russia and the u.s. hope to find common ground despite their polar approaches to ending the syrian bloodshed as foreign minister lavrov made several area of state hillary clinton and st petersburg. debt stricken aid to li and spain crumble under german pressure at the e.u. summit in brussels despite earlier blocking and agreement on measures to promote growth in the struggling blog. plus as egypt braces for fresh protests against military rule we look at the huge psychological toll the eighteen months of unrest have taken on the nation's people.

it is eight am in the russian capital you're watching r t i'm marina joshie welcome to the program how tough talks are on the table for russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov and u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton as they meet in saying that his birth today to discuss syria the two powers are deeply divided on how the crisis in the middle east country should be resolved oh you know across life to lose a coffin of who's in st petersburg for us good morning to you is see you know how do moscow and washington morning disagree on the syrian issue and how can their positions influence the situation in the war torn nation. if the two sides if sergey lavrov and hillary clinton can come to some sort of i'd i positioned tonight in the meeting in st petersburg this really could drastically change the future of international action as a pertains to the syrian crisis the problem is that both sides as you said have fundamentally different approaches to how we need to deal with this the u.s. has been pushing for a. so-called yemeni style transition plan that first and foremost focuses on

getting president bashar al assad out of office out of syria now the russian position has been that you know there's no need to have some sort of a backroom deal by world powers that doesn't include the actual syrians themselves this is a crisis that the country is undergoing syrians in need to get together and find some sort of a transition that works for them the should not be dictated by outside foreign powers the problem is that all of these sort of over these two to dine opposing sides are really going to come head to head tomorrow which is when the emergency talks in geneva are going to be held put together by kofi annan since it is clear that the cease fire has not worked so far if those bridges in opinion cannot be sort of divided after today is going to be really difficult to see how the different sides to come together one thing that we can say is it does really look like most of the powers involved do not want to take this to a war type of scenario the foreign minister sergey lavrov yesterday acknowledged

that the nato member countries don't really have the appetite for another repeat of the libya disaster so diplomacy is really the option that everyone is talking about it's just a matter of whether they're going to be able to agree to something that works for syria itself rather than diplomacy my b.-k. they're in solving this comma but the two nations are also divided over who should be involved in finding a solution to the syrian crisis what more can you tell us valve up. well it's a really interesting sort of situation i mean we you know to one on one hand if you're getting together world powers to sort of discuss the future of syria all of the key regional player should be involved while the u.s. taking position has been no iran at the talks they do not want the iranians to be present the arabians are of course key allies of the syrian government kofi annan himself has said that the iranians must be present at these talks and yet this was a sticking point and as a result iran is not included saudi arabia is. also not included and it really sort

of. brings some questions about whether any sort of agreement is really possible if the key regional players who you know whose daily lives and geopolitical interests depend on what comes out of syria and depend on a stable syria are not involved it's a it's a difficult situation really all right lisa thanks very much indeed for bringing us the very latest i will correspond with the coffin of in st petersburg for us there . in syria itself president assad said in a rare interview that it's his government's duty to terrorists the word the word is often used to describe armed opposition groups and the interview coincided with an escalation of violence in the capital damascus with two blasts going off near syria's main justice complex are just various and often a visit to the side of the attack. right now to see don't think the ocean that happened there and thursday here in the old damascus you can see it loves the image cause an hour taken away and the skin is now been cleaned this is

a public interest. that was still receiving conflicting reports on how many people have been affected sana a syrian news agency is reporting that three people have been injured but it's very hard to confirm it's very hard to get any information about what happened here earlier today even on the ground the ron many police and security people but the u.n. refused to talk and refused to provide any information on the incident the fact that these has happened in the very heart very center of the syrian capital rises questions and concerns over the security situation here in damascus has been under governmental control but now it's been attacked more and more often by rebels and groups this has happened to stay up another type of courage here in damascus the main building of the syrian state tron television syrian news obviously here has been attacked by government size terrorist groups killing at least seven people

. right enough the reporting there turkish anti-aircraft weaponry has been deployed to the border with syria after a prime minister a type error there gone it gave orders to react to any serious threat of the frontier ankara says this comes in response to the recent downing of one of its fighter jets the plane was shot down after entering syrian airspace a week ago turkey insists the fire was hit over international waters and only crossed into syrian territory briefly and by accident jeremy salt was a turkey based professor of middle eastern history and politics says another incident could bring ties between her and damascus to breaking point. one has to see what's happening with the shooting down of the plane is a very significant. in the tension between syria and turkey and the six responded to that by moving. up to the border into syria.

so quite clearly even though it seems that nature doesn't want to intervene in syria because of the danger is what it is trying to do is to bring down the syrian government by just watching the walls which nations from within and also in cities like these who triggered off you know because it's in between the top two countries and i think tradition i mean one can say when it would happen would happen but that's right no. italy and spain have buckled under german pressure after talks in brussels ran into the early morning rome and madrid had initially blocked and on growth and jobs insisting that action on their rising borrowing costs should come first however germany's angela merkel stressed that no short term fixes were on the table or he says are silly reports from brussels the disagreements between leaders still remain. to be frank there's not a lot of optimists here in brussels there are already five euro zone nations that have needed a bailout cyprus being the latest and there is no disagreement really that they

need growth in the euro zone area wherever the way to go forward is the big issue here they're essentially two points of view one is germany's and the others share the other point of view germany does not want to share debt of mutual i's debt in the form of euro bonds until all the others agree to surrender their budgetary controls to greater oversight for brussels in order to instill more discipline while the rest of france for example saying that they will only give up sovereignty to a greater power if germany show solidarity and we know what solidarity means in this sense is sharing their debt so you have two sides the question is who is going to budge first and actually the biggest headache is coming from italy's a mario monti he's really insisting that the euro zone funds by the the bonds of troubled but well intentioned countries and we know that good intentions is not going to work for. a month he says he's going to stay here until he gets a satisfactory result for italy now also a troubled nation well they're calling it

a political union and some bureaucrat's would say it sharing sovereignty but in essence if you will it's a euphemism for what essentially is going through taking the path of a federalist state because surrendering powers of budgetary powers is essentially chipping away at what is at the heart of state powers which is the right to control when and how to spend their own money there are other perspectives here saying that this is not the only way for european integration but we know that at the end of the day it's a power players that make the decision and the most powerful of them is of course germany. has are still reporting there in. the u.k. independence party believes that despite all the disagreements between the e.u. leaders ultimately it's merkel who dictates what gets decided. it is perfectly clear that the brussels machine does dance to the german team and smaller countries are very frightened of going against really in the end what angela merkel says the focus always is on germany you know will merkel blink or not the argument that

somebody should take charge is the argument david cameron keeps putting out it's the argument that says that all the member states of the eurozone should abolish their democracy is should have bullish their independence surrender their birth rights and give it all to a super bureaucrat you know herman van room poit or mr barroso or somebody as incompetent as that and some by some magic formula giving away control of everything to one person will solve everything look the eurozone is a fundamental misconstruction between economies that are so different and economic and monetary union between them was never going to work we will stagger all of this conference i think without much conclusion at all. after the e.u. summit in brussels the german chancellor will want to gauge how her own country has reacted to the latest measures and as artists envoy reports there is growing anger among germans that they are having to bear the brunt of the trouble states. it's

a job interview with geopolitical implications and euro says family has been running these greek restaurant for almost three decades ever since they immigrated to germany hard work and self-reliance made it a success but now they are under increasing pressure to share the fruits of their labor. the problem is that in greece that. they come here and like the money in the street but we're also working very hard. working from the morning till night every day they get a dozen of calls from their greek can patch or its with requests for money jobs of both some like mall attack is just walking in a restaurant owner himself he lost his business last year and ever since has been out of permanent work like about twenty two percent of greeks there is the second world war and they destroy. our country from troops so

they'll be me on. my own. not to help but. while references to the countries nats of past have appeared more than once in the great coverage of the bailout germans remain unswayed in their position to pay for somebody else's debts polls consistently show that the majority of germans are stronger against financing greece's or spain's bailout as one customer of this restaurant put it before placing an order one should check not only the menu but also his wallet despite the broader position the german authorities are still pushing for the permanent bailout fund on thursday i'm going merkel i feel to be in peace to support the proposal as it goes for. incentive i think to date a package for growth and jobs at the center of the debate and i think today it is right so that we can pass it and i will support it for that i have received broad and clear support at home and from the german parliament while the parliamentarians

are widely expected to vote in favor some say this bleed of opinions between the power and the public represents a test of germany's democratic system democracy begins at home begins in the washer begins in. when it begins a new to the and to be fair if a national parliament and this is so that and if there's a common currency this is taking. decisions in terms of money in terms of budget it's a violation of democracy and it was. your historical mission to bring democracy in the road no and very certain about now. is destroying democracy they see peace to be hardworking but in case if europe's most productive country it seems just never stopped coming

in the wake artsy reporting from germany. so i have for you this hour on our t.v. facing a deadline to turn himself over to u.k. police wiki leaks out of terra julian assange says he plans to let it expire but as ecuador still miles over his request for asylum fears of another power coming into play began to surface. us searching for energy independence but coming up short the u.k. seeking out foreign investors to help it to help give it a boost but it's an enterprise that critics say could be putting lives at risk. now the protest mood in egypt doesn't seem to be subsiding despite a long anticipated announcement of the presidential vote results last weekend people again plan to take to the iconic square this friday to demand a complete handover of power from the military to the country's newly elected leader but and made it's a never ending swarm of political demands the psychological stress ordinary

egyptians are constantly on there is often ignored as artist policy or now explores . the pain as rule as it was the date happened was just twenty one years old when he was killed and. the bullet that shattered his heart to punch his family. leaving his mother unable to carry on i don't live in it i talk about him a lot i don't like to say that he's dead i see him in my dreams i'm waiting all the time for him to come home to me i beg god to bring him back. in the last eighteen months each options have gone through one of illusion three elections and countless mass protests the scars left by the unprecedented chaos and bloodshed and political battles run deep i saw people becoming more depressed more anxious using more drugs and alcohol those kinds of things seem to have changed because of the current events and the fear over what was happening next and it's not only those who are directly involved who've been affected in the only survey of its kind. spoke to

ordinary egyptians to see how they're coping she found that sixty percent of egyptians are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder of those forty seven percent have witnessed violence in the streets thirty four percent have stayed up late to watch television news reports of a violent nature and twenty eight percent feel stressed because the financial situation has deteriorated i do believe the public has been trying to use especially since so things are a lot different after the uprisings as we were before and people before used to enjoy a very little crime rate for example very little political change however after the uprisings and there was more crime there is an increase in crime rate which. which traumatized the public i think and the problems compounded because of the stigma attached with seeking help this is only one of a handful of centers in cairo offering psychological assistance to people who need help but while some of those who were of wasted and detained by the authorities

have come here most egyptians have stayed away. but psychological help is the last thing on mona's mind she can hardly scrape together enough money to buy food for her family she gets a little comfort from believing her son died for a cause but even there threatens to be wiped out as the country braces itself for a fresh round of protests as anger against the ruling military mounts policy r t cairo. join us on says he has no plans to hand himself over to police after being summoned for extradition procedures in his interview with the b.b.c. the whistleblower stressed that asylum law both internationally and the massively takes precedence over extradition law that we can take senator has been holed up in ecuador's embassy in london for over a week waiting for the south american state to decide on his bid for political asylum ecuador has been taking its star i'm studying the allegations that is handed over to sweden the sanj could eventually face prosecution in the u.s.

we're espionage can carry a death sentence but sagal admin's founder of the national security whistleblowers coalition says the longer the delay the more chance that with or is coming under pressure from washington. mostly what's happening right now is the political side and you have to realize that they may be and this is the. letters that petitions from activists around the world but on the other hand they are also getting a list of all to made them sent troops from the united states so the rest assured that you right now as we speak the state department is giving the door plenty to think about by showing what kind of consequences they will be facing whether it's the economic will whether it's political and so this is the reason they are taking this long and we are hoping that their decision would be yes they would grant asylum to giuliana signage but considering the weight the united states carries but

also considering that he's three of our nation in terms of the types of measures they take to put pressure on the other governments it will remain to be seen. now this and other stories are always available at r.t. dot com so check out what else we have lined up for you today dad leave you some heavyweight ballerinas for the bolshoi as say choreographed this display for the military. and quit smoking in a shot at new york lab develops a vaccine to help you kick the nicotine habit find out more. facing a possible energy shortfall in the coming years britain is looking for a boost yet with no money to develop nuclear power alone must try and seduce foreign investors but it's a decision that has manny wondering if the u.k. government is putting profits before safety first now explains. britain wants

to keep the light switch done and to do so it says it needs me clear power real to security thing and that has to be security of supply and we don't want to have our security to supply people in turn over twenty three therefore to do that or on the way forward those were. doing ok but we must look for another. energy distribution imagery and that would be nuclear the u.k. might say it wants and she independence but it's clear plans need powering with money and it's money britain doesn't have investment for these plants is sorely lacking french company e.d.f. had been slated to build a number of the new plants but in the wake of the few disaster these plants have been put on hold there were originally for companies that were looking at. working on developing new nuclear power stations in britain but the other two. have both

now pulled out so it's almost as if the government hasn't noticed the writing on the wall that left the u.k. government having to hunt further afield for the much needed cash despite saying they won't let the pendants on outside sources it's countries like japan and china that person's reported to have been touting around for investment and you know in a sense we're kind of offshore project for other countries i mean it seems to me bizarre that the u.k. which is quite a big and supposed to go to country. opening up for investment from other countries because they need desperately to invest in nuclear their own countries don't want to take it so they're going to give it to britain having being one of the first countries to gain new clear britain's power stations are now old with many being decommissioned and with nuclear accounting for around sixteen percent of the country's energy provision the government says if it doesn't get the investment in

the new plants it needs it could face in. and. as early as two thousand and twenty the soda nikkei a plantain broadwell is one of eight sites the u.k. government has identified as being suitable for a new bells but local residents here say that it's far from suitable in a place while the people say that though it's unlikely were a major nuclear disaster to happen here it would be extremely hard to evacuate local communities and their if is that the governments and more concerned with securing investments than securing their safety and there are other concerns too in a bid to attract investment the government's job energy bill indicated that he's willing to build the new plants can seem as high a price is to guarantee healthy profits and it seems the government has left itself alternative sort of sloppy brute. pragmatism is going to happen if nuclear doesn't happen something else will and he's bowing to the government

already because they can get the investment in place. for the nuclear program that they wanted to have in the time that they wanted. despite having once led the way along the nuclear policy poor planning and investment struggles have left britain trailing behind with tapes now pinned on foreign investment that may or may not materialize the future of britain's energy provision is now not looking quite say bright surf city london. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world tens of thousands of high school and college students have clashed with police in chile the group marched through santiago waving banners and flags calling for education reforms officers fired water cannons at protesters after they were hit with rocks and had their police van attacked the government has made some concessions in the wake of recent rallies and

students say the chain just are. former bosnian serb leader radovan card has been acquitted of one of the two genocide charges brought against him at the international hague tribunal the judge dropped the charge because of a lack of evidence but held ten other charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity card ditch is accused of ordering atrocities during the nine hundred ninety s. bosnian war including this robberies a massacre were eight thousand muslims were killed. u.s. democrats were applauding a ruling by the supreme court calling president barack obama's health care legislation constitutional under the controversial law most americans are required to purchase health insurance by twenty fourteen or pay a fine the reforms were opposed by nearly every republican lawmaker claiming it was against the law to force people to buy a private product the courts verdict is seen as a major victory for obama as he's up for reelection in november. now do you have an

opinion to share on obama's health care reform to let us know on our website r t v dot com well right now as you'll see very shortly seventy percent believe it will benefit both the american people and the u.s. economy thirteen percent feel obama is just electioneering and thirty two percent think it's a red herring distracting the nation from a looming economic crisis and a majority that's about thirty eight percent say it's designed for insurers benefit only so do others now what do you think of this issue by logging on to our website r t v dot com. all right straight to the world of business where marina cars is there for us so what's happening today marina well basically it's the last night and day of the quarter and investors are focusing on the crisis somewhat taking place in brussels tell you more about that a little bit later but first let's start with asia which is the only one trading right now as you can see the figures are going higher and then they added

a one percent higher. it's super said in the black and we know that when it comes to hong kong banking stocks are doing particularly well with bank of china adding all one percent enough course there's a general autumn isn't coming fall in the europe let's talk about. we know that at the summit e.u. leaders agreed on a growth package for the euro zone worth about one hundred forty nine billion dollars now they also agreed to use a permanent bailout fund to recapitalize struggling banks and the meeting continues today and talks are expected to focus around entered rated euro zone including the bank in. italy and spain are pushing the block to agree steps to reduce the interest rates the two countries have to pay. continue with the markets we have balls which of course not trading right now so we've seen the closing picture on the thursday as you can see both the dow and the nasdaq and the mild losses and actually they managed to recover the biggest slide all of the day in just the last

half hour of trading and of course other than the optimism coming from the euro zone we also have initial jobless claims which fell by six thousand the for last week let's take a look at the current season so what's happening with the euro dollar ruble the euro is now again and against the u.s. dollar when it comes to the ruble at a loss against both major currencies on thursday we'll give you the updated figures of course when the markets open which is and around two hours from napa let's take a look at the close up picture as we always do in the morning for the russian markets where we so significant losses and that's because russian investors were in that encouraged by this all happened and they yours and of course they closed before we heard more news coming out of the meeting and of course it didn't help either let's take a look at what's happening with crude prices even though yes there was some significant losses now they're actually rebounding from their lowest lows in almost nine months again optimism from the euro zone itself and also we have speculation

that crude. flies will diminish of course that embargo kicks in for iran the next week and as for exhausts the end of the us as well as in the sound arena but all right here brianna thanks very much and deed and in just a few minutes we'll bring you our interview with tunisian foreign minister straight after recap or main stories.

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