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elements from around russia we've got the future covered. russia seeks to break the iranian nuclear standoff by hosting an international conference and moscow all sides are dug in deep with tough sanctions in the air as to iran refuses to relinquish its right to atomic energy. greece grants the euro a stay of execution that's after a pro bailout party takes the lead in parliamentary elections but the debt crisis will still be giving g. twenty leaders a headache as they need in mexico. egyptians are gathering in central cairo and that's a lot of claims and unofficial early lead in the first democratic presidential polls since the ouster of hosni mubarak.
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in the russian capital i'm marina joshie welcome to the program russia seeking to break the long running stalemate over iran's nuclear program as moscow hosts an international conference on the conover shall 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. is a moscow with the latest. all eyes are on moscow as the third round of talks over iran's nuclear ambitions kicks off today right there behind me in the hotel is where the key officials from the five permanent member countries of the u.n. security council plus germany are meeting in order to try to avert a potential collapse in diplomacy over iran's nuclear ambitions the stakes could not possibly be higher as israel has in fact threatened to bomb iran should the
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negotiations fail on top of this we have the confirmed u.s. use of cyber weapons to destroy iran's nuclear program and pressure for the u.s. president barack obama who is of course running a reelection campaign from the congress to consider a very seriously a military solution to this standoff should diplomacy fail now in the background of all this are tough economic sanctions that are looming ahead for tehran one of the things that must be considered here is that there is a lot of pressure by western countries to essentially push iran to not only give up its nuclear ambitions something that iran has refused to do apology and that it has a peaceful civil nuclear program demanding that world powers recognize its right to maintain that civil nuclear program that is not something that the west has been essentially happy to consider thus far they want to a lot of intensive mans on tehran with what tehran says very little incentives in
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return and it remains to be seen whether the west will consider abandoning the impending european union oil embargo as well as the banking sanctions that are looming against the islamic republic so a lot is on the table here whether or not this gets resolved remains to be seen but the stakes are as high as they could possibly be here in moscow and of reporting there now we had agrees as probiotic new 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 now right majority it's a clear repeat of last month's vote after which coalition togs collapsed ranting in the country to go to the polls yet again and as archie's jacob green is now reports the election that was expected to establish greece's future in the euro zone has once again land the country crossroads. places official results showing new democracy out in the lead this new democracy though with
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a problem because even though it looks like they'll win 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 in a 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 past party would like to see some major changes to the bailout deal struck with the i.m.f. the e.u. and eurozone troika 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 the reserve because they have had such a significant sway when it comes to these elections indeed even if they're not part 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 to lollies trying to stop any future austerity deals being made and the reworkings
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of that bailout plan they stand for a cancellation of austerity full stop saying it's been far too costly for the greek nation ready they want to remain within the euro this is being where much talk has centered in the build up to this campaign but those stressing that their conditions for cancellation to austerity would lead to an exit from the euro zone they've always stressed that this be far too costly of the eurozone members which was their car their trump card here is it risk contagion to other countries including the likes of the more vulnerable ones at the moment. portugal. and greece will be among the top issues discussed today in mexico 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 count 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
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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 it here is nations that believe beyond their means some take it too far and the message is they should be more responsible what's interesting the 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
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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 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
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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. now the un has demanded 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
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dumont just outside the capital damascus rebels opened fire on a bus of soldiers killing. the u.s. is now consulting its allies and want to do about the escalation of violence but has acknowledged intervention to topple the assad government will be difficult he's more in a fortnight has more. 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 reports that aren't are really. the participants in one side of this plan slick and that's very very dangerous because of course 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 the vast majority of them women and children some killed by heavy weapons the other killed it seems by every indication by the
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should be a militia is acting on behalf of the government western leaders were quick to blame the assad government for last month's school 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 have 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 un i am plan its commitments to the international community as britain schooled at 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
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carry out military operation against the government now 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 she added it's all part of the democracy 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 to 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
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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 he went under secretary general for peacekeeping operations are they let 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. cartwright's 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 marine upward i r.t. new york. now while some make attempts to help stop the bloodshed in the country
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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 reportedly you talk talking targets and weapons with u.s. officials while unrest continues throughout the nation. also online be outgoing the world bank chief predicts a dire future for developing nations if you are doesn't watch it stand out more about it on our website. watching r.t. live from moscow now ballots are being counted and 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 accounts
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from ninety percent of polling stations egyptians are gathered in the city center as they await result supporters of rival candidate ahmed shafik refused to acknowledge the muslim brotherhood to claim a victory as long as party has already announced it will return to the streets in protest if it's not deemed the winner official results will be announced on thursday and gypsum ruling military government issued an interim constitution just after the polls closed stating it will be the country's lawmakers and the terman who writes the new constitution party supposedly or 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 which a freak represents the mubarak era and you have dr mohamed morsi who represents the muslim brotherhood and the idea of turning inject into an islamist state visiting the polling stations i did get
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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 they were the usual complaints of election fraud we heard some reports of in disappearing and of ballot cards having been pre-marked but the election committee on the whole did say that there was no widescale forward in that was confident that these elections had been free and fair more and more interruptions feel that the military is retaining its hold on power the army has promised to come in the first of july it will hand over the reins of power to a civilian government but indeed whether it does this we're 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 generals the
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legislative power we understand that this declaration gives an understanding in terms of what powers the new president will have and again she could give 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 policy reported there now kyra based journalist sara mohamad ali believes 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 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
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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 rear and actually shout out weyerhaeuser revolution gone because you cannot have a remnant of the x. regime lead us into this new wave of transition but in the case that the muslim brotherhood's 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 on just talk show is just a day away this time he interviews imran khan a pakistani anti-corruption activists and politician known by some as
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a one man party here's a preview. i wonder everyone with those words living the election that this election is the. result of the. ship was. one of the one who should was struggling so you would look good they want to do the good so they. did it with. whatever it was to go into the room the war room was has been devastated by this though because. this is a big one. nothing to do with basically oh no i'm not getting on with. doing suicide notes only focused on civilians how would you reconfigure the. relationship with the united states were to be a complete severance what would you drone strikes what kind of intelligence
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cooperation what would you do in practice. that should be used to discuss this. so it should be a relationship like the us has with it and it should in the. last relationship that anyone was focused on is a higher. being to kill it is it is it still gets to the relationship that is. it's no due to the. noise it delivered to the americans. watching r t let's now take a look at some other stories from around the world at least sixteen people have been killed in the multiple blasts at 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 kaduna have imposed a twenty four hour curfew as soldiers and police try to restore order no one has
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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 the election result give president francois hollande the power to pass his promised growth boosting measures alliance pledge 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 palestinian 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 earlier in the day a border skirmish broke out between israeli and palestinian soldiers but there were no injuries. later today we asked the former u.s. senator chris dodd whether he sees another rock scenario unfolding in libya here's a preview. who's running the place today i mean in
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a sense that's the the dangers in all of these things the you know the devil you know the devil you don't know kind of situation so clearly it was so repressive what was occurring there and libya may have to go through a period here where you don't go if immediate transition from ousting a brutal dictator to a jeffersonian democrat that shows up there are periods here of transition which libya is going through that are painful to watch but i think russia could play a role i know they didn't want to necessarily be involved in supplying military hardware and gauging in the conflict as it was developing but i don't think that ought to now cause you to not find a way to become involved in a constructive way to help that country get on its feet and find its center and give it an opportunity to grow and to provide some decent opportunities for people in that country so the fact that you rejected the idea of being involved in the ouster khadafi ought not to pollute it seems to be now turning around and say we
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didn't do that this is the outcome how can we be constructive and help now get this country back on its feet and stabilize it. and straight to the world of business hello to you katie so what's going on with the stray should agree is how the investors reacting they're reacting really well we're looking at gains at the moment showing their optimism for the result of the weekend there was a lot of was us to what was going to happen right now we do know that greece is set to back those pro austerity governments and that's good news as far as the asian markets are concerned because they aren't gaining there's also lots on the agenda this week we're going to see the greece situation unfold you've also got the g twenty meeting on the code so we'll all still look forward to now if we look at the domestic news in asia as well we'll see that china's home values fell to record fifty four in the seventy cities that was in may so that's helping to boost the momentum as well that's because developers are cutting the prices to boost sales
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and we've got the prices on screen just now in the k. only fourteen shares on that bores are actually losing in the japanese region say the hang time as well they're heading for a two day rise the biggest today rise of the year i should say so it's good news for them optimism in the at if you look at the u.s. markets we'll see how wall street close on friday as you can see it was gains as well there was also optimism that the global central banks are going to intervene to boost them all kids this we e.c.b. president. suggested that the central bank is ready to act to ease that monetary conditions we also have in friday the bank of england intervening veiling these plans to inject one hundred one point five billion dollars into the system if we look at the russian markets is now less than an hour and still we have the head out it is a bit of a choppy session bob they ended on a high on friday if we get over and see what the exchange rates look he might right
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now we see that the ruble managed to gain against the u.s. dollar and the euro despite having a real choice we few weeks even months of full. russian currency the euro dollar gaining on the news coming from the strongest in almost a month that's five days now of gains for the common current state going to talk about italy now because that's the country that's also in the limelight the biggest economy in the euro zone and it says it will sell state assets and streamline government spending as part of the so-called growth to create you know public assets what ten thirty in your eyes will be sold at about a month enough to slash the country's debt which is one hundred and twenty percent of g.d.p. now the government has also approved measures to boost consumer confidence which has been crippled by the tax. parity measures i will have a look at the oil prices that they are indeed they are getting but they're still
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loitering around those fifteen months i want to talk about so that next to guess is well over to school figures prepared to suffer because it's thirteen percent prospects that are weaker it will boost the company's dividend payout so that's the news for the russian oil company also want to talk about the credit ratings that we've had in recent weeks spade so i personally have the neverland as well both as far as russia's because we haven't seen any from the likes of mood is i simply. now are we speaking to richard haynesworth he's really. writing agency ross raising and he said that the banking industry hey it's very much. if you look at the average ratings of russian banks. by the big three agencies who they are at a level a credit level on average but corresponds to a default way sure about one in five are true before the ratio is about one in
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fourteen and that's not great but it's not one in five three times but that means that the cost of borrowing of the russian by the more expensive which means the general russian bonds of course less for the investor and they've cost more for the borrow and that means that russian banks have been discriminated against in the international market. i came next hour marina how the figures for the russian market are reggae thanks very much and in just a few moments we'll take you to the choreo islands here in our team for there are bring you the headlines stay with us. community.
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you certainly can't do it through the barrel of a gun only effective social changes can be the afghans themselves afghan men and women we believe i'm going to spawn because not too across parts. of the patient it's coming up on the shelf and at a construction stop people in the obama administration talking about how much they care about the women of afghanistan it's not true they don't care about the women of afghanistan. will the. money and technology innovation believes developments from the round russia we've gone to the future covered.
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