on the move u.k. food service company called pasqua that's up three point four percent after lifting its dividend payout by a third bank of ireland to up around six percent up to a week for the irish government will take the majority stake in the lead. here in russia markets have reversed from earlier and also not trading in the black this hour most of the blue chips are in the black with noise the biggest gainer up one half percent bucking the trend are b two b. and ross telecom that a tweet. seven percent lower shares of ross have on the downturn ha

asian part this particularly china and russia said people told them to do what they have started to do with. the euro namely partnership for what didn't ization are now next year the police force is set to be shaken up here in russia do you think it's clear from the president's speech that the current reform is going as planned. oh well. the president didn't say a lot of. police reform he mentioned that as an important issue and i would say that i expected more. address because this is a show that concerns every russian citizen and corruption in the law enforcement agencies in the russia is overwhelming and we have to start doing something about that all right political analyst igor to observe off live from moscow thank you. well still ahead for you here on r t drumming for peace but no one is listening. you cannot fight terror with a wall because wall is terror that's our main issue you know we explore why the authorities and media in denmark it's turning a blind eye to campaigning demanding the country's troops withdraw from afghanistan . it's this year's last chance for barack obama

now let's have a look at how the markets are doing asian stocks mostly higher with oil companies gaining on strong crude futures japan's nikkei gaining half a percent while south korean cost be down point two percent of all firms in the region ohio with woodside petroleum up point four percent while the china climb nearly two percent hong kong stocks are up as well help find overnight rally on wall street. and in europe stocks are open early thursday and what's likely to be a quiet trading session as u.s. markets remain closed for thanksgiving among stocks on the move newspaper publishes daily mail and general trust two point four percent after reporting its annual results thomas cook group rose one point six percent after agreeing a joint venture in russia the footsies point three percent higher so as germany's dax. russian markets are trading in the black as well both the r.t.s. and my xix are higher the markets are extending wednesday's rally norsk may kill our leading on the r.t.s. bucking the trend though on them isaac's a look. ireland has unveiled the harshest budget measures in i

let's not get some more details on this and talk to professor dimitri stout soft foods the head of asian studies at moscow state university of international relations good to see you. on first initiated this round of tension respond to president medea this recent visit to the coup real islands then changed his mind over having perhaps some dialogue why the change in maneuvering. well to my mind. understands that disrupting relations with russia does not serve its national interests and. well. the relations with the neighbors. perhaps. one of the main priorities of the militarization of the relations with neighbors is one of the priorities of the current cabinet no and i think that. for. the main objective was to show its position over the cruel loans dispute but not to spoil relations with russia completely so i think that that was. the point was just to. come back to their normal position of the relations and to try to resume normal dialogue ok so despite the dispute over the caribbean islands japan wants a good neighborly relationship with russia but russia is asking japan to adopt a l

and let's look at how the markets are doing asian stocks are mostly higher on thursday japan's nikkei end of the trading session half a percent in the black oil firms in the region hyrst strong crude futures website petroleum point four percent while petro china climbed two percent stocks in hong kong were up as well helped by an overnight rally on wall street. and in europe stocks are also gaining the footsie is up almost a quarter percent boosted by gains for the mining sector shares an extra hour up over two percent a newspaper publisher daily mail and general trust dropped two point four percent after reporting its annual results thomas cook group rose over one point five percent after agreeing a joint venture in russia that in a moment. and here in russia both the r.t.s. and my sets are trading higher on the day by energy majors most of the blue chips are gaining with gazprom and also nickel i've just over one percent. and russia second biggest bank the t.v. expects its two thousand and ten net profits to be twenty percent more than previously expected the bank was projecting a t

they will start to be curious and wonder how this is here and how we look at the asian culture. >> you have lived internationally, you have lived in cities like new york and beijing, now shanghai. you made a very conscious decision to lend this culture to san francisco as opposed to having it premier as an exhibition at another museum. >> i am very satisfied with the turnout and i lived in new york for 8 years and all of my children were born in new york.

it is the second nation on his 10-day asian tour, and a nation where he spent four years as a child. >> this trip has already been canceled twice, and no sooner did the president touched down in jakarta that the white house announced that his visit may be cut short over concerns about volcanic ash. first, india, and today, indonesia. it is the second leg of president barack obama's four- nation, 10-day asian tour, a trip designed to boost economic and security ties. >> as president, i am here to focus not on the past, but the pitcher, the governments of partnerships we are building been -- comprehensive partnerships we are building between the united states and indonesia. >> the agenda is designed to show president obama is committed to bridging device between the muslim world and the west. obama and his indonesian counterparts are expected to sign a comprehensive partnership agreed to a year ago that would cover security and trade issues. obama will also deliver what is being called a major speech focused on the themes of democracy, development, and diplomacy. ahead of the trip, pro