syria under siege saudi troops reportedly close in on the volatile country from the south turkish units lined up in the north pole on the eve of a crucial international crisis conference. the e.u. agrees to a new rescue agency for banks despite furious opposition from germany with future taxpayer funded bailouts for banks now sets of bypassing governments entirely. julian defies a police summons and remains tucked away in the ecuadorian embassy in london waiting for the latin american country to decide on his bid for political asylum.

producers to after six pm on friday here in moscow this is the live with me rory sushi the chief negotiator in the syrian conflict he says he's confident an upcoming meeting in geneva will bear fruit kofi annan has called a gathering of the world's most influential states to find common ground on how to end hostilities in syria moscow and washington however will discuss the issue before the main talks and more on that to ati's lucy calf. the diplomatic positions are so vastly different there will be nothing short of a diplomatic miracle for some sort of a breakthrough to come out one side or another is going to have to seriously drastically change its position in order to go forward here now the sticking point for the americans has been that president bashar al assad has to go that is any sort of transitional government that the country's tomorrow might to discuss cannot

cannot take place with assad and force that has been the position of secretary of state hillary clinton in fact that is why that was the conditions under which she agreed to join the meetings tomorrow the russian position remains meanwhile continues to be that. you know foreign countries outside powers cannot dictate a solution for syria a transition is absolutely necessary that was the wording of the foreign minister sergey lavrov yesterday but that transitional government is going to have to be negotiated by the powers within syria and not foreign countries we know that will be on it is going to try to put forward some sort of agreement on you know a transitional government that's going to contain members of potentially president assad's cabinet at the moment it doesn't specifically explicitly bar assad who teaches that baiting but that is the implication that the west is hoping for and so i guess if i'm less on one side or the other backs down tomorrow is not going to succeed it's a really really tense diplomatic situation and again unless hillary clinton and

sergey lavrov can sort of hash it out behind closed doors tonight it's going to be really difficult to see how tomorrow will play out in a positive way for syria. reporting right. here's where else the news i can see suggests that saudi troops are moving towards jordan on their way to syria as southeastern border the units are reportedly backed by tanks missiles and anti-aircraft batteries so troops are also mussing on the country's northern border banker is in talks with nato over the creation of a pos. zone syria is also reportedly been building up its forces with dozens of tanks being deployed but relations between. are at a crisis point after syria down a turkish warplane last week for violating the country's airspace and for the meantime inside syria the violence does go on the latest incident two blasts in the capital targeted the palace of justice. was that the same. the right now

to see don't think that happened here and yet in the old damascus you can see them it's cause an hour taken away and the sea is now been cleaned this is a problem. 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 attack occurred here in the past as. the syrian state run television syrian news. here has been attacked by government terrorist groups killing at least seven people. a corresponding reform often reporting there will this is our to use good to have you with us today so the come a bit later in the program but of the friday feeling for me one thing in egypt in our weekly gathering of massive crowds flocking to to rear square a trying to keep the dreams of revolution still alive. last year a tough night of wrangling e.u. leaders have agreed to set up a new or thorpey tasked with keeping sinking banks afloat and to do that the new agency will be given access to europe's mammoth the bailout funds stock in a large part by taxpayer money this exact function was previously carried out by governments but now the e.u.

can bail out a nation's banks without adding to the government's debt levels at least according to the books that is something that germany strongly opposes but was forced to relent on due to spanish and italian insistence and. member of the e.u. budget committee believes this sends to the banks entirely the wrong message 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 really 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 what we are doing now is giving more powers to this institutions that have played this is. a total lack

of common sense and this is a very by the example and other banks in other member states will feel at ease to make wrong decisions in in the near future. and the pressure is not over for germany's chancellor angela merkel quite yet with a crucial vote due in the german parliament later today the bundestag will decide on whether to ratify the european stability mechanism a massive new bailout fund to cover europe and although it is expected to pass there's a growing social opposition in germany to the bailouts artie's talks on a boycott explains just where that resistance is coming from. it's a job interview with geopolitical implications and yes his 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're under increasing pressure to share the fruits of their labor. the problem is that in greece that. they come here and

like. in the street but we are also working very hard. working from the morning till night every day they get a dozen of calls from their greek can patch shirts with requests for money jobs of both some like. takis just walk 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 destroy. our country from troops so they'll be a million people. not to help but. while references to the countries nats of past have appeared more than once in the great coverage of the bailout the 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 spins 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 a broader position the german authorities are still pushing for the permanent bailout fund on thursday i'm going merkel appealed to be in peace to support the proposal as it goes for a vote in parliament and send. a package for growth and jobs at the center of the debate and i think today it is right that we can pass and i will support it for that i have received inclusive. board at home from the german parliament while the parliamentarians are widely expected to vote in favor some see this bleed of opinions between depair and the republic represents a test of germany's democratic system democracy begins at home begins in the russia begins in germany it begins in italy and spain where the national parliaments.

serve it. with 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 now and very certain about now. is destroying democracy they see peace to be hardworking but in the case if europe's most productive country it seems do you just never stop coming in the way cards see reporting from germany. well i mean the european financial crisis the u.k. now looks for nuclear investment following concerns of a shortfall britain is bucking the post fukushima trend and searching out foreign help for an energy boost. it's ten minutes past the hour here in the russian

capital now wiki leaks founder julian assange is ignoring a request from police in london to report for extradition procedures to have him sent to sweden the deadline has passed and the whistleblower remains in ecuador's embassy and waiting for the latin american country to decide on his plea for political asylum reporting from london ortiz laura smith. 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 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 in 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 of 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 julian authorities 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 on the ecuadorians to come to a decision on what's going to happen to julian assange whether they'll agree to his asylum request or not. artie's or smith reporting that while ecuador says it is weighing up the possible consequences of sheltering a songe some suggest it might be coming under pressure from washington sibel edmonds is the founder of the national security whistleblowers coalition and one of the several thousand supporters who signed the petition for ecuador to take in the wiki leaks her she explains her concerns 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 letters that petitions from activists around the world but on the other hand they are also getting a list of also made them sent threats from the united states so the rest assured they 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 canonical and 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 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 remain to be seen. of course you can always find out much more on our website r.t. dot com including twitter taking

a stand against so-called internet trolls anonymous profiles with no picture or information could be blocked from tweeting to stop people sending hate filled messages. plus the report on torture as the un response to allegations that the israeli military shackled palestinian children in custody holding them in solitary confinement. it is good to have you with us here on our t.v. today another friday and another mass protest on cairo's iconic to rear square egypt now has its first president elected since the toppling of hosni mubarak the military generals still seem to be doing their best to limit mohamed morsi has powers the supreme council of the armed forces has made changes to the constitution

vastly reducing more sees abilities the top military general will also work remain in his post as defense minister in the new government and this has enraged protesters who are gathering to demand a complete power handover but amid the never ending political turmoil it's the psychological state of common in gyptian that's being overlooked as artie's fall asleep now with. campaign as war as it was the date happened john howard was just twenty one years old when he was killed square the bullet that shattered his heart to a park his family leaving his mother and able to carry on i don't know in the can 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 i've 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'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 traumatized especially since so things are a lot different after the uprisings as they were before and people before used to enjoy a very low crime rate for example very little political change however after the

uprising 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 that threatens to be wiped out as the country braces itself for a fresh round of protests as anger against the ruling military. policy r t cairo. the ins and outs of egypt's political hardships are also in the spotlight in today's edition of cross talk are becoming your way next hour here on. well the progress of democratic change succeed and was there even any in the first place.

there are thirty people who rule egypt you know another twenty nine they threw mubarak out of the window because they didn't want his son to succeed he's a very competent hard minded tough soldiers and seems to me that to describe it as a popular uprising is very hopeful it isn't like that at all. they wanted to get rid of mubarak and they did it with a complicated but in the end successful way i mean we were just democracy fit in here if. it doesn't fit there's no such thing yes the military has taken back nearly all of its powers yes the military currently has all the important decisions but how long can that last how long can the military hold on to power eventually the muslim brotherhood is going to gain more and more state institutions in egypt and it's going to turn the tide in my opinion in its favor. life in moscow this is r t just a moment on the world update often altho the u.k.

could be heading for an energy shortfall and it seems foreign cash is the only way to get them out of it with no money to develop nuclear power alone it's now been forced to seek overseas investment but some fear public safety will take a back seat to making profits as artie's sarah for. britain wants to keep the light switch done and to do say it says it needs meekly air power. security thing. to be security of supply but we don't want to have our security to supply beholding to another country therefore to do that or all the way forward with oil and gas going that we must put other. energy distribution you know and that would be 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. has been slated to build a number of the new plants 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's 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 sophisticated country. opening up of foreign investment from other countries because during the best really to invest in nuclear their own countries

don't want to take it so they're going to have to britain having being 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 sony clear plant in bradwell 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 were a major nuclear disaster to happen here it would be extremely hard to evacuate local communities and the. if is that the governments are more concerned with securing investment then securing their safety and there are other concerns too in a bid to attract investment the government's job energy bill indicated those

willing to build the new plants to charge consumers higher prices to guarantee healthy profit and it seems the government has left you alternative sort of sloppy brute. pragmatism is going to happen if nuclear doesn't happen something else will and it's binding the government already because they can't 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 so r.t. london. now or straight to the west african nation of mali to start the r.t. want update for you with militants linked to al qaeda reported to have taken

control of the northern desert it comes a day after twenty one people were killed in a gun battle when islamists forced former separatist allies out of the town of and they also patrolled the streets arresting civilians northern cities were seized by both sides and they've since clashed after is the most implemented strict laws pushing the tour. at least one person has been killed and tens of thousands forced from their homes after a week long wildfire in colorado it's so far destroyed more than three hundred houses over a thousand emergency service members are fighting to bring it under control and president barack obama is due to tour the affected areas. declaring it a disaster zone and making federal funds available. still trying to find out what started the blaze. let's cross over to our teams down your bushel standing by in our business desk to bring us up to date for this hour daniel looks like gas

problems looking to extend other north stream pipeline to the u.k. the company's head just said b.p. is interested in joining the gas pipe from russia going through europe the comments came out is annual general meeting where alexei miller also reported a world record twenty seven billion dollars net profit for last year is expected to announce big dividends to shareholders at the meeting as a result which is continuing at the moment mr miller goes from should remain a state owned company there's talk of privatizing lots of russia's prime jewels at the moment because only the government he said can make the huge long term gas field investments necessary but the company has become embroiled in a territorial dispute between china and vietnam china's all corporations started exploration tenders in an offshore region that infringes on blocked already licensed to the russian firm and america's exxon mobil beijing claims sovereignty over almost the entire south china sea which is thought to contain huge deposits of

oil and gas wall street has opened up those sports with. ten percent of the profits fell blackberry maker broomfield fifteen percent of the delays with the black berry ten operating system the e.u. summit in brussels last night germany looks to have removed some opposition to bailing out failed banks at the summit there should avoid the vicious national spending cuts which of left greece and italy on the brink and voting against parties and focus on spanish lenders which say they're running out of cash spending financials not surprisingly jumped on the news madrid is four percent today the banks have been boosted by the used to your is recovering yesterday's falls on the greenback boosted by the. from brussels the ruble is gaining on the ball will be. in the last of trade big games here in moscow boy toy europe but also today's impressive performance the obvious interest there for almost five percent off for

the day alone crude has shot up five dollars a barrel today off the sliding three dollars yesterday it hit month lows the light sweet back over eighty one brant edging further up two hundred dollars a barrel and up today. on the web site many thanks indeed we'll see you next hour daniel. the headlines in just a second the latest installment of technology updates see you in a second. they've

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