trying to see. the leaders of russia and the u.s. meet at the g. twenty summit in mexico to mull over some rather divisive issues. present within them president obama outlined common ground on syria and pledged to continue dialogue on washington's controversial european missile shield all the details just ahead. also at the summit of world leaders who raised the alarm over a lack of progress in dealing with the eurozone debt crisis which they say threatens to bring the global economy crashing down. and nuclear power and everyone stands firm on its right to a peaceful as a western officials try to pressure the country into submission during ongoing talks here in moscow.

it is a pleasure to have you with us here on r t today role research and life in moscow presidents of lot of me putin and barack obama have pledged commitment to solving syria diplomatically and helping to prevent a civil war and the deadlock in the middle east was just one issue the two heads discussed on the sidelines of the g. twenty summit ongoing in mexico a report enough. correspondent guy nature can. the meeting of the two leaders lasted around two hours and that's a lot for a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of a summit the range of issues on their table was huge the leaders came up with a joint statement on syria they both agree that syrian people should decide their own fate then that a political not military process is needed to prevent a civil war that's what russia has been saying all along as was pointed out by

president clinton he sought common grounds in their approach on syria it might sound surprising to many because the rather break so far between russia and the u.s. has been very tense on syria with the two countries accusing each other of stoking violence there on iran's leaders came up with a very general statement to and that is that iran should provide maximum transparency on its nuclear program and abide by the nonproliferation treaty there were 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 the u.s. refuses to give those guarantees and arguably the elections coming up in the u.s. moscow and washington will be able to move forward on not much all of the leaders said this monday was that they're going to continue the dialogue another issue very controversial there are attempts in congress to pass a new respecting law against russia that would be tied to human rights travel ban

and financial sanctions against those russian officials and the u.s. congress deems as involved in human rights violation of the so-called smoking ischia law the leaders did not comment on that pending legislation but russian officials say if passed by the congress it would trigger a series of pitched footpad moves because there is a potentially long list of american officials who could be punished for taking part in human rights violations in secret prisons in iraq and afghanistan and guantanamo on the sidelines of the g twenty summit which would set up to tackle global economic challenges the group of the world's most powerful. oh emerging economies that is brazil russia india china south africa had a separate meeting they're pushing for a multilateral world updating old institutions like the i.m.f. like the world bank which are heavily dominated by the u.s. and europe they want to play a bigger role in the decision making with those organizations at this summit they are announcing an additional contribution to the i.m.f. money that could be channeled to europe if the prices there spread it's very much

clear to everyone that markets are now being an engine of the global economy. back on a check on that reporting twenty summit ongoing in mexico when i mean time a former member of the reagan administration says no matter what obama tells putin in person the u.s. president has just one link in a long chain of foreign policy makers. i'm convinced that. it does not will conflicts with washington he wants to resolve the issue of the missile bases that are surrounding all russia he doesn't want conflict and obama. he doesn't want any conflict either but he is just one member of a government that regime change and syria in a bomber is not exactly in a position to be able to stop that. she will do really care to get along

with scruton but he still has to represent the agenda. world. and regime change in. the situation our very own results. well at the g twenty itself world leaders have a voice to their concern over the eurozone crisis are calling it quote the single biggest threat to the world economy many have said the progress has been way too slow in dealing with the situation this comes after sunday's elections in greece failed to produce an outright winner again to form a new government the pro bailout new democracy party won almost thirty percent of the votes and is now urgently seeking to form a coalition a new government will have a mammoth task ahead especially as the german chancellor angela merkel said they will be no changes in the austerity cuts that are part of the greek bailout but some experts believe even if a deal is reached between the parties the chances of a greek recovery are almost nonexistent. i think it is quite possible that you will

find a coalition within the next few days but there are two things that are important to note here the first one is that the parties in question new democracy and pasok they only have the majority in parliament due to the peculiar greek election rules in fact more than fifty percent of forwards vent to e.u. critical parties so i think you might want to find a product correlation before you want some true legitimacy to the decisions that will be made that such as you might have some difficult negotiations but more importantly none of the two clocks in the greek parliamentary election had a credible plan for turning the greek economy around from its current meltdown so regardless of who takes all the risk of a greek exit from the euro remains high either there will be a renegotiation off the treaty or rispoli eventually have to leave the euro and the problem here is that if economic circumstances are allowed. to deteriorate any further now everybody can see already today that austerity is killing greece it's

also killing spain portugal ireland and other european economies if you leave that to fester for too long it won't be a deliberative political decision when greece leaves it will be forced by economic circumstances so i think germany will have to back off from this one of face a responsibility of some kind of europe break up before too many months have passed and a later this hour here on r.t. we report on another e.u. country still struggling with its economic woes despite having already been through a financial lifeline hopes and dreams are turning sour as a cash strapped island is left with hundreds of thousands of abandoned development software construction boom was hit by the crisis. and egypt's ruling a military says it will cede power to the new president but later we hear from an expert who claims the country's leader will be nothing more than a puppet on a string. this is r.t. a second day of intense talks between six world powers and iran underway now here

in moscow with the controversial atom still splitting the sides tehran wants the right to enrich uranium to a higher level or at least we're see for such materials from abroad our correspondent catherine off has the latest. officials have been rather tight lipped but the mood is tense as this really is the last chance some officials say to salvage a diplomatic solution to a deal on iran's nuclear ambitions and to avert a possible new war in the middle east now according to a spokesman for the e.u. foreign policy chief catherine ashton western diplomats are essentially sticking to a proposal that they put forth at last month's negotiations in baghdad that deal would have iran halting richmond's of your radium up to twenty percent that figure is significant because it puts the rainy and uranium on the cusp of weapons grade material of course iran insists that his program is for civilian purposes and energy purposes only and that deal would also require tehran to ship at least part

of its twenty percent enriched stockpile out of the country and also halt operations at its controversial underground enrichment facility called fordo also one of the the developments that we've heard from officials yesterday is that the european union will not stop or postpone the impending oil embargo on a rainy and oil that is set to take place in less than two weeks that of course was one of the negotiating points of the iranians were hoping that the west would a budge on iran meanwhile is sticking to its demand saying that no progress will be made unless the west acknowledges its right to a peaceful nuclear energy program for civilian purposes the iranians were also again hoping that the west with eased some sanctions in order to alleviate its struggling economy we also have to keep in mind that american banking sanctions are set to take place but in exchange for the plan that the west has put forth all they're offering to iran is essentially some of the research material for

a medical reactor and spare parts for iran's commercial airliner fleet according to one former renia negotiator that is diamonds for peanuts in other words not a balanced deal and not enough incentive for iran to make such that significant concessions the israelis have threatened to effectively bomb iran. if there is no diplomatic solution to this problem we saw the israeli president yesterday in an interview say that time is running out for iran warning again that a war would be possible if the talks do not play out to its satisfaction the other consideration here of course is that president barack obama is under a very serious pressure by nearly half of the senate to essentially abandon diplomacy if talks don't end up in a breakthrough and to consider the military option but again we do it to remember that we are in a time of a severe economic crisis and the war option is probably the last last result so not going to help president obama's reelection campaign and it certainly isn't going to

help a europe that is struggling to recover economically so it remains to be seen what will come out but we will keep you posted on all of the updates and that was. reporting the syrian government claims that rebels are obstructing the efforts to evacuate civilians trapped in the central city of homs the arab league is calling for a peacekeeping force in the country pointing out that the current u.n. peace plan cannot hold the violence between government troops on the opposition to continue nationwide. seventy nine civilians soldiers and rebels have been killed since the un observers suspended their mission and three days ago russia has reportedly been preparing to send ships and marines to its naval base in syria to protect people and remove equipment in case of an ongoing conflict in case that escalates the red cross believes up to a million and a half people are now in desperate need of humanitarian help. who is in damascus for us reports on how the media is turning into yet another tool of war sometimes

just as dangerous as a rifle. we even use maces hears that the syrian army is shown in residential areas and homes. while watch is another channel and he learns that the rebels are using civilians as a human shield while the army attacks this stronghold. when did the reserve or the two neighbors from damascus who believe it was completely different versions of what's going on in the country and who is responsible the media has an enormous influence on people's perceptions. french investigative journalist i may so believes it can be and is being used as a weapon in the syrian conflict he accuses western countries of preparing a media terror attack on the syrian government involved in sophisticated staged events all designed to force regime change. to the majority of syrians are not

against assad but if they see the pictures of the regime down the president fleeing the rebels taking over the presidential palace it will demoralize people and even assad supporters will stop resisting and give up and this is how t.v. works people believe it even before they think whether it could be true or not. in any other arab spring country libya via evil leaves that qatar based channel al jazeera broadcast pictures from tripoli central green square showing rebels celebrate in the regime's fall days before they actually entered the city and move he claims help the rebels to advance after we can get off his followers in syria the journalist warns things may go much further. for they will not only use their own channels to send this message they will replace syrian satellite channels with their own with the same logos and same design they had of the broadcasting company that provides r.t. with live pictures from damascus says such

a swap is technically possible but he doubts people with fall for it how do. they know syrian present isn't reporters and if they say it's different they'll understand immediately something is wrong so no way they'll believe are. perfect lot and now the investigative journalist from damascus has spent the last ten months exposing what he thinks is proof of foreign media medlin in syrian events and the international media discredited themselves over it in the in too many cases drawing their interest biased no one believes them people used to but no longer trust. crew first of the mace three suitcase when the b.b.c. used pictures showing dead bodies in iraq to illustrate serious controversial houla massacre those responsible later apologized and removed the misleading images misinformation and propaganda are common themes in any conflict syria is already the subject of mixed media coverage with the use of wrong pictures and footage that

cannot be independently verified but one of information many people ation is very hard to explain its impact such as international condemnation and calls for military foreign intervention is impossible to ignore. rafer notion of damascus syria. mind you can always have much more news and videos are available for you twenty four seven on our website r.t. dot com that's our have a look and see what are waiting for you there right now reports uncover a fukushima style disaster but a verted in the nick of time at a nuclear plant in california are those details online for you also. the green. meter a baby robot created by scientists to further explore how exactly children learn to speak. the world update is coming your way soon for other

members of egypt's muslim brotherhood are expected to demonstrate against an interim constitution put in place by the country's ruling military council the constitution dissolves egypt's islamist dominated parliament by giving full legislative power to the ruling generals they've since promised to hand control to the new president by the end of the month but the amendments will strip the winner of almost all powers official election results are not expected until thursday but the muslim brotherhood has already claimed an early victory supporters of the islamist party gathered in therea square to celebrate the announcement made by party leader mohamed more. the claims though being rejected by rival contender akhmed shafique who accuses the muslim brotherhood of trying to usurp the presidency middle east analyst and public speaker on international affairs the says the winning candidate will be nothing more than a puppet for the military. because of political dealings during the first

round we ended up with two unqualified candidates the fact is that close to seventy percent of the egyptian electorate did not take part in these elections in the in the runoff is a huge indication where the majority of the egyptian people stand and how do you perceive both candidates the military council has clearly done what many observers have described as a soft coup based on the ruling from the supreme constitutional court to dismantle the parliament and based on the amendments to the constitutional declaration that came during the second round of elections the defacto ruler in egypt is the supreme council and it shall be for the years to come it have made the coming president regardless whether it's the muslim brotherhood candidate or the

establishment candidate will be nothing short of a hand puppet for the military are before we get to katie with the business let's start with iraq for the r.t. world update us where a suicide blast has killed at least fifteen at a shia funeral there forty others wounded in the attack which happened in a town just north of baghdad the bomber detonated his explosive belt in a tent where mourners were gathering to pay respects to a tribal chief a wave of bombings targeting shia muslims are swept through the country since the beginning of june leaving at least more than an hour one hundred and thirty people dead. three officers have died. in afghanistan after militants attacked a police checkpoint in the city of kandahar it sparked a gun battle between officers and insurgents which lasted well over an hour six others were wounded in the attack it comes just one day after three gunmen wearing afghan police uniforms killed a nato service member in the same region. a second israeli airstrike in

a matter of hours has killed two palestinians in the gaza strip pushing the overall death toll to four the attacks which hit the town of beit hanun have been confirmed now by the israeli military strikes came just hours after gunmen killed an israeli civilian and a construction worker on the israeli egyptian border tel aviv insists the attacks were not retaliation. and pakistan's supreme court has disqualified prime minister yousaf it was likely loni from holding office the decision immediately puts an end to his role and prohibits him from parliament and comes in just two months after he was convicted of contempt for refusing to ask swiss authorities to reopen corruption cases against the country's president stands head of state has now been ordered to take steps to elect a new premier. well during the boom years ireland's construction industry reached new heights but it seems they were building a house of cards that would come crashing down when the economy finally tumbles

it's now left whole ghost neighborhoods in a number of the country's cities with few show when anyone can breathe life back into them as artie's laura smith reports. there's a new word in ireland no but it's when properties repossessed by the national asset management agency as it owners go bankrupt during the celtic tiger boom banks handed out cash to property developers like monopoly money now ireland's littered with ghost estates homes and shopping centers that nobody wants this is a classic example of the death of the celtic tiger in this small town north of dublin the plan was to move the entire town center to this location shops and apartments were starting to be constructed and then four years ago the crash and the site has been like this unfinished on lived in ever since jimmy gilmore has seen the boom and bust first hand

a pub owner in later down outside dublin his sleepy hamlet exploded from three thousand residents ten years ago to eighteen thousand now but the housing stock grew even more creating a situation jimmy says epitomises what's gone wrong in ireland. that's sort of sums up where we are in this country at the moment we're all suspended waiting for something to happen we don't know can we move forward or when we're going to move forward people round here tell stories of being offered millions of euros by banks for development projects building houses and shopping centers for which there was no market for the problem was that banks here and financial institutions believe they were doing the right thing so they were basically shoveling money at people who couldn't solve it people were chasing it and building housing that nobody needed between one nine hundred ninety one and two thousand and ten island nearly

a million new houses and surprisingly a recent report says more than three hundred thousand of them now live vacant and that's just the ones that are finished. this is whitefield mother and inside that there are around thirty houses about a third of which remains on occupied to this day on the other side of the raid the developer had planning permission for a further three hundred houses in the end he built the gate post and then nothing more this developer didn't go bankrupt and a representative told us they still plan to finish the estate at some point but locals can't imagine that happening i cannot see any construction taking place in this country next ten years we have an oversupply of everything between houses and retail units. but i honestly do believe that we have hit the bottom meanwhile someone has to pay for all those bad loans incurred mostly by french and german banks and the buck has stopped with the irish taxpayer on the hook the ninety

billion euros in bailouts laura smith r.t. . well it is a good to have you with us here on r.t. today or that latest edition of julian assange is interview show that's coming your way in about eight minutes time he sits down with iran can pakistani anticorruption activist and politician to talk all about the controversial war on terror of course pushed by the u.s. the show will air right here in just a few minutes but do stay with us for that for now though a preview. is that you will. actually want to as well. if you lose that. this is that there is the word this is the. only was known as close to do that it was used by this. race it's

a bull run society then it was. whatever million is used. to use the american civilians. one would already know which is different. instances marilyn's is doing this in the rumor again and expecting a different result story there is no military solution only with political solution . barring the political solution we do need. a good. will start a political. stunt if you understand. the hourly updates are good to see you again though not just a busy day on the markets for investors but also a busy day for you absolutely lost a focus upon broadway in days early my wage packet now we've got third day of gains

for the european markets and that's why i'm going to begin morey because is the real epi center of it all right now of course talks in greece about the new government the leader of the past so party has said that greece will attempt to renegotiate some of the terms attached to its bailout as well as that we have a spanish bond they did meet target so ok we're seeing those broncos surge but they did a man is just sell and that's seen as a achievement right now we've also got the fact that all the sentiments are out wearing a decline in german investment confidence right now and that's why we're here gave the footsie and the doubts of the eight tenth's of a percent of a positive territory of the dozens around a third of a percent also want to mention that we've got the g. twenty summit going on in mexico and leaders are going to be expected to talk about the sovereign debt crisis and ways in which to stem it lots of pressure on german chancellor angela merkel for sure let's get on to the exchange rates and see how

all the sentiments are feeding into the common cause they also want to mention it more to do with spain there's been some fresh data come out from the central bank showing this damaged. this was sitting on the highest level of bad loans in eighteen years so right that we thought it gaining so it's demonstrating some resilience right now one twenty six eighteen for the ruble though it's still managing to lose out against the bosco cars is the us dollar in this session if we move on to the russian markets we see as well they remain unconvinced and there's still a mixed picture that ok we'll move on we'll have a look at those stocks embassies and movers and shakers and this plenty of them we've got spat right there just nine basis points in negative territory ross hydros well nearly five percent down there there's been some reports that ross hydro is going to get involved with nesta gas is some kind of deal going on they're going to be getting a stake in the company we're going to be watching the progress there also soon after asked as well the motoring company just here they've unveiled their

production of their new vehicle called this town amero this have a look at how asia finish up earlier on and it was a challenge and safer than a carrot and they all star around three quarters of a percent in negative territory that was much to do with the fact exporters were dealing with a stronger currency and that was affecting companies such as panasonic canada to shave all those big tech companies that really rely upon the for their sales to hang a sign their six basis points down in hong kong we also had as far as china is concerned we have the commerce minister saying that if the eurozone gets their house in order than the chinese economy will be expected to go ten percent this year let's have a look at those oil prices because i do believe they are declining and that's for a second day they mix this up if we look at the prices they do indeed remain alive all right then let's talk about the world's fastest growing economies than otherwise known as bricks i having crazed the contributions of the i.m.f.

the decision was agreed other groups informal meeting ahead of the opening of the g twenty summit in mexico the countries will provide the funds with an additional. the seventy five billion dollars and ten bit in a box will come from russia this will help we either have to significantly increase its lending power to protect the global economy from the european debt all right will remain a cause of a show be in the hot seat fifty minutes are broken enjoy the rest of your day katie thanks. and just a moment of the headlines and backed up power from the latest program from the world's number one whistle blower of course and julian a song exclusively right here on our take.

to day children play war in the old case me. but in june nine hundred forty one these walls were the first barrier from another troops on their way to moscow. sunders umbrellas were dying one by one under siege this. morning. in the last shelter an unnamed soldier left a few simple words.