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forming a probe government in struggling greece and stunning violence in war torn syria in focus of the g. twenty. and on the margins of the summit president clinton is meeting president obama to talk syria and more more details from the summit of the world's twenty largest economies just ahead. also this hollow victory and islam is kind of the egypt's presidential poll a win contested by his rival and undermined by the military going to itself legislative power. and with an oil embargo against iran planned for july global players to resolve controversies surrounding iran's nuclear program.
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on screen online this is r.t. with international news and comment line from our new center here in moscow greece's coalition talks which have been pushed to a second day as well as their effect on global finance is taking precedence for the g twenty leaders gathering in mexico but the escalating violence in syria and america's missile defense shield in eastern europe may be in focus at a meeting between president vladimir putin and american counterpart barack obama. in mexico for us. so what can we expect to come out of this meeting. well bill president putin and president obama are meeting for the first time the russian leader took office in may much of the meeting was behind close is going to happen behind closed doors as you would expect but from what we know they are going to discuss syria so far the rhetoric between russia and the u.s.
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has been very tense on that matter moscow and washington accuse each other of still king violence but both russia and the u.s. agree on kofi annan is six point peace plan which was designed to enable the syrians to choose their own future eventually but they see very differently as to how to reach that goal aside from that there are some bilateral issues on the table such as the u.s. missile defense shield in europe russia still has no guarantees that it won't be aimed at russia at some point in the u.s. refuses to give those guarantees and arguably with the elections coming up in the u.s. moscow and washington won't be able to move forward on that but there's a positive agenda as while the u.s. and russia are committed to boosting trade because right now it's a seemingly low russia was admitted into the world trade organization but there's still the jackson invented amendment which imposes restrictions on american companies doing trade was washing the obama administration has made it very clear
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that you know they want to move forward on that one so we're expecting some progress there apart from the trade as you're talking about one of the biggest financial concerns at the moment to the g. twenty that makes you. you know well as far as the main mission of the g. twenty is a group would be you know to calm down the markets basically sunday elections in greece showed an outcome which sort of fierce around the world at least temporarily of its falling out of the eurozone greece's conservative pro austerity party won the election because the majority of you know they do want to stay in the euro zone but they still have to form a pro bailout coalition it's a very painful process for the greeks. the conditions of those bailouts but the fears that the country could fall out of the euro zone made investors very nervous about how their financially shaky economy is in the zone italy spain portugal their borrowing costs are growing and the fear is that they'll be constantly seeking
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international bailout and europe will be trapped in a vicious circle what became very clear after the financial crisis of two thousand and eight is that the world has become so interconnected that a crisis in one country can send shock waves throughout the world that well it's good about the g. twenty is that you have all major global players in one place you have advanced economies and powerful emerging markets china brazil russia india and they you know they tackle not only now making issues although the g twenty got together for the first time to rescue the world from the credit crisis in two thousand and eight the brics group that is brazil russia china and south africa had a separate meeting there pushing for a multilateral world for dating all the institutions like the i.m.f. . which are heavily dominated by the u.s. and europe whereas it's the emerging markets and now which are the engine of the global economy the great also tend to have a similar stance on global security issues like syria where they're against foreign interference or iran's where they believe negotiations rather than sanctions can
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seal a deal on its nuclear program yes it's definitely not just the hot the economy and the russian president by the way his step the g eight summit earlier in may he sent the prime minister and his article came out today about the challenges of the global economy was clear from the article that he sees the g. twenty as a more inclusive platform for talk maybe not as a little bit as some of the other you know smaller summits. going to thank you very much indeed for that live update there in mexico and he's going to come let's talk to freeman he's from the executive intelligence review magazine joining me now live . didn't go to the g eight summit. as we've just been reminded by going on of course was hosted by the u.s. now we're seeing the two leaders finally meeting behind closed doors for the first time in their presidential roles can we expect any changes in u.s. russian relations at the moment do you think in the future. well i think one thing
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that may happen is that president putin may give some very strong direct communication to president obama. maybe who read him the riot act i don't know but the conditions that the russians and the united states find themselves in now is extremely dangerous the russian government and president putin have made very clear that they're not going to allow any other regime change in syria they're not going to allow this silly doctrine of tony blair who was far too good to protect that we can go in and overthrow governments because we know best and humanitarian intervention and a government of russia and president have been very clear on this government of russia and president putin have been very clear that they do not accept the a.b.m. missile defense as being benign they see it as directly dangerous to their very existence and they've made clear in the past that they will use their own nuclear
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capability preemptively necessary and as you pointed out your previous reporter president putin came out very strong remarks on the global economic crisis and he said that the financial architecture of the world needs to be reformed these issues are fundamental to the very existence of the planet because if the united states directed by people. there are inviting president obama and he's very very close right now to tony blair blair is campaigning for him in the united states as an unofficial advisor if these policies to attack the sovereignty of russia continue to escalate in the russian government will have to respond and you could going to do ok and i suspect that the president putin will make this very clear to president obama do you think then we'll see any breakthroughs on those important issues you mentioned syria and the anti missile defense system particularly now we're seeing
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a bomber in build up to his presidential election. well you know there's a huge scandal in united states right now there's several but one of which is that president obama's own national security chief leaked the information about president obama's maniacal kill policy drone kill policy and cyber attacks on iran and one of the reasons that leak took place was to build up president obama as a strong defender of democracy and freedom and a tough guy for the election now this is backfiring right now because these people in the democrat and republican party who see these leaks is very dangerous the reason i bring that up is because obama does not have a real policy he doesn't have a policy to develop the middle east he doesn't have a policy to work with russia russia put forth some very far advanced proposals for development of space and science and obama has rejected them if president putin i
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remain strong and his commitment as he has so far this could punch a hole in the persona of obama and this could actually deflate obama and course him to act differently over the course the next four months because he's not used to be given straight talk and i think president putin may do that. thank you very much indeed for your insight on this lawrence freeman from the executive intelligence review magazine joining me live there in washington d.c. this is r.t. live here in moscow still ahead for you this hour decision time with the u.n. trying to lead efforts to end the syrian crisis a separate war of unconfirmed reports some wild allegations hot stuff. and also fan of america's so-called war on terror is angry in the people of pakistan and julian assange and his latest interview this tuesday on r.t. . egyptians have had their say in the country's first post mubarak presidential election but there's still no sense of closure the islamist candidate mohamed morsi
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says he's won a claim rejected by his rival former regime official. the final results are expected on thursday but the ruling military is already undermined the vote by issuing a decree that gives it sweeping legislative powers. is encouraged. people are beginning to gather into his square just as the muslim brotherhood candidate dr mohamed morsi makes the announcement that he has won these elections and that he is egypt's next president the muslim brotherhood claims that ninety nine percent of votes have been counted and according to their own people who were present at all of the polling stations throughout the country the candidate came in with some thirteen point two million votes this is the equivalent of some fifty one point eight percent and they put the contender after which i think at forty eight percent now is challenging this he says that this is a deceit of the egyptian people and interestingly enough there is an independent television station here in egypt running reports that it is sufi coup is in the
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lead and they quote independent election observers but it is worth noting that last month during those presidential elections being with him brotherhood gave its own results before the official results were announced and those results were completely accurate if morsi comes forward this does paint the scenario for a showdown between the military and the muslim brotherhood because of course fic is the military candidate now the army went so far as to issue an interim constitution it has made itself effectively egypt's nor make has it says that it will be responsible for appointing those people who were draft a final constitution these are important elections but there are a lot of questions that still remain unanswered questions such as what power will this new president have this needs to be debated and outlined in this new constitution and of course the overriding question whether or not the military will hand over powers or promises it will on the first of july and indeed even if it
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does will it continue to control the strings from afar and if yes to what extent. journalists and opposition activists in cairo spoke to a little earlier not he says that people will continue to rise up regardless of who becomes president. with this election and how it was engineered from the first days how it was constructed who was in charge was putting all the woods is basically the supreme council for the armed forces so in the end that evolution is not over yet i mean no devolution ends in a year and a half and certainly not with skaf in power i believe that with the next you know coming months there will be a lot of mobilization there's a lot of the huge expectation on this coming president whether it would be sheffield or whether it be more see the have a lot to answer to and with the limiting powers that they have the basic to be announced and this could be shows that the job is going to be very very tough yes
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when people are won't have the demands met like minimum wage and public health and you know one education and we still have a pile of cash lying around people are not going to be happy and that's not what the sector why so many monsters and spend a year and a half of instability forward basically people want answered and then now we have no answers we have only power play cafe spoiling with you know playing with with the muslim brotherhood but the people are the ones who are out of losing because the they all in india and they need their security they need their bread and they need to live a dignified life to russian on the cross to ready to head to the syrian port of tartus to protect its naval base and citizens there if needed sources from the russian navy are saying the vessels will carry a group of marines to syria. has the details. according to an information from an anonymous source high position source within the russian navy ships of the russian
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black sea fleet all set and ready to head off towards the syrian port where the russian naval base is situated now we understand that those ships stationed right now in the ukrainian crimean the town of where the russian black sea bass is. ready to head off any minute should such an order russian military command the ships mentioned believed to be two warships of the russian black sea fleet able to carry three hundred military personnel each and about three thousand tons of weapons. they've already been many concerns as to why russia is sending two ships with military personnel into conflict zone in syria but clearly all of those concerns have been refuted by some of the people from the russian navy saying that russia has every right to protect its property in syria the naval base and certainly a very important strategic place for russia ever since the collapse of the soviet union russia has lost many naval bases in the world and is one of the few remaining
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which certainly has a very very serious strategic importance for the country the sources within the russian navy have been saying that this potential move has nothing to do with russia supporting the regime selling weapons to syria this is purely about protecting its property and this does not violate any international law and international agreements. and while the u.s. backed away from hillary clinton's remarks that russia was also supplying assad with attack helicopters but reports these accusations doing nothing to help the escalating conflict in syria. 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
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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 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 has 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
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syrian government has failed to live up to its commitments under the u.n. 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. bradford to market 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
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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 brush up 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 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. 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
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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. new york. plenty of other stories and in-depth analysis would have you on our website at the moment dot com online all the time here's a quick look western governments increasingly indulge in online censorship as they also google to remove political content from its services. he said the chinese get close to creating a national manned space station after three astronauts successfully don't quit beijing's. dot com the first day of talks to try and break the long running stalemate over iran's nuclear program is wrapped up here in moscow more negotiations between tehran and the six world powers are planned for choose day as europe and the us prepare to slap the
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toughest sanctions to date on the islamic republic. has the latest. but we've heard from the iranians today as a regeneration of their position that they want an acknowledgement of their right to enrich uranium first the billion nuclear purposes and president mahmoud ahmadinejad seemed to indicate on his website that iran would be willing to halt high level uranium enrichment if the world powers agreed to meet its need for the fuel that the iranians are also hoping that the west will scale back its sanctions which of course significantly hurting our oil exports and the arabian economy but the message from the european union today was that landing in our ago against iranian oil will continue in less than two weeks is a force in addition to american banking sanctions that the west meanwhile is holding tight to its position that it came to in the last months meeting in baghdad where they're demanding the arrhenius halt or rhenium enrichment above twenty or at twenty percent which is close to weapons grade which again iran insists is for
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civilian purposes only and also ship some of that stockpile out of the country and exchange the west would give iran some supplies for its reach research reactor as well as spare parts for its airline or commercial fleet deal that the iranians today have not said a is fair has said it's on balance in the words of one former rainey a negotiator diamonds for peanuts so a difficult situation thus far some countries are indicating this is the last chance for diplomacy before the talk turns to war though we've heard israel threaten again to attack iran should these talks fail the israeli president today in fact said that iran is running out of time and if things continue on its current course war would be the option and we have to keep in mind here that the u.s. president is running a tough reelection campaign and is under some serious pressure from the u.s. congress to consider the military option should there not be a breakthrough in these talks. that in brief in all walled up to the stage of the day of these fifteen people died and forty three did in the attack
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north of the iraqi capital a suicide bomber detonated his. at a sheer funeral in the city of baquba the violence was the latest in a string of assaults on shia muslims in recent weeks with thirty two killed on saturday alone. israeli tank fires killed two people in northern gaza the jewish state says it targeted palestinian rocket launchers israel carried out an air strike on the gaza strip that two men riding a motorcycle dead officials claim the attack was in response to recent sniper fire that was aimed at suspected palestinian militants. a bomb has torn through a bus carrying students in southwestern pakistan killing five people and injuring over fifty police say the expose it was planted in a vehicle parked in a suburb of the city of quetta no group has yet claimed responsibility the air is known for sectarian violence an active militancy. in socialists a valid reforms after the big poll when the country's parliamentary elections results give president francois on hand the power to fulfill his policy promise of
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economic growth instead of belt tightening along pledge to raise taxes for large corporations instead of cutting budgets to tackle europe's financial crisis the first time socialists are taken control of parliament. by the way don't miss the latest edition of in the sun to show on our t.v. this tuesday the world's top whistleblower talks to imran khan a pakistani anti corruption activist and politician known by some as a one man party he explains why he thinks america's war on terror has devastated his country. i wanted everyone when i was working out in the election that this election as it is this is going to be a disaster for the people of us the one it's only meant for the bush administration to have one who. was sure it was struggling so you would like to go they wanted another puppet government so they could pursue this war on terror without a lot of it was going on. and some of that so whatever i was sitting in went
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through the roof the war on terror was has been devastated by the fall of because for two thousand and one because that is a big get in the water we have nothing to do with basically our own army killing on people and then good then doing suicide attacks on the folks that is evidence but how would you reconfigure the pakistan relationship with the united states were going to be a complete severance what would you permit drone strikes what kind of intelligence cooperation but what would you do in practice. have a better relationship based on the dignity self-respect. there . is a. big. that
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is. it's not. just delivered. and you can watch the latest from john in the sand here on r.t. this tuesday at eleven thirty g.m.t. the twenty five minutes here in the russian capital to get the latest from the world of business news marina last you promise to tell us about some new economic data that's just come out of the u.s. which is boosting investor confidence so tell us what that is yes well aside from greece which i've already said a lot of investors are happy about the fact that the pro bailout parties were the ones that won the majority of the votes which means not necessarily means there are more hope so greece will not exit the euro zone but other than that as i said we have an end x. that shows that there's more optimism among us home builders in fact i'm talking about the national association of home builders was fargo and the latest reading shows an increase for the month of june and it's the highest since may two thousand and seven so of course if you take a look at the latest numbers from the u.s.
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forces have provided an interesting boost when it comes to the nasdaq and the dow has now slipped back and surpassed the territory just in the last of course other factors besides produce we have that spanish borrowing costs are going higher but on the your error highs and that's of course across the board is not helping the investor so so far we've seen a mixed picture but as i said the dow has managed to slip back into positive territory just last for sort of what happened next hour now moving on to europe markets are closed now everyone was focused on greece spot then reality said what i mean by reality is the fact that just because the problem here. party of war in the parliamentary election in ways that doesn't necessarily mean that greece will not exit the eurozone and also the fact that uncertainty remains there hasn't of action taken from policymakers yet and this is what investors realize that nothing has changed per se and also we've been speaking to peter weston from at's an investment
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company here in russia and he outlined his vision about the current situation in the euro zone. if the beautiful morning. of a government very quickly that would add some more relief to the market however the overall situation in europe seems to be far from from from over we have a spanish bond yields today rising above seven percent for the first time the tally in bond yields went above ten above six percent again so overall the this situation on the on the situation in europe are still very much alive and investors are concerned. and the current sees the euro is now reversing the earlier gains against the dollar dropping as i can see the ruble. and against both major currencies the close of picture for the day moving on to the russian a market still remains optimistic throughout the day and close like that as well as . with my six percent for size that's the include prices of those
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prices are heading now for a fifteen month low. oil prices are headed for a fifteen month low as i said you can see lights we try to three dollars per barrel at. the end of this. fact for now thanks a lot marina could see there you will see in about an hour from now now the headlines are coming up here in just a few minutes. that will then be followed by an in-depth chat with former u.s. senator chris dodd libya syria the g. twenty relations between u.s. and russia all up for discussion here to stay with us for that.
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