international powers are heading for talks in geneva desperately seeking a plan to and syria's bloodshed as turkey and reportedly saudi arabia are mobilizing forces towards the syrian border. julia sounds will stay put at the door an embassy in london until a decision on his asylum request declining to comply with a request from british police to surrender for extradition to sweden. and german chancellor angela merkel the fans at home the deal to help struggling banks but there is skepticism the measure will solve the walks for problems and debt crisis.

in the russian capital you watching our marina joshie welcome to the program major world and regional powers will convene in geneva today to try and map out a strategy to end the bloody sixteen month old conflict in syria and the deep divisions between nations russia's foreign minister says there's a good chance to forge common ground sergey lavrov was speaking after a one on one meeting with u.s. secretary hillary clinton are loosely confident has been following their talks in saying that as burg. hillary clinton and lover of the foreign minister met for about an hour the russian foreign minister did walk away from the meeting with cautious optimism he said that he hopes that some sort of a diplomatic agreement in geneva during the emergency meeting as possible according to law broke he said that he felt like the u.s. did shift its stance but to some degree his his words specifically were that the secretary of state did not raise any ultimatums now he didn't explain exactly what that means there's no it's up to us to of course that perhaps that means that the americans might move away from their sticking point to their demands that any

negotiations begin with assad stepping down of course the russian position has been separate from that the russians have been pushing for a solution for syria that is a originated within syria negotiated by the parties there there was some discussion . in terms of sort of the positive nature of the talks rove said that he didn't feel that the americans understood very clearly russians position and he felt that the talks were constructive but again it looks like the world will have to wait one more day to really find out whether diplomacy is still feasible when it comes to syria in the meetings in geneva. often of reporting there now israel's death can his agency sought to have close links with mossad is reporting that saudi arabia has started to move troops towards neighboring jordan to mask them on syria's southeastern border zyad has turkish forces gathered on the northern syrian frontier following the recent downing of a military jet by damascus and austin is following developments in the syrian

capital. we're getting alarming reports on foreign troops being deployed at or headed towards the syrian borders from the north west and south some original media believed to have close ties with israeli intelligence reports heavy saudi troop movements towards the door damian and iraqi borders after king abdullah put the country's military on high alert for joining the uprising against president bashar assad in syria its report of the special units have tanks misawa special forces and batteries and the plan is to enter jordan then move towards syria further and then and to syria and establish a security zone around the towns of the resort that i and others known as the epicenter is over the uprising against the syrian regime western gulf sources also reporting that jordan is on war alerts two we're hearing this immense reports

that turkey is continuing to build up its syrian border units with tanks and anti aircraft machine guns and missiles in what they say is defensive move full when they down over turkish jet by syria last friday literally issues between the two neighbors deteriorated dramatically they didn't manage to agree on how and where exactly the fighter jet was hit shortly after the incident turkey has claimed that from now on any military object coming from syrian side towards the turkish border will be treated as a threat and heat in damascus suburbs some seven to ten kilometers away from the city center where a number over opposition strongholds have been constant sources of troubles you are in this conflict of clashes between the army and the rebels have been escalating to and we've been getting reports of increased number of casualties from both warring

sides i'm from both military and civilians brave national reporting their military maneuvers by the saudis and turks and the are syria's border are no coincidence nasa view of. a middle east reporter for the center for research on globalization. you know you're national more reason to separate countries and just by chance this is very much a coordinated effort by turkey and saudi arabia to pressure on the. government of saudi arabia. among other countries are. members of the. war in syria for the last fifteen months and its original come the end of terror there isn't subversion can do you don't commit. to. the mercenaries will be growing these people are playing with fire there is no doubt awarded at the minute i would say it's a sign alteration schieber rope and the pressure on the. government could it could

precipitated a war we really want a knife edge here at home or else as an reaction to developments and syria can log onto our web site r.t. dot com and also don't forget to check out our correspondence twitter feeds for all the latest on the ongoing conflict there. if. you're watching our team join assad will remain as a quid or an embassy in london until a decision on his asylum bit is made he said he's staying put after a defying

a british police demand to turn himself in to face extradition procedures assad is trying to escape being handed over to sweden claiming the u.s. will get its hands on him once he's their fears that retired cia officer ray mcgovern says are quite justified. in our country there is no law against publishing secrets it's pretty clear that there's a little indictment ready for him to be tried under the very draconian s.p. and i check it was used to identify german spies and that kind of thing one of the penalties is killing so all they have to do is lead really hard on the swedes and make sure that the swedes do what they did in two thousand and one and that was to hand over two applicants for asylum to the tender mercies of the chip shin police to be tortured in our rendition program so the swedes are anything but neutral they can be depended to do whatever the us wants them to do and that's precisely why julian is free that were he to be extradited to sweden it would be very very quick

that he would be brought to the united states and face the same kind of treatment that bradley manning treated was treated too and that as you know the u.n. route through a cold. conditions equivalent to torture. are you watching r t live from moscow still had for you on our t.v. one day away with a full bar go on iranian crude exports said to go into effect we'll look at these sanctions actually accomplish and who they end up hurting themselves to plots facing fines for thier sexuality and new law in several russian cities has many forms of homosexual community fear even more ignorance and discrimination.

there hasn't been anything yet on t.v. . it is to get the maximum political impact. the source material is one hopes he journalism we. we want to present. something real. german chancellor angela merkel has told her country's law makers that help for struggling banks will come with strings attached she's been defending the

concessions she made at a summit in brussels including the decision to allow the european bailout fund funnel money directly to struggling financial institutions for the first time that largest economy have strongly opposed this option but was forced to give in after insistence from spain and italy that the german parliament also approved the so-called fiscal pact which says even tougher budget rules for eurozone nations dr jack rasmussen professor of political economy at st mary's college in california says measures which leaders hailed as a breakthrough won't solve the block's core problems. you can bail out the banks but that's no guarantee you're going to get economic growth which is what you must have in in the longer run and what i see when the brussels end is growth is it is very much tokenism at this quite that just moving money around from the european investment bank and so forth and the amount is a grossly insufficient to stimulate growth so that whole picture has to be

further developed the euro crisis is really three crisis names in one three dimensions and one is the sovereign debt crisis another is the banking crisis which is becoming more visible and they sustained but the other is the economic crisis the really colony and of course we know how europe is rapidly is slipping into recession and various other countries and as long as that growth does not occur it's going to feed back and exacerbate both the banking and the song run debt crisis. italy has been in the eye of the eurozone storm for weeks now and while prime minister mario monti may have returned from the e.u. summit as a waiter is facing tough times at home italians are becoming increasingly angry about the government's austerity push with alternative political forces gaining popularity as artists their first reports some people seemingly would rather trust a comic and their prime minister. on that it's least economic situation it's no

laughing matter so it might come as some surprise that it's full of a t.v. comedian that paid. the latest character to still italy's political spotlight as the euro crisis continue voters have become increasingly disillusioned with mainstream politics in a radical apocalypse bridge and grassroots movements such as you can i say see on the right and i think growing in force and popularity that take willow and his five star movement now thrive online shunning traditional media and gaining huge respect with its li younger generation something that technocrat premier nary a monkey is safe our failed to do they're all whispering about young people but young people are not really represented in this don't think it goes off people in government. trades are a very often. old people which. don't have the right feeling

of what use is really happening in the county we're trying to make you to europe change that's the point you have tried with some kind of policies which is merely bodies and policy if you want to talk about it and now it's austerity so it's selling everything the state does not have to control anything about the economy but it is not this is not working with elections across europe marked by the kind in turnouts it's leeds recent local election results were alarming with a third of those eligible to vote staying home and mainstream parties losing to the protest in a major way all parties traditional parties just are not realizing that. things are changing so quickly and they are old old they're trying to. very innovative themselves but they just are not able angrier. in this situation

he's moving like a green. i mean because he can jump from an argument to another one and he's always wiener currently in a status suspended democracy when he's an elected government trying to stay out of the financial storm the question on everybody's lips does but equal is me stand a chance when next year's elections come around the parties are now taking very seriously because a couple weeks ago he won some major victories in local elections in italy including that. position in a very significant city in italy and other places and i think he's filled the vacuum and so the parties on the right on the left the democratic party the party the mainstream center left is very worried by the threat he poses now whether his five star movement can become a political party i'm very doubtful of that but it certainly has struck a chord with a certain type of you know young activists who are fed up with italy's preschool class and it's not just the populations of greece spain and france has seen

formally dispels by the own going quite is a movement like the pirate party in germany and five star in italy are gaining solid ground as the euro is in state looks increasingly wobbly i think it's going to survive even if. you just want to survive. we need a big change could it now be it's least form a funny man who find a solution to the crisis it leaves no stranger to performance in its parliament but the decisions of the last flamboyant leader left the country with one in three unemployed myatt in debt with its economy sinking the euro project might now seem to many like a bad joke and it's one that's left us all wondering just what the punch line will be there for our thing. well next hour max highs are in safe harbor dig deeper into financial woes in the e.u.

and further afield globally and expose those who are making things even worse. russia's top human rights watchdog is planning to revise recently introduced laws banning what lawmakers describe as gay propaganda and some of the country cities a similar bill may also be introduced on a nationwide scale and while the lawmakers say they're not fighting against homosexuality gay rights activists say the measures will make their community more isolated than ever are reports. these two girls known as tattoo once made a fortune by pretending to be lesbian just a decade ago their cases were broadcast worldwide taking them to the top charts across the globe today it would have likely been punished by a new law adopted in several russian cities it bans propaganda of lesbian

homosexual bisexual relations transgenderism to the minors the fines go up to seventeen thousand dollars. we are talking about the propaganda of same sex relations and the whole. society as lesbians homosexuals by search was and transgenders are often referred to their activities have developed a certain artistic anesthetics style are promoted heavily on stage to be performances as fashionable or popular and up to date. you have to understand we're not fighting against sexual minorities the legislation is aimed at protecting children and the under-aged we're not meddling with anybody's private life here what the how do you know but again rights activists say the law lacks clarity and allows too much room for interpretation by police which could see

crackdowns any time with the community wants to highlight the prejudices they see the law also puts his propaganda of homosexuality on a par with paedophilia which gay groups here will spread both ignorance and aggressive homophobia. with. it enough it aims to exclude members of l.g.b. two groups from any public activities and deprive us of the chance to lead the society know our needs and problems and equating us to the peril files is just meant to defame us on their money in the me have been together for over two years but believe they had a family many would any their biggest frustration used to be that they can get married but if the new law reaches moscow they see life getting much worse. socially it's an atrocious law that would be telling us we are worse than other people. i think our society therefore it is good

society is more tolerant and that's happened thanks to the fact that we used to come out and show that we exist that we are the same as others can tolerance to the same sex relations in russia is far from hyde park the mr charles he was illegal until nine hundred ninety three punishable by prison and anti-gay prejudice runs deep with much of the community remaining largely underground. most of the parades in russia if not didn't end up in brawls and beatings with more police present than activists. the lawmakers say they only reflect the mood of the majority in the most recent polls show more than eighty percent of russian population is opposed to the idea of same sex marriage while almost powerful russians think that gays and lesbians don't deserve the same rights as the rest of society. but you were a dog you wouldn't i don't understand why there is so much anger in my country

based on a principle i don't know them there is lesbians never seen one but i'm strongly against them and i'm so tired of those years a living and pretending i don't exist or that i do but not the way that you would like me to be. party moscow. while there is always more stories available for you at r.t. dot com including twitter taking a stand against so-called internet trolls and honest profiles was a no picture or person information could be blocked from twitting to stamp out hate messages. plus the russian state duma considers plans to label n.g.o.s that receive funding for abroad as foreign agents disclosing their forty's to the public .

well there is just a day to go before a. bargain on iranian crew the experts over to iran's nuclear program takes effect and that's as america's latest set of sanctions kicked off on friday the u.s. however has granted china and singapore a last minute examines from financial penalties for buying a raid oil this falls earlier waivers to more than a dozen other countries which include japan india and turkey but unlike most of them china has always been opposed to us you know lateral sanctions on iran lawyer an activist bit of the stuff he says that such measures never achieve what they supposedly intend and instead just hurt the most vulnerable. the sort of stated objective of both the united states and the european union in carrying out these sanctions is that they are meant to persuade iran to come to the table and negotiations on their nuclear program but all we've really seen both

historically when we when we look at iraq as well as now is that the iranian government absolved bears little to no branch or burden of what the sanctions are actually doing it's really the people that feel the biggest burden iran now is faced with it extruding lehi some say twenty some go up to sixty percent of an inflation rate in the country so what we're really seeing and terms of the effect. is not so much these state players and how they're affected but how ordinary people inside iran are actually getting affected by these policies now take a look at some other stories from around the world egyptian president elect mohamed morsi will officially be sworn in on saturday a day after he rallied a massive crowd in cairo as to where your where he promised to fight the ruling military council which we said we'd change the constitution to weaken presidential powers transferred. them to the generals instead huge protests have been demanding a complete power handover by the military which has been in control since last

year's revolution toppled the mubarak regime morsi is it gets first islamist and civilian elected leader. at least eight people are dead and scores have been wounded after three separate bombs exploded in central iraq the explosives were planted on motorcycles and went off within minutes of each other the area is predominantly shiite prime target for terrorists in the country june it has been one of the deadliest months in iraq since u.s. troops left in december with attacks killing more than two hundred people. in west africa as large as fires with ties to al qaida are claiming control over the northern desert region of mali the day after clashes killed more than twenty people militants patrolled the streets on friday detained civilians and forcing former tour allies out of the town of gal mali's army is struggling to reorganize following it in march which started the country's current unrest to read rebels and

islamic militants seize control of the north in a fast moving events of shortly after the military takeover. now the us is one of the fattest nations in the world and despite increasing knowledge of the harmful effects of unhealthy eating america's waistline kids growing so who's to blame for . the resident is in new york chewing the fat with people there on a matter of growing concern. as the world's knowledge of science and medicine continues to grow so do our waistlines why this week let's talk about that most of the people is too lazy if i think you were just lazy but i think that. is better to see your coach sleeping doing. even the cost of an early death yeah but nobody thinks

because we don't do enough exercise and weak large portions to cut down the portions everyone knows this it seems to be common knowledge no one's doing anything about it that's right because they don't have intestinal fortitude to follow through that's what is meant but the big one. i think even though our knowledge of science getting a lot bigger it's very concentrated i feel like a lot of it is in things like colleges and the higher educated but we're not transferring that knowledge to other people it's all caught in one place and right spreading it around the population enough so that's why we still enjoy things like fast food is because a lot of people are still ignorant to how bad it really is or what the calories oh that's because it's like a drug it is like a drug we're all addicts tell that delicious that's our problem what's your addiction we like to sit chocolate chip cookies i just think that poor middle class communities just don't have access to enough information and education about healthy living so is it government's responsibility to spread that or is it a personal responsibility thing for people to take care of themselves both i think

as well i think sinden mark. there's a levy on each product so people are forced to buy less products i think but if you think that's fair shouldn't a person be able to buy whatever crap they want. yes but some governments need money. you can't tell people you can't use peanut oil or whatever to cook your you know cook your food and so is it. process of natural selection and if people are going to make bad choices they're going to die earlier and that's the way it should be you think so whether or not you think it's a problem the modern world is getting fatter and fatter and that can't be a good thing for society as waste or bottom line. i'll be back with a recap our top stories very shortly stay with us. they've

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