major international players are gathering in geneva desperately seeking a plan to and syria's watching as turkey and with portably saudi arabia are mobilizing forces towards the syrian border. join us ons will stay put add the quid or an embassy in london until a decision on his asylum request winding to comply with a demand from british police to rather for extradition to sweden. german chancellor angela merkel the fans at home and the e.u. deal to help struggling banks but there is skepticism the measure will solve the blocks or problems and debt crisis.

what you have to live from moscow this is r t a 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 amid deep divisions between nations russia's foreign minister says there's a good chance to forge common ground sergei lavrov was speaking after meeting u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton are just losing confidence 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. israel's def good news agency saudi half those links with mossad is reporting that saudi arabia has started to move troops towards neighboring jordan to mask them 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. is following developments in this year in 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 jordanian 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 better 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 to we're hearing this image 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 objects 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 of 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 i'm from both military and civilians very few national reporting there

simultaneous meldrum a new verse by the saudis and turks near syria's border are no coincidence and that's the view of. a middle east reporter for the center for research on globalization. you don't. 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 assad regime yes the government of saudi arabia. among other countries are. members of the coover or in styria for the last fifteen months and it's a normally come the end of terror there is a miniature version there is there's going to talk you did links to the with the states to the mercenaries when you grow and 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 in life and here. now for more analysis and reaction to developments in syria log on to our website r.t. dot com also don't forget to check out our correspondents twitter feeds for all the latest on the ongoing conflict. join us and will remain a door an embassy in london until a decision on his asylum bed is made he said he is staying put after 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 is there fears that the 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 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 two applicants for asylum to the tender mercies of the korean 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. route through a called. conditions equivalent to torture. they're watching our show live from moscow still ahead for you this hour one day away bargain to rein in crude axe words set to go into effect we'll look at what these sanctions actually accomplish and they end up hurting the most. plus a saying fines for their sexuality and new law in several russian cities as many from the homosexual community fearing even more ignorance and discrimination. admission of free accreditation free transport charges free arrangement free. free. two types of free.

download free broadcast quality video for your media projects and free video dog r.t. dot com. they've been living these who ancients the seventeenth century. clicked. their communities are isolated. they clearly missed english between their own and the alien. and guard their family and things treasure. german chancellor angela merkel has told her country's lawmakers that help for struggling even 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

final money directly to struggling financial institutions for the first time that he's largest economy have strongly opposed this option but it was forced to give in after insistence from spain and italy the german parliament also approved a so-called fiscal path which has even tougher a budget rules for eurozone nations dr jack russell is professor of political economy at say mary's college in california says the measures which evaders hailed as a breakthrough won't solve the blocks or 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 the in the longer run and what i see when the brussels end is growth is it is 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 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 sovereign debt crisis. italy has been in the eye of the eurozone storm for weeks now and while driving us there mario monti may have returned from the e.u. summit as a where he's facing tough times a home italians are becoming increasingly angry about the government's astaire to push with alternative political forces gaining popularity and it's already sarah for us reports some people seemingly would rather trust a comic and their prime minister. time 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 has continued voters have become increasingly disillusioned with mainstream politics and a radical a populist breed and grassroots movements such as youth organization the right 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 monti to say far failed to do they're all whispering about young people but young people are not really represented in these 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 reason 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 a decline 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 he's an elected government trying to stay out of the financial storm the question on everybody's lips does better. than the jones 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. 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 of 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 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 who seem

formally dispels by the own going quite if amusements 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 in secret now be it's least form a funny man he'll 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 debts 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 served our thing. later this hour max kaiser 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 the recently introduced laws banning what lawmakers describe as gay propaganda in 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 report. 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 homicide show bi sexual relations and transgenderism to the minors the fines go up to

seventeen thousand dollars a year of those. talking about the propaganda of same sex relations and the whole l.g.b. society of the book as lesbians homosexuals by search was in transgenders are often referred to their activities have developed a certain artistic and aesthetic style were promoted heavily on stage to be 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 life here what the how do you know gay 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 face yet i know also

puts his propaganda of homosexuality on a par with paedophilia which gay groups here will spread both ignorance and aggressive homophobia. about it 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 peril files is just meant to defame us i knew and then money in the may 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 couldn't 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 is not 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 here can be

tolerance to the same sex relations in russia is far from hide from such elegy 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. newspaper 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 all russians think that gays and lesbians don't deserve the same rights as the rest of society yes but you were do 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 a lesbian it's 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. r.t. moscow. well there's always more stories available for you at r.t. dot com including twitter taking a stand against so-called internet trolls on the profiles with no picture or personal information could be blocked from tweeting to stamp out 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 four activities to the public. now there is just a day to go before four embargo on iranian crude exports over to iran's nuclear program takes effect that's as america's latest set of sanctions kicked friday the

u.s. however has granted china and singapore a last minute examinations from financial penalties for buying iranian oil this follows 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 on the stuff he says that such measures never achieve what they supposedly intend to do 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 really feenan both historically when we look at iraq as well as now is that the iranian government itself bears little to no brunch 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 what we're really seeing and terms of the effect of these sanctions 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 is a look at some other stories from around the world egyptian president elect mohamed morsi will officially be sworn in on saturday day after he rallied a massive crowd in cairo stuff 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 morsi is it gets first islamised and civilian elected leader. at least eight people are dead and scores have been

wounded after three separate bombs exploded in central iraq explosives were planted on motorcycles and went off with the minutes of each other the area is predominantly shiite the prime target of al qaida 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 islamize fighters with time. still cod 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 toorak allies out of the town of guile is army is struggling to reorganize following a coup in march which started the country's current unrest to iraq rebels and islamic militants seized control of the north in a fast moving offensive shortly after the military takeover. 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 joining the fat with people on the battle of the belt. 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 i think we're just lazy but i think that most of it 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 we large portions are 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 an fortitude to follow

through that's what it is an apathetic one but i think i think even though our knowledge of science being 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 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 it's both i think sinden mark think. 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 a try. this is 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 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's waist or bottom line. friends have today here in r.t.l. be back shortly with headlines.

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