russia and the u.s. hope to find common ground despite their polar approaches to ending the syrian bloodshed ass foreign minister lavrov is due to meet secretary of state hillary clinton in st petersburg. surprising compromise even leaders make concessions to finally agree on funneling money to struggling banks directly with talks at a brussels summit running well into the night. and julian assange says he's unlikely to a bail london police demand to hand sell van for extradition insisting asylum law takes precedent. which are to live from moscow one pm in the russian capital i'm marina joshie

welcome to the program 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 st petersburg today to discuss syria the two powers are deeply divided on how the crisis in the middle east country should be resolved enough has more from st petersburg. if the two sides if rove and hillary clinton can come to some sort of position to night in the meeting in st petersburg this really could drastically change the future of international action he added working in the syrian crisis the problem is that both sides 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 the 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 this should not be dictated by outside foreign powers the problem is that all of these are sort of over these two the 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 on the instance of this three year that the cease fire has not worked so far 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 uninvolved while the u.s. taking position has been no iran at the talks they do not want their remains to be present the arabians are of course a key ally 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 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. in a reporting there from st petersburg well listen we're bringing us updates from the crucial meeting between russia and the united states on syria due to start later on friday. now in syria itself president bashar assad said in a rare interview that it's his government's duty to annihilate terrorists the interview coincided with an escalation of violence in the capital damascus to add the authorities blame on terrorist groups and the latest incident to blast erupted near a serious main justice complex argues marie ivanovna visit the side shortly after the attack. right now to see don't think that happened there and this is the media in the old damascus as you can see it loves them its cars and our taken away and the sea is now been cleaned this is a public park just. so we still receive in 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 really hard to get any information about what happened here earlier today even on the ground the ron many police and security people with the aim refused to talk and if used to provide any information on the incident the fact that these has happened in the very hard to the very center of the syrian capital rises questions and concerns over the security situation here in damascus has been under government control but now it's been attacked more and more often by rebels and moves this has happened to stay up another type of courage here in damascus the main building on the syrian state run television syria news nobody is so what do you have been attacked by a government sized terrorist group killing at least seven people. we've now been reporting from syria now

a syrian family claims their relatives have been massacred by syrian rebels partido hold of disturbing food edge of the alleged slaughter in the city of hama the video and details of the story are on web site r t v dot com. now it's been a tough night in brussels where e.u. leaders had to make mutual concessions after several hours of bargaining they agreed to use the european bailout funds to funnel money directly to struggling banks a short term fix opposed by the german chancellor angela merkel artists are cilia reports from brussels. now what they did to spend a lot of time talking about was this new growth and jobs pact yet another practice essentially a rolling out one hundred twenty billion euros to help aid the growth of the eurozone nations what's interesting is this is where the conflict had come into the picture spain and italy were refusing to sign the pact until they had gotten the short term fix that they need to calm the markets and bring down their borrowing costs well they did get it in the end seen as

a compromise from germany at this point that is using e.u. funds to recapitalize banks directly rather than giving the money to the government in order to avoid the public deficit from going up that this is particularly relevant to spain at this point however markets did react quickly so they were able to calm the markets whoever the question there is how long are the markets going to be calm another question that we're good looking at is what are the strings attached you know germany was very much opposed to any short term measures until the long term structural reforms that merkel wants have been addressed so what are the details attached to this what are the conditions we still don't know that we have to see that in order to assess how significant this step is and also the growth rate of one hundred twenty billion that is really small compared to the entire euro zone expectations were very low for this summit so this step recapitalizing banks directly from as positive in this sense whatever it is not the solution that addresses the big questions of structural changes in the u.s.

on the fundamental problems to be addressed the leaders here having to go back to their own countries to present these decisions you know aguilar merkel is adamant to get back to germany today because the parliament is going to vote on the european stability mechanism that is a permanent bailout fund that's supposed to be put in place by july two thousand and twelve we're still waiting for ninety percent of years of members to ratify that she needs two thirds of the parliament to agree on that and we know from a survey in germany that about sixty percent of germans want to see a referendum on the german policy. now. leader of the u.k. the panel's party believes that euro zone countries won't be able to deal with their problems until the abana monetary union. look the eurozone is a fundamental misconstruction between economies but also different economic and monetary union between them was never going to work the only way forward for greece spain and portugal and such countries is to recognize that the euro is

a mistake to break away from it to get their own currencies back to have a competitive devaluation and to get their own democracy is about that is the only way forward what we're doing here if we keep propping up the euro we get rid of ways of preserving and reinforcing failure what we're doing is guaranteeing a miserable future not just for the tens of millions of people who falls below the poverty line but actually we play a very heavy social cost for this too in terms of insurrection and violence. i would respond to test our cilia is following all the reaction to the agreements and the e.u. summit in her twitter feed including jokes by the journalist laughter angle marco gave into the demands of italy and spain out of the e.u. summit a german reporter told tessa that his country had lost twice to italy last night well of course he's referring to the european championships i mean file where italy be germany two one securing

a passage to the final so stay with our team for our sports bulletin later in the program for all the details on that match. meantime join us on says he has no plans to hand himself over to police after being summoned for extradition procedures the deadline for his removal to sweden has passed but whistleblower is still holed up in ecuador's embassy in london waiting a decision on his request for political asylum artist laura smith is in london and joins us now live so laurie if you join us on fails to report to police so what's next for him. well the police have issued a statement saying that they have indeed requested the presence at belgravia police station this morning here in london of a forty year old man they won't specify who but we're all assuming that it is judy in essence that he's supposed to present himself there eleven thirty which is in about an hour and a half's time if he doesn't present himself that the police say that he will be in full breach of his bail conditions and he will be liable for

a rest of kools his mere presence in the ecuadorian embassy leaves him in breach of conditions as well which means that he is supposed to stay the night at his registered address because he's been there for some days now in essence himself says that he has no intention of showing up and why would he i mean from his perspective how much more trouble can he be in really he's already libel for arrests he thinks that if he presents himself to sweden then he will go into the u.s. where he will face charges of espionage so really from his perspective how much worse can it get so it's really very unlikely that he shows up at this morning. all right thanks very much indeed for bringing us the life from london. and with ecuador taking its time to the sign of the songes plea for asylum some suggest it might be coming under pressure from washington subtle adman's founder of the national

security was a lower risk coalition explain. mostly what's happening right now is the political side and you have to realize that they may be and this is the ecuador and it may be getting all sorts of letters that petitions from activists around the world but on the other hand they are also getting a list of all to made them send troops from the united states so the rest assured they right now as we speak the state department is giving the ecuador plenty to think about by showing what kind of consequences they will be facing whether it's the canonical whether it's political and so this is the reason they are taking this long and we are hoping that their decision will be yes they would grant asylum to giuliana's lunch but considering their weight the united states carries but also considering the history of our nation in terms of the types of measures they take to put pressure on the other governments it will be remains to be seen.

so i have for this hour here on r.t. as edge of braces for fresh protest against military rule we look at the huge psychological toll that eighteen months of unrest have taken on the nation's people . plus searching for an r.g.b. independence but coming up shore in the u.k. is seeking out foreign investors to help get a boost but it's an enterprise that critics say could be putting lives at risk all that much more in just a few minutes from. cultures that so much different and there's a huge percentage of the burden on the bar when you're a popular uprising the toppling of a tyrant and a parliamentary and presidential election where does egypt stand of the people of egypt binge. did those stores in here

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whose friends don't talk t.v. don't come. the protest mood in egypt doesn't seem to be subsiding despite a long anticipated announcement of the presidential vote results last weekend people gamp lan 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 amid the never ending swarm of political demands the psychological stress or the rejections are constantly under is often ignored as he supposedly are now explores. the pain as war as it was the day it happened was just twenty one years old when he was killed near tahrir square the bullet that shattered his heart tore apart his family leaving his mother unable to carry on i was only in it i talk about him a lot i don't like to say that he's dead but 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 egypt since have gone through one evolution 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 have 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 crying there is an increase in crime wave 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 the news mind she can hardly scrape together enough money to buy food for her family she gets a little comfort from believing his son died fuku was but even then three times to be want the country braces its own food fresh round of protests as anger against the ruling military moments. kyra. now this and other stories are always available at r.t. doc concert check out what else we have lined up for you there drawdown gorgeous

sound have to put an artistic military display through the eyes of the bolshoi thiers lead choreographer and quit smoking in a shot a new york lab develops a vaccine to help you kick the nicotine habit find out more at r.t. dot com. facing a possible energy shortfall in the coming years britain is looking for a boost yet was 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 sarah for now explains. britain wants to keep the light switch done and to do so it says it needs nuclear power real to security thing. that has to be security of supply and we don't want to have our security to supply people willing to over twenty three or four to do that or all the way forward those we're. going over that we must look for another. energy

distribution energy and that would be nuclear the u.k. might say it wants energy 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 fukushima disaster these plans 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 be country. opening up of foreign investment from other countries because during the best route to invest in nuclear their own countries don't want to take it so they're going to have 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 of plantain broadwell is one of eight sites the u.k. government has identified as being suitable for a new girls but local residents here say that it's far from suitable in a place fukushima while the people say that though it's unlikely where a major nuclear disaster to happen here it would be extremely hard to evacuate

local communities and their if is that the governments are more concerned with securing investment than securing their safety and there are other concerns too in a bid to attract investment the government's draft energy bill indicated that he's willing to build any plans to charge consumers high a price is to guarantee healthy profits and it seems the government has left itself you alternative sort of sloppy brute. pragmatism is going to happen if nuclear doesn't happen something else will and is pointing the government already because they call 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 neatly apart 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 so bright surf city london. but i'll take a look at some other stories from around the world tant 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 cannon 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 that students say the changes aren't enough. crew of china's shenzhou nine spacecraft is back safely on the ground the team including the nation's first female astronaut spent nearly two weeks in space practicing docking missions with a module praise the progress as it works towards building its own space station china will become the third country after the u.s. and russia to stand independently maintained space into orbit. he was democrats are

applauding a ruling by the supreme court calling president barack obama's health care legislation act constitutional and there are the controversial law most americans are required to purchase health insurance by twenty fourteen or pay a fine or 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 major a victory for obama as he's up for reelection in november well if you have a fenian on obama's health care reform do share it with us on our web site r t v dot com now let's take a look at the site vote that we have there so far so as you can see seventeen percent believe it will benefit both the american people and the u.s. economy thirteen percent feel obama is just electioneering thirty percent think it's a red herring distracting the nation from a looming economic crisis and the majority of which is now forty percent say it's

designed for insurance benefit only or do it is now what do you think of this issue by logging on to our website r t v dot com. and now we're going straight to the world of business where you know i'm not saying optimistic it's up for you so what's happening this hour now yes well basically we're seeing the gains become bigger and bigger and of course that all has to do with. brussels and what leaders now they have struck a deal on the growth package worth of on one hundred fifty billion dollars of course that if anything investors were looking for something to boost their confidence and this was exactly it now let's take a look at what the latest and the. birds are saying of course it's impolitic the territory needless to say the footsies adding over one percent of the german dax is adding over two percent in five european banks are doing particularly well the italian and the spanish banking sector rose sharply as the news came out not just to give you more details on the what happened in the results of the meeting we do know that there's been a proposal outlined for

a single supervisory mechanism for europe's banking system and banks will now have the possibility of recapitalization of financial assistance provided by the regions current bailout fund but that from still need european stability mechanism becomes available and of course because of all of this good news the euro is trading higher against the u.s. dollar similarly with the ruble bought when it comes to the u.s. dollar the ruble is gaining against the greenback now moving on to the markets are picking up that optimism and we're seeing positive numbers here as well the r.t.s. out in over two and a half percent when it comes to the my six adding over two percent slightly behind there but also when it comes to russian investors it's a crude prices which are going from strength to strength i get to that in a second but first let's take a look at the individual share moves on the my sex naturally most of the blue chips are higher we have financials in particular is adding almost two and a half percent there we have carmaker after adding over half a percent and that's despite the fact that it's

a sales plunged fourteen percent in the first half of the year again investors they are not faultless and focus in on the pessimistic side of things and also we have gas money gas from earning over one and a half percent this hour and right now of course we do know that the annual general meeting is taking place in the company and we already have some results that are coming out from that we know that for two thousand and eleven the company's net profit more than doubled reaching iraq or twenty seven billion dollars and also gas from ensure that in a few days it will come up with new conditions regarding the stockmen project in the barents sea and the. holders of the world's biggest gas company are also expected to like the company's board members and improve major deals and they will also decide on dividends very important which could be a record high this year and of course we'll keep you updated on the meeting throughout the day but for now we have one more story on gas from and that is the companies now involved in a territorial dispute between china and vietnam china's oil corporation scene the

uk has started an exploration center in an offshore region that hanoi says infringes on blogs already licensed to the russian form as well as america's exxon mobile beijing claims that sovereignty over almost the entire south china sea which is believed to contain large oil and gas deposits and straddles global trade routes and then let's say gastro might quit the project to keep its business ties with the world's second largest economy and from gas let's switch over to oil and see what's happening with appliances as i said they are again and in fact they have rebounded from their lowest close in almost nine months we said lies with this rating close to eighty dollars per barrel but investors want to see it hit that eighty dollars more per barrel and then keep going higher of course another breadline this at around ninety two dollars and a thirty two cents and this brings us to the end of this edition of business for now back to you marina. thanks very much indeed and we'll hear from you next hour

we will. all right thanks for now and i'll be back with the headlines after a short break stay with us. the goal of. the reluctant.

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