russia seeks to break the iranian nuclear stand off by hosting an international conference in moscow all sides are dog in deep with tough sanctions in the air as to iran refuses to relinquish its right to atomic an orgy. good news for those gathering for the g. twenty meeting to discuss among others the debt battered euro zone greece seems to be staying was the euro as a pro bailout party takes the lead in the election. egyptians awaits the results of the country's presidential election as islam is claiming an official early lead of the first democratic presidential poll since the ouster of hosni mubarak.

it is eighty and the russian capital you're watching r t m arena joshua into the program now russia is seeking to break the long running stalemate over iran's nuclear program as moscow host an international conference on the conversational issue to iran faces tough new sanctions from the u.s. and the e.u. but is refusing to back down demanding recognition for what it calls its peaceful atomic ambitions lucy coffin of his at the russian foreign ministry for us with the latest good morning to you lucy so what exactly is at stake as six world powers face off where these lawmakers stayed in moscow. well a lot is at stake and all eyes are on moscow in fact the hotel behind me is right now where all the world leaders are meeting hoping to essentially of birds the collapse of diplomatic talks over iran's nuclear ambitions and to potentially

forestall a new war in the middle east. now the consequences of failure here could be potentially devastating with israel having threatened to bomb iran should diplomacy not work also in the background as pressure on us president barack obama by nearly forty some members of congress who had written to the president demanding a serious consideration of a military solution to this issue if diplomacy doesn't work now in the background of all this are intense economic troubles both within iran and for the frail world's economy which can barely afford another spike in the world of crude prices should diplomacy not be successful in this issue this is again the third round of talks over iran's nuclear program as you had mentioned iran is simply trying to get recognition for its right to maintain its peaceful nuclear program for civil nuclear purposes while world powers want to run to halt most of its enrichment and

ship enriched oil as part of a nuclear supplies out of the country whether or not to the breakthrough will will will actually emerge or mains to be seen but it is a critical meeting which will really determine sort of the course of things to come . all right well as we know runs a key power player in the middle east so apart from the nuclear program what else is on the agenda there. well iran has been trying to assert its rights a rather reasonable right considering its location to play a greater role in some of the conflicts are going on right now syria especially now russia has tried to include iran in a new solution a new essentially contacts group to come to some sort of a peaceful solution to the crisis in syria this is not something that the west is effectively signing up for because again these tensions over the nuclear program have caused a lot of pressure on diplomats in the west to not consider iran as

a major player again considering the rons influence and power and make a. it's hard to imagine any sort of useful solution to the syrian crisis without iran's participation and this isn't that something that the country had brought up in the last round of talks in baghdad but was effectively slow snubbed by western diplomats so this is definitely an issue that iran hopes to bring up today whether or not western powers agree to consider these these side issues remains to be seen they are more focused on the nuclear program and the nuclear ambitions but of course we will keep you updated on how these talks actually pan out throughout the day absolutely was he thanks very much indeed for this update and as he said it will be crossing back to you for more and reporting there. they had of greece's probe democratic democracy party has announced he wants to form a coalition government as soon as possible that's after taking the most votes and sunday's parliamentary election but not enough for an outright majority it's a clear repeat of last month's vote after which coalition talks collapsed prompting

the country to go to the polls yet again and as our jake agrees now reports the election that was expected to stablish greece's future in the euro zone has once again led the country to a crossroads. places official results showing new democracy out in leeds this still presents new democracy though with a problem because even though it looks like that when this election they won't do so with an overall majority so they will need to seek the help and coalition part of another party the only real option for new democracy at the moment seems to be perhaps of the socialist party who they have governed with before us because they both share the message of austerity even though pasok policy would like to see some major changes to the bailout deal struck with the i.m.f. e.u. and eurozone choi cup now pasok are also presenting their own problems because we're seeing reports at the moment they may not be willing to function with new democracy without the input of so reserve because they have had such

a significant sway when it comes to these elections indeed even if they're not. parts of a future government series are still largely to have a major showing when it comes to a future parliament greece their opinions will count and that will be quite crucial these trying to stop any future austerity deals being made and the reworkings of that bailout plan they stand for a cancellation of austerity full stop saying it's been far too costly for the greek nation already they want to remain within the euro but this is being where much talk has centered in the build up to this campaign but those stressing that their conditions for a cancellation to austerity would lead to an exit from the euro zone they've always stressed that this week far too costly of the eurozone members which was their card their trump card here is of risk contagion to other countries including the likes of the more vulnerable ones at the moment spain and portugal. now greece will be among the topics she has discussed today mexico at a g. twenty summit and this will also be president putin's first chance to meet the u.s.

leader barack obama after he snubbed a gathering of the g. eight last month or he's going to check out has more. as far as global economy greece is on everyone's mind right now sunday elections there showed an outcome that is likely to ease fears around the world at least temporarily of a greek exit from the seventeen nation euro zone greece's economy falls out of the euro zone investors will become nervous about other financially shaky countries such as italy spain that would likely drive up borrowing costs with these countries that's already happening they'd be constantly seeking international bailouts europe would be trapped in a vicious circle that would send shock waves across the global financial system what's at the core of the problem as many see here is nations that leave beyond their means some take it too far and the message is they should be more responsible what's interesting that you twenty summit started four years ago when america's living beyond its means brought down the global economy back then the leaders of the world's top twenty commies got together and marshal the trillion dollars to

rescue the world from the credit crisis it became clear to everyone that the world is so interconnected now that irresponsible actions of one of the countries can trigger a domino effect and have huge impact on others of course it's not just the global economy that the leaders are here for their very pressing political let's say war and peace issues on the agenda with regards to syria the ongoing violence there is of extreme concern to everyone as far as how to go forward there are some differences even big president putin and president obama are meeting early on monday is going to be the first bilateral meeting since the russian leader took office in may and is taking place a challenging times we'll see what they will have to say washington and moscow are accusing each other of still going violence in syria the u.s. says russia provides weapons that assad uses to kill civilians moscow rejects the claim and says it only supplied air defense systems under existing contracts russia

says the u.s. contributes to the violence in syria by ordinary arms supplies to the rebels we know that saudi arabia and qatar. actively supplying weapons to syrian armed opposition groups washington is said to coordinate their efforts moscow believes those are actions that undermine kofi annan six point peace plan which calls for end of violence on all sides and dialogue both russia and the us agreed on the kofi annan peace plan which was designed to enable the series to choose their own future eventually but they see very differently on how to reach that goal president putin by the way did not attend the g eight summit in the us in may he sent the prime minister it was a signal to some that the g. twenty is now seen as a better platform for talks because it's more inclusive you have china india and other global players who also get to have a say on global affairs. and the un has a man and women children the elderly and injured to be evacuated from syrian combat zones following the suspension of its observer mission heavy fighting continues in

towns across syria with scores of people being killed in clashes between the opposition and government troops on sunday activists say regime forces tried to root out rebels from urban areas by heavy shelling in the central city of holmes they also say that in the town of duma just outside the capital damascus rebels opened fire on a bus of soldiers killing eight. the u.s. is now consulting its allies on want to do about the escalation of violence but has acknowledged a libya style intervention to topple the assad government would be difficult are just more in a fortnight has more on the fact an absence of four understanding is having on western decisions. as the syrian crisis becomes ever more brutal by the day. oh critics say that key players trying to resolve the conflict have been raising more questions than answers unfortunately what we are seeing is words that are who

are really. the participants in one side of this conflict and that's very very dangerous because of the. when you hear only one side of the information your conclusion is always in their favor there were the massacres committed and close range of over one hundred people a vast majority of them women and children some killed by heavy weapons the other killed it seems by every indication by the should be a militias acting on behalf of the government western leaders were quick to blame the assad government for last month's full a massacre even when their own media didn't draw the same conclusion b.b.c. world news editor john williams was in syria he reported quote the details of exactly who carried out the attacks how and why were still unclear yet the old line of blame damascus was still being shouted the reason that the situation on the crisis become so good and that there is now a space for these good elements to come in and cause mayhem in syria is because the

syrian government has failed to live up to its commitments under the and i am plan its commitments to the international community as britain's school that the assad government for bypassing the peace plan the free syrian army was planning a bypass of its own demanding that joint special envoy kofi annan should quote issue a declaration announcing the failure of this plan unquote freeing the opposition to carry out military operation against the government so i'm sitting down but i did it deliberately meanwhile channel four journalist alex thompson claimed syrian rebels deliberately let him into a death trap to be killed by government forces according to thompson's account one rebel said. the damascus then comes the washington divide over who is aiding damascus one voice says we have confronted the russians about stopping their continued arms shipments to to syria and we are concerned about the latest

information we have that there are attack helicopters on the way from russia. syria while another says the opposite i have not seen reporting that indicates. that the russians are providing attack helicopters to the syrians i have just not seen that the us flip flop on brusha coincided with the un's fancy footwork regarding the state of syria the united nations for the first time saw a u.n. official describe the situation in syria as a civil war in an interview with reuters u.n. under-secretary general for peacekeeping operations are they let's sue confirmed that the syrian crisis could be characterized as a civil war i declaration countered by the un the next day well i think it's clear that it's not for us to determine or formally. characterize the nature of the conflict in syria a conflict that many say isn't just black and white but illustrates many shades of

grey following sixteen months of conflict the united nations is leading efforts to stop the violence in syria however the information war taking place outside the country may prove to be the biggest barrier to the elusive goal of fully understanding and solving the problem marina port nine artsy new york. well some make attempts to help stop the bloodshed in the country others are putting together a step by step plan for military intervention as we reported at r.t. dot com a delegation from the syrian opposition is free for talking targets and weapons with u.s. officials on the breast continues throughout the nation. also online today outgoing the world bank chief predicts a dire future for developing nations if you are doesn't watch it step more about it on our website.

ballots are being counted in egypt after voters hit the polls to elect the country's first president since former leader hosni mubarak was forced from office last year the muslim brotherhood is claiming the lead based on a count from ninety percent of polling stations supporters of rival candidates. refuse to acknowledge the claim the muslim brotherhood has already announced it will return to the streets in protest if it is not deemed the winner official results will be announced on thursday egypt's ruling military government issued an interim constitution just after the polls closed stating it will be the country's lawmakers and determine who writes the new constitution artie's policy your is in cairo for us. talking to demonstrators as well as talking to those who actually

turned out to cast their ballot the general mood is that most people feel that this is really a choice that is not a choice you have much a freak who represents the mubarak era and you have dr mohamed morsi who represents the muslim brotherhood and the idea of to egypt into an islamist state visit to the polling stations i did get a sense that people there were very tired of this whole election process at the same time those that i've been talking to say that they are not that enthusiastic that everything will go ahead without any kind of mishaps there were the usual complaints something diction forward we heard some reports of disappearing and of ballots cards having been pre-marked but the election committee on the whole did say that there was no widescale forward and it was confident that these elections had been free and more and more interruptions feel that the military is retaining its hold on power the army has promised to come the first of july it will hand over

the reins of power to a civilian government that indeed whether it does this will not talking to egypt since they feel that the army will continue to pull the strings from a far now on. sunday was the announcement that the ruling military council had issued an interim constitutional declaration that formally gave the general's legislative power we understand that this declaration will give an understanding in terms of what powers the new president will have and it will also give the generals the final say on the process of drafting a new constitution the muslim brotherhood heavily critical of this they say that the military has no right to draft any kind of interim constitutional declaration and so he does not have the right to form an assembly to write a new constitution. reporting there kyra based journalist terrible harm at all they believe people will take to the streets no matter who wins. now we've got

a great divide between the feet supporters of the muslim brotherhood of course dr morsi supporters in both cases and our use there will be protests no one is going to be pleased with the results because the divide is extreme in my opinion if mr shifty wins the elections there will be massive protests and demonstrations and i think a lot of the people whether or not you are muslim brotherhood supporters or revolutionaries or reformers who actually retreat to the streets of the here and actually shout weyerhaeuser revolution gone because you cannot have a remnant of the expert. into this new wave of transition but in the case that the muslim brotherhood candidate dr morsi wins there will be a lot of depressed revolutionaries and anti muslim brotherhood supporters will feel that egypt now is now in you know embarking on and on

a different level of idiology which will actually take place if dr morsi wins now the latest installment of julian assange just talk show is just a day away now this time he interviews imran khan a pakistani anti-corruption activist and politician known by some as a one man party here's a preview. i wanted everyone when i was bored in the election that this election as it is is going to be a disaster for the people of us that it's only meant for the good the bush administration to have one who. was struggling so you would like to go there wounded in the government so they could pursue this war dead or without a lot of it was going on. and saw that. whatever it was a good option went to the roof the war on terror was has been devastated by this. because for two thousand and one is the beginning of what we have nothing to do

with basically our own army getting on with them and their kid then doing suicide attacks on the us that is evidence but how would you reconfigure the pakistan relationship with the united states were due to be a complete sever and see what would you do would permit drone strikes what kind of intelligence cooperation what would you do in practice. it should be used to discuss this. so it should be. with us as we didn't do it should. last for lucia to anyone who was there but us that is a. big. deal of it is it and it's still a good solution to that is feed it's low due to the. noise it delivered to the roots. now take

a look at some other stories from around the world at least sixteen people have been killed in multiple lasted three churches in nigeria the attacks triggered riots in the area which led to the deaths of around twenty others authorities in the state of could do want to have imposed a twenty four hour curfew as soldiers and police try to restore order no one has claimed responsibility for the attacks but blame is being placed on the radical islamist group boko haram. french socialist have won a majority of seats in the country's parliament election results give president francois hollande the power to pass his promised growth boosting measures along to raise taxes for the country's highest earners instead of cutting budgets to tackle europe's financial crisis it's the first time socialists have taken control of parliament in ten years. five palestinians civilians have been injured in an israeli air strike on a small factory in the south of the gaza strip

a second attack was carried out in the city of gaza targeting a hamas military training center of earlier in the day a border skirmish broke out between israeli and palestinian soldiers but there were no injuries. ok we're now crossing to the world of business for a change to see what's happening there and of course we want to know the market reaction to the situation in greece so how are the investors reacting is it a thumbs up or down from them it is very much a thumbs up right now they've got what they wanted we know there's been a lot of anxiety leading up to the election we seem to mulch of us action from investors across the globe and now it's like greece is set to pro with governments and investors are demonstrating that right now we've also got the g. twenty leaders meeting today as well we know the euro zone is set to be top on the agenda so let's see how the asian markets are responding right now in the first balls that's right because they've got the nikkei one point. one point six percent

in a positive territory as i say it's all about greece as far as i use it is going on right now it's looking good i also wanted to mention the fact that domestically china's high and sells fell in a record fifty four out of seventy cities and that's because the government is really trying to intervene to take the heat out of the housing sector say to be if we look at the u.s. markets that. see how wall street finished up on friday i didn't tell you that right now futures are pointing upward from all the eurozone observation that we're getting right now but this is all good street was looking on friday it was nine tenths of a step for the dow jones for the nasdaq one the third of mr hill to miss the most because they were speculating a lot of the global central banks were going to intervene we had the bank of england injecting around one point five billion dollars into the system there was also talk from. the central bank president he was saying that they may intervene in case the market is demonstrate a little bit of reaction this week that was once what and the rest is saying well

if you get let's have a look at russia and say that the markets are set so i bet less than two i was so i would go turns is well to look out and that is indeed the russian market that we've got so we had gave us very much he's got that the artists will still get to know on the my sets around two a quarter of a percent we'll look at the exchange rates then we'll be able to see if you guys are going to lose any time say the ruble is indeed managing to gain a little bit a struggle though it's had a real tricky pee-wee been pulling out because if you see the euro dollar why that is one twenty sticks of food seems to raise now its strongest level and almost a month to the only year is the news i'm talking about the so just all talking about the economy and economy because this is certainly one. is. going to sell state assets in streamline government spending as part of the so-called growth to create a public ten billion your eyes will be sold and across

a month to slash the call just debts which is one hundred twenty percent of g.d.p. paid now the government has also approved measures to boost consumer confidence crippled by the tax allows an all star sea packages. so if they were very much be in the limelight this week as well as we go they have got the oil prices actually actually cool i mean right now but let me just tell you the prices. confirmed there is a philip fifty. is now i read just on the circuit next to the russian companies that see thirty by thirteen he says it's russia's full largest oil company and that's because of the ruble price says all right i also want to talk about the fact that last we have loads of downgrades in the euro so we had cyprus bad neverland's as well but we've had comments from richard hans about he's on the most database to the rating agency russell great think and he says that the banking industry here in russia is undervalued have a lesson. if you look at the average rate things of russian banks

by the big three. very to a level a credit level on average but corresponds to a default way sure about one in four are true before the ratio is about one in four to how much not great but it's not one in five three times but that means that the cost of borrowing of the russian banks the more expensive which means the general russian bonds of course less for the investor and they've cost more for the boer war and that means that russian brides have been discriminated against in the international market. markets for now mary and i'll be back in about fifteen minutes all right absolutely katie thanks very much indeed looking forward to more in next hour and of course when russian markets open but there will be later in the

program now in a few moments we'll look at this hour's headlines so stay with us. to the. real vote go to war lords will give him a note so we have a lot of illegal call groups of the called citizens. also argues in the

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