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around the world twenty four hours a day this is. live in moscow tough talks are on the table for russia's foreign minister. and u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton as they meet today to discuss the issue of syria now that is a deeply divided and how the crisis in the middle eastern country should be resolved with more. if the two sides if rove and hillary clinton can come to some sort of position tonight in the meeting in st petersburg this really could drastically change the future of international action as it pertains to 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 they should not be dictated by outside foreign powers the problem is that all of these 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 nonsense of this fear 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 involved well the u.s. position has been no iran at the talks they do not want the arena's to be present the arabians are of course. 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. reporting right there from some people smart she will be bringing us updates from her crucial meeting with her in russia and the u.s. on syria just a bit later on friday you know in syria itself president us. has said in a rare interview that it's his government's judy to quote annihilate terrorists the interview coincided with an escalation of violence in the capital damascus that the authorities blame on terrorist groups in the latest incident two blasts erupted near syria's main justice complex or if an option a visitor the site shortly after the attack. to see don't think.

you can see. taken away and the see. this is a problem. that was still receiving conflicting reports on how many people have been affected 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. many police and security people but the u.n. refused to talk. about these. very very central the syrian capital rises questions and concerns over the security situation here in damascus has been under government control. attacked more. rebels. groups this has happened to stay up to another attack on. the syrian state run television syrian news. has been attacked

by government terrorist groups killing at least seven people. meantime a syrian family claims their relatives have been massacred by syrian rebels we got a hold of some rather disturbing footage of the alleged slaughter in the city of hama the video with details of the story available on our website 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 fund to funnel money directly to struggling banks a so-called short term fix opposed by the german chancellor angela merkel from brussels with this reporter's artie's test for us earlier. now what they did to spend a lot of time talking about was this new growth and jobs pact yet another practice essentially 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 will they did get it in the scene 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 and 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 you dressed the leaders here having to go back to their own countries to present these decisions 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 of germany that about sixty percent of germans want to see a referendum on the. policy. these tests are silly reporting back from brussels well let's get some more insight into the e.u. summit decisions on our joined by a modern dress and n.e.p. and member of the e.u.

budget committee thank you very much for coming on the program today as you just heard politicians of hailed the deal as a breakthrough is not what you would call it. where i think we still need to really see what are the conditions of the spill out i think that bailing out banks directly without knowing what course to become bankrupt order to have problems is a very bad decision i think that. there should have been an investigation of the spanish banks that are in trouble before the you took any of this issue and to bail them out directly spain seems to have been able to get their its own way here but we need to see what they can stations are going to be in the long term. at the end of the day i think it's always the taxpayers paying for who is footing the bill

and i think this is totally and here i think you as a very valid point is certain we've heard some analysts talking about it here on our t.v. today this so-called breakthrough where the european bailout fund will be used to as they say funnel money directly to the bank should perhaps go to the government or perhaps to the taxpayers as you were saying who foot the bills what about the people for example who have mortgages credit card bills car loans to pay off and then that money will actually go back to the banks should it really go to the bias . well in my view it shouldn't go to the banks because you know the banks have made the wrong the situation it's the banks that have made this wrong the stations and they have not they are they are not paying for the wrong decisions it's the taxpayer who is paying for the wrong decisions and this is very unfair and i think that even the you were serious about the whole situation they would first send people to investigate what happened in those banks before being so generous to bail

them out with the money of the taxpayers and this is not happening at all they're talking long term about having a central banking authority. of making the e.c.b. become responsible for supervision of all the banks but you know they should start now why investigated in part happened with the banks before they finally got all this money into the banks i think this is a very bad example and other banks in other member states will feel at ease to make wrong decisions in in the near future so indeed indeed if they continue to make wrong decisions what's to stop them thinking what we're going to get some more money funneled to us in the first place what does it matter as we all know the e.u. summit this meeting where late into the hours last night and we know that germany is tough stance on the eurozone how do you explain this so-called overnight

concession allowing the short term fix to the problems of italy and spain it might seem that angela merkel has perhaps been pushed to the side. well let me tell you one saying that the one thing that has not been discussed openly is the fact that we are giving the member states are giving sovereignty in exchange for this bailout you know the east gaining much more control on the member states it's getting into the member states. into the national budget and i think that. this is not good for all the member states for all the. eurozone as a whole i don't agree that we should give more sovereignty and control to the european union we have to remember that it is the e.u. institutions that have signed the policy the economic and monetary policy that

is affecting the present times in my view this institutions have failed dramatically and what we are doing now is giving more powers to this institutions that have failed this is. a total lack of common sense and i think that's. merkel has decided to agree to this bailout firstly because she's getting more power to the e.u. in exchange and secondly because she sees that if she doesn't help italy and spain then the euro would collapse well there are certainly a lot of analysts that have been saying for months now misandrous in the eurozone is destined for collapse mr martin douras an m.e.p. member of the e.u. budget committee certainly a conversation that requires more time than we have available for us here are two today thank you for coming on the program and here thank you. all right well it's

good to have you with us here on r.t. today the deadline set for julian assange to surrender to london police for extradition procedures has now passed the weekly's editor had warned that he would ignore the demand saying that asylum law both internationally and domestically takes precedence over extradition law artie's laura smith now joins us live from london good to see you laura so why do you take us through the story of us aren't being summoned to the police station and the consequences of his failure to do so. well this is what's called a surrender notice basically it's a letter that's delivered to the person in question saying that they have to attend the police station when and where they say essentially to hand yourself in we received a statement from the police which said that this surrender notice was a normal next step in the extradition process if as he has now fails to surrender then he will be liable for for arrest but the key thing here is

that he was already of course liable for arrest he was in breach of his bail conditions which stated that he was supposed to spend every night at his registered address but in fact he spent the last nine days at the ecuadorian embassy so two points really in a way why would he surrender he can hardly be more dire straits than he is already he loses nothing really by ignoring this request he thinks of course that if he goes to sweden then he won't get a fair trial on these allegations of sexual assault and not only that but he will then be extradited to the u.s. to face espionage charges and secondly of course he says that he received legal advice that asylum law internationally and domestically takes precedence over extradition law the police evidently don't feel that way because they are carrying on with the extradition process as if the asylum request had never been lodged now the next step after this in a normal extradition process would be of course for the police to go to our

soldiers house and take him in themselves if he won't give himself up they have to then bring him in but of course they can't do that from the ecuadorian embassy because the police are not allowed under diplomatic agreement to set foot on the embassy of another another country so it's unclear what will happen next in this procedure but certainly it seems as if the police are sticking to the normal extradition process this may though put pressure on the only. dorian's to come to a decision on what's going to happen to you then as far as whether they'll agree to his asylum request or not. certainly to some analysts that ecuador is currently you're taking phone calls and possibly e-mails are from washington with all sorts of influence suggesting why it would or should not grant asylum to julian. smith live in london thank you for joining us today. with ecuador taking his time to decide on a songes plea for asylum as i was saying some are suggesting it might well be coming under pressure from capitol hill sibel edmonds founder of the national

security will supply was coalition has this to say mostly what's happening right now is the political side and you have to realize that they may be and this is the ecuador to me 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 probably the united states so the rest assured they right now as we speak the state department is in the door plenty to think about by showing what kind of consequences they will be facing whether it's the canonical and whether it's political and so this is the reason they are taking this long and beyond hoping that your position would be yes they would grant asylum to giuliana son but considering their weight the united states carries but also considering that he's three or four nation in terms of the types of measures they

take to put pressure on other governments it will remain to be seen. live from moscow this is r t it's good to have you with us today the protest mood in egypt doesn't seem to be subsiding the spite the long anticipated announcement of the presidential vote results last weekend people again plan to take to the iconic therea square this friday to demand a complete handover of power from the military to the country's newly elected leader but amid the neverending swarm of political demands the psych psychological stress that ordinary egyptians are constantly under is often ignored as are his policies leah reports. 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 over in that 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 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 lose

especially since so things are a lot different after the uprisings as we were before and people before used to enjoy 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 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 wasted and detained by the authorities have come here most egyptians have stayed away. but psychological help is the last thing on my 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 that threatens to be why tartars the country braces itself a fresh round of protests as anger against the ruling military mounts policy r.t. . this and other stories available twenty four seven that dot com let's have

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astronaut spent nearly two weeks in space practicing docking missions with the module beijing praise the progress as it works towards building its own space station china would become the third country after the u.s. and russia to send independently maintained a space into. we'll see marina with the business shortly for now facing a possible energy shortfall in the coming years britain is looking for a boost there with no money to develop nuclear power alone it must try and seduce foreign investors but it's a decision that has many wondering if the u.k. government is putting profits before safety and for the explain. britain wants to keep the light switch done and to do so it says it needs me clear power real to secure the two things. to be security of supply and we don't want to have our security to supply the paulding trade over twenty four to do that or on the way

forward we're. going over that we must look for another. energy that's up b.c. 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.s. had been slated to build a number of the new plants but in the wake of the few 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's left the government having to hunt further afield for the much needed cash despite saying they won't let the pendants an outside source says it's countries like japan and china the persons 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 sophisticated country. opening up of poor investment from other countries because they need desperately to invest in nuclear they're. countries don't want to take it so they're going to give it to britain having been one of the first countries to go nuclear but since 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 an energy shortfall 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 girls but local residents here say that it's far from suitable in a place where while the people say that there is unlikely where

a major nuclear disaster to happen here it would be extremely hard to evacuate local communities and there are fears that the governments are more concerned with securing investments than securing their safety and there are other concerns too in a bid to attract investment the government's draft energy bill indicated those willing to build any plans to charge consume as high a price is to guarantee healthy profits and it seems to government has let itself you alternative sort of sloppy brute. pragmatism is going to happen if nuclear doesn't happen something else will and it's pointing 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 it 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 say bright surf city london. has promised as marina for hourly business update good to see you again though i do understand you've been keeping a close. investors have lost faith in e.u. leaders however the numbers now could be suggesting otherwise trying to put me on the spot. all basically they have been saying that for days they were saying that they didn't believe that leaders would take any adequate measures it turns out that they were satisfied with the talks. and in fact the leaders struck a deal to make a growth package worth about one hundred and fifty billion dollars so of course investors are very happy after that if we take a look at the latest figures will see both the pussy and the dikes are gaining we have put seattle over one percent the german dax over two and

a half percent in the black right now but also about the spanish and italian banking side keeps rising was the news all around if we take a look at currencies will also see that the euro is strengthened against the u.s. dollar as well against the ruble and when it comes to the ruble and the dollar we see that it's gaining that. the markets of course they're picking up the optimism as well as we've seen across the board and that's not only coming from europe but also the fact that requies is becoming stronger and stronger i'll get to that on the side going but first let's take a look at some individual shermans on the bisects nationally most of the blue chips i don't particularly well we have financials doing great we have to get it over two and a half percent car maker off devices going over half a percent and that's despite news that its sales plunged. in the first half of the year and then of course we have gas from which is gaining over one and a half percent and in fact the general annual general meeting is taking place right now we know details from that and that's that it's two thousand of a net profit more than doubled reaching

a record twenty seven billion dollars also gas from ensure that in the few days it will come up with new conditions regarding the stock project in the back and c.n.n. also the shareholders of the world's biggest company. like the company's board members and approve major deals and of course we'll be talking about dividends decide how high they will be and before that they'll be. record high this year in fact well let's take a look at oil. from strength to strength rebounded from their lowest close in almost nine months. and bright which is of course every leave for boston and brings us to the end of this. business. or the rest of. the headlines in just a moment and the latest installment of technology in just a moment here on. living

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