today. major international players are gathering in geneva desperately seeking a plan to and syria's bloodshed s. turkey and reportedly saudi arabia are mobilizing forces towards the syrian border . join us on will stay put or an embassy in london until a decision on his asylum request declining to comply with a demand from british police to surrender for extradition to sweden. and german chancellor angela merkel to fans at home that deal to help struggling banks but there's skepticism the measure will solve the blocks core problems and debt crisis . coming to you live from moscow i'm marina joshie major world and regional powers

are convening in geneva to try and map out a strategy to and 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 meeting u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton are just loosely confident was following their talks in st petersburg. 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 a lot of rove 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 is that it's up to us to of course speculate 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. discussion of reform there israel's dept news agency sought to have close links with mossad is reporting that saudi arabia has started to move troops towards neighboring jordan to mass on syria's southeastern border that's us turkish forces gathered on the northern syrian frontier following the recent downing of a military jet by damascus and austin is following developments in this year in capital. where gets an alarming reports on foreign troops being deployed or heading

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 damion and iraqi borders off to can get done look at the countries. tree on high alert for joining in the uprising against president bashar assad in syria it's reported that special units have tanks missiles national forces and batteries and the plan is to enter jordan then move towards syria further and then enter 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 alert to we are 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 of when they down over turkish jet by syria last friday literal ations 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 during 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 on from both military and civilians simultaneous military maneuvers by the

saudis and turks near syria's border are no coincidence and that's the view of finian honey i'm a middle east reporter for the center for research on globalization. you know you're national or reason to separate countries and just by chance this is very much a coordinated effort by turkey and saudi arabia to pressure on the. regime yes our government saudi arabia turkey among other countries are the two members we were or in styria for the last fifteen months and the. come the end of terror there is about subversion there's the can do you don't commit to shoot with. the mercenaries will be growing these people are playing with fire there is no doubt of water at the minute i would say it's a cycle of job creation and the pressure on the. government but it could it could precipitate it

a war we really want and i fancy here. now from our analysis on reaction to developments in syria log on to our web site r t dot com also don't forget to check out our correspondents twitter feeds for all the latest on the ongoing conflict. is. join us and will remain with doron embassy in london until a decision on his asylum bed has made his that he's staying put after the five british police demand to turn himself and 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 is there 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 going to die print ready for him to be tried under the very draconian s.b. 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 lean 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 to applicants for asylum to the tender mercies of the 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 quickly 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. rough true a cold. conditions are equivalent to torture you know watching r t coming to life from moscow still had and this program one day away with a full embargo on iranian crude experts that to go into effect we look out what these sanctions actually accomplish and who they end up hurting the most. plots facing fines for their sexuality and new law in several russian cities has managed from the homosexual community searing even more ignorance and discrimination. to be soon which bright. from violence to friendship.

starts on t.v. dot com. wealthy. it is something. that's not our right. market why not. why not what's really happening to the global economy with mike's crimes are a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report on our. karen towns like america has told her country's lawmakers that health for struggling banks will come with strings attached she has been defending the concessions she made at a summit in brussels including the decision to allow the european bailout funds funnel money the way to struggling financial institutions for the first time he is

largest economy had strongly opposed this option but was forced to give an after insistence from spain and italy the german parliament also approved the so-called fiscal pact which sets even tougher a budget rules for eurozone nations don jeff rossen is professor of political economy at st mary's college in california says the measures which leaders hail as a breakthrough one sold the blocks 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 brussels and this growth pact is that it's very much tokenism at this quite it's 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 cottony and of course we know how europe is rapidly is slipping into recession in various countries and as long as that growth does not occur it's going to feed back and exacerbate both the banking and the sovereign debt crisis. italy has been and the eye of a euro zone storm for weeks now and while prime minister mario monti may have returned from the e.u. summit as a winner he's facing tough times at home italians are becoming increasingly angry about the government's austerity push when alternative political forces gaining popularity as a teaser for us now 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 take

a piece of the latest character to still italy's political spotlight almost as the euro crisis continue voters have become increasingly disillusioned with mainstream politics in a radical apocalypse bridge and grassroots movements such as youth organizations they write and i think growing in force and popularity that they could alone 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 has say far 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 to 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 the only 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 months by the kind in turnout it's leads 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 they're not able angrier. in this situation he's 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 state of suspended democracy because he's an elected government trying to stay out of the financial storm the question on everybody's lips does better take oil is made let 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 the mayoral 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 he. can become a political party i'm very doubtful of 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 who seem formally dispels by the ongoing crisis i mean it's 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're just going to survive. we need a big change could it now be it's least for the funnyman 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 my didn't 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 right. now sour max keiser and stacy 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's cities a similar bill may also be introduced on a nationwide scale and while lawmakers say they are not fighting against homosexuality gay rights activists say the measures will make their community more isolated than ever in our 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 inside the russian cities it bans propaganda of lesbian homosexuals bi sexual relations and transgenderism to the minors the fines go up to

seventeen thousand dollars. you're. talking about the propaganda of same sex relations and the l.g.b. t. society as lesbians homosexuals by search was and transgenders are often referred to their activities have developed a certain artistic anesthetics style were promoted heavily on stage and performances as fashionable 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 line here with how do you know the rights activists say the law lacks clarity and allows too much truthful interpretation by police which could see crackdowns any time with the community wants to highlight the prejudice a face yet i don't know also puts his propaganda of homosexuality on

a par with paedophilia which gay groups here will spread both ignorance and aggressive homophobia. with. enough it aims to exclude members of l.g.b. t. groups from any public activities and deprive us of the chance to let the society know our needs and problems and equating us to the pedophiles is just meant to defame us and you and then money in the me have been together for over two years but believe me they had a family many with enemy 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 it's an atrocious law that would be telling us we are worse than other people. i think our society you know death or 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 of the. tolerance to

the same sex relations in russia is far from the height of her illness or challenged she was illegal until one thousand nine hundred three punishable by prison and anti-gay prejudice runs deep with much of the community remaining largely underground. most people raids 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 yes but you were 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. arty moscow. now there's always more stories available for you at r.t. the cons are website including twitter taking a stand against so-called internet trolls most profiles with no picture of personal from asia could be blocked from tweeting to stamp out the hate messages plus the russian state duma considers plans to label n.g.o.s that receive funding from abroad as foreign agents disclosing their forty's to the public. then there's just a day to go before full on iranian crude exports over to ron's nuclear program takes effect and that's as america's latest set of sanctions kicked in on friday

the u.s. however has granted china and singapore a last minute exemptions from financial penalties for buying uranium while 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 u.s. unilateral sanctions on iran where an activist bit of a stuffy says that such measures never achieve what they supposedly tant and instead just heard from her about. 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 really feenan both historically when we look at iraq as well as now is that the iranian government itself 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 extremely high some say twenty some go up to sixty percent of an inflation rate in the country so we're really seeing and terms of the effect of the sanctions is not so much the state players and how they're affected but how ordinary people inside iran are actually getting affected by these policies let's now take a look at some other stories from around the world egyptian president elect mohamed morsi will officially be sworn an onset of the day after he rallied a massive crowd in cairo where he promised to fight the ruling military council which recently changed the constitution to weaken presidential powers transferring 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. 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 the prime target of al qaeda terrorists in the country june 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 long as spiders with ties to al qaida are claiming control over the northern desert region of mali a day after clashes killed more than twenty people militants patrolled the streets on friday detaining civilians and forcing former two iraqi allies out of the town of mali's army struggling to reorganize following a coup in march which started the country's current unrest to read rebels and islamist militants seized control of the north in a fast moving offensive shortly after the military takeover. now the us has the highest rate of obesity in the world with almost a third of the population classified as dangerously overweight yet despite more knowledge of the harmful effects of unhealthy eating america's waistline keeps

growing the resident is a new york choying the fat people on the battle of the bulge. 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 well to do this to even the cost of an early death yeah but nobody thinks because we don't do enough exercise and week 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 it 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 around spreading it around the population enough so that's why we still enjoy things like fast food just because a lot of people are still ignorant to how bad it really is or what the calories are 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 might think. there's a levy on each effect 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 a try. causes of natural selection that if people are going to make bad choices they're going to die earlier and that's the way it should be going 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 societies waste or bottom line. of brain stuff they'd hear on r.t. all the back shortly would have line stay with us.

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