major international players are. desperately seeking a plan to syria's. mobilizing forces towards the syrian border. julian. cook at the ecuadorian embassy in london decision on his asylum request is made declining to comply with a demand from british police to surrender extradition to sweden. and german chancellor angela merkel. deal to help struggling but there is skepticism the measure will score problems crisis.

it is a pleasure to have you with us here on our to today. and life in moscow major world and regional powers all meeting in geneva right now to try and map out a strategy to end the bloody sixteen month old conflict ongoing in syria deep divisions between nations russia has said there is a good chance to forge some common ground for joining us now live from geneva this can offer good to see you today you what about twenty hours or so the russian foreign minister was meeting with hillary clinton in to discuss this this issue of syria then he jets to geneva i understand you were actually on the plane with. any sense of the atmosphere. well that's right a lot of things are happening and while there are big hopes that this meeting should lead to the international community being able to reach some sort of a joint understanding

a mutual position on the conflict in syria and sure there are disagreements and we were on the plane with the russian foreign minister sergei a lot of he did outline some of the key issues that moscow doesn't agree with such as any preconditions including the one for president assad to step down or any outside intervention interference into the situation there apart from equal pressure we should be applied on both sides of the conflict by all outside players and also the these sides of the conflict themselves have to put their weapons down simultaneously and as soon as possible in order to create a balance conditions for peaceful negotiations so like i said there are disagreements but work isn't progress and foreign minister lavrov has already met with the u.n. special envoy kofi annan upon his request like you said he's already met with the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton on friday in st petersburg and actually after that meeting the russian foreign minister said that it seems washington now understands that any ultimatums at this point won't help the situation at all and

actually said that there are good chances that this particularly meeting in geneva will lead to some progress when do you go to you talk about the issue of no ultimatums being accepted here but in just a moment i've got details about the possibility of international troops are massing on syria's borders r.t. if you got president in geneva to keep us posted thank you. well as i was getting into their israel's dept news agency i thought to have close links with mossad is now reporting that saudi arabia has started to move troops towards neighboring jordan to mass them on syria's southeastern border that turkish forces gathered on the northern syrian front here following the recent downing of a military jet by damascus artie's marie phenomena is following developments in the syrian capital. we're gets an 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 israel 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 it's reported that 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 over there a result 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 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 following in the darwinian 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 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 too and we've been getting reports of increased number of casualties from both warring sides i'm from both military and civilian. national reporting right that all these military maneuvers by the saudis of syria's border come as no coincidence

to view with the coming of a middle east reporter for the center for research on globalization. you don't will you know your national armies in two separate countries just by chance this is very much a coordinated effort by turkey and saudi arabia to pressure on the regime yes the government saudi arabia turkey among other countries and the need to members have been waging a war in syria for the last fifteen months and it's at a company out of terror or ism and subversion there's this continued documented links to with the states to the mercenaries only growing these people are playing with fire there is no doubt about it at the minute i would say it's a sign up to operation around and the pressure on the. government but it could it could precipitate it a war we really want and i fancy here. more analysis and reaction to developments

in syria just log on to our website dots he told com also don't forget to check out our correspondence twits for the latest on this ongoing conflict. live from moscow this is julian assange will remain the ecuadorian embassy in london until a decision on his asylum bed is made he said he's staying put off the defying a british police demond to tun himself in to face extradition procedures trying to escape being handed over to sweden claiming the u.s. will get its hands on him one sees that. retired cia officer ray mcgovern says all

quite justified country there is no law against publishing secrets it's pretty clear that there's a lot of diapering 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 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 chip 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 and was treated to and that as you know the un route

through a cold. conditions equivalent to torture. thanks for joining us here on the program on r t still ahead for you to come out of one day away with a full. of one iranian crude exports are set to go into effect we look at what these sanctions actually accomplish and who they end up hurting the most. fines for their sexuality a new lore and several russian cities has many from the homosexual community fearing even more ignorant than disagreement. now german chancellor angela merkel has told her country's lawmakers 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 to funnel money directly to struggling financial institutions for the first time the

largest economy has strongly opposed this option but was forced to give in after insistence from spain and italy the german parliament also approved the so-called fiscal pact which sets even tougher budget rules for euro zone nations dr jacques rasmussen a professor of political economy at some mary's college in california says the measures which e.u. leaders hailed as a quote breakthrough will not 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 the in the longer run and what i see when brussels and this growth pact is it's very much tokenism at this quite they're just moving money around from the european investment bank and so forth and the amount is grossly insufficient to stimulate growth so that whole picture has to be further developed the euro crisis is really three crisis things in one three dimensions and one is the sovereign debt crisis another is the banking crisis which is becoming more visible

and they sustain but the other is the economic crisis the real economy 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 well italy has been in the eye of the eurozone storm for weeks now and while prime minister mario monti may have return 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 with alternative political forces gaining popularity as a thesis arafat reports some people seemingly would rather trust a comic than their own prime minister. that italy's economic situation is no laughing matter so it might come as some surprise that it's full of a t.v. comedian that take

a piece the latest character to still italy's political spotlight almost as here in crisis continue voters have become increasingly disillusioned with mainstream politics and a radical a populist bridge and grassroots movement such as youth organization the right has been growing in force and popularity that fake willow and his five star movement now thrive online shunning traditional media and gaining huge respect with its 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 the stone thing goes off people in government and 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 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 are trying to. very innovative themselves but they just are not able angrier. in this situation is moving like agree. i mean because you can jump from an argument to another one and he's always winner currently in

a status 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 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. 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 that seem formally dispels by the own going quite if 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. it is going to survive. we need a big change should it now be its 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 my it 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 while being there for our thing. later today here on r.t. my scars are a. dig deeper into the financial woes of the e.u. and further afield globally ultimately exposing those who are making things even

worse. this is artsy russia's top human rights watchdog is planning to revise 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 the lawmakers say they are not fighting against homosexuality gay rights activists say the measures will make their community more isolated than ever artie's the area pushed over 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 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 t.v. and our performances as fashionable 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 or what the. gay rights activists say the law lacks clarity and allows too much work for interpretation by police which could see credit down any time with the community wants to highlight the prejudices they see below also quotes him

propaganda as homosexuality on a par with peta feely or which gay groups here will spread those ignorance and aggressive homophobia there are more problems with. it 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 on in money in the me have been together for over two years but believe me 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. here. i think our society 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. but tolerance to the same sex relations in russia is far from high but i was a child 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 half of russians think that gays and lesbians don't deserve the same rights as the rest of society. 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 those lesbians never seen one but i'm strongly

against them and i'm so tired of those years of living and pretending i don't exist or that i do but not the way that you would like me to be. arty moscow. while there are always many more stories available for you at r.t. dot com including for example the twitter taking a stand against so-called internet trolls anonymous profile with no picture or personal information could be blocked from tweeting in order to stamp out hate messages. plus for him state duma considers plans to label n.g.o.s that receive funding from the board as foreign agents therefore having to disclose their full activities to the public.

live from moscow this is r t just a moment on the world update but for now there is just a day to go before a full e.u. embargo one iranian crude exports over to iran's nuclear program takes effect but says america's latest set of sanctions kicked in on friday the u.s. however has granted china and singapore last minute exemptions from financial penalties for buying iranian oil as follows earlier waivers to more than a dozen other countries which include japan india. but unlike most of them china has always been opposed to u.s. unilateral sanctions on iran lawyer and activist but it must offer 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 as 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 seen both historically when we look at iraq as well as now is that the iranian government itself bears little to no branch roberta and 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 of the 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. before we get to iraq we'll start the day with news from egypt it's where the egyptian president elect obama morsi is at the country's highest court for a swearing in ceremony it's a day after he rallied a massive crowd in cairo's tahrir square promising to fight the ruling military council which recently changed the constitution to weaken presidential powers

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 morsy is egypt's 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 and the explosives were planted on motorcycles and went off all within minutes of each other the area is predominantly shiite the prime target of al qaeda terrorists in the country in june has been one of the deadliest months in iraq since u.s. troops left in december with attacks killing more than two hundred. in west africa islamist fighters with ties to al qaeda claiming to troll over the northern desert region of mali it's just a day after clashes killed twenty militants the streets on friday detaining civilians and forcing former allies out of the town of. struggling to reorganize

following a coup in march which started the country's current on to a reg rebels and is the most militant both to seize control of the north and a fast moving offensive shortly after the military take. the us has the highest rate of obesity in the world with almost a third of the population classified as dangerously overweight it despite more knowledge of the harmful effects of on healthy eating america's waistline keeps on growing the president is in new york chewing the fat with the 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 who are too lazy hey think we're just lazy i think that most of it is better to see your coach

sleeping doing. even the cost of an early death yeah but nobody thinks about that 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 intestinal fortitude to follow through that's what is meant but the big one pathetic 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 we're not 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 of how bad it really is or 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 send in my face. 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. 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 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.

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