major international players are. desperately seeking a plan to. saudi arabia. towards the syrian border. push the ecuadorian embassy in london and decision is made on his asylum request to comply with a demand from british police to surrender extradition to sweden. and german chancellor angela merkel defends. deal to help struggling but there is skepticism the measure will solve the. debt crisis.

a very warm welcome to you from all of us here in moscow. major world and regional powers are meeting in geneva to try and map out a strategy to end the bloody sixteen month old conflict in syria amid deep divisions between nations russia has said there is perhaps a good chance to forge some common ground reporting from geneva. 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 said again 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 are part from equal

pressure we should be applied on both sides of the conflict by all outside players and also these sides of the conflict themselves have to put their weapons down simultaneously and as soon as possible in order to create balance conditions for peaceful negotiations so like i said there are disagreements but work is in progress and foreign minister lavrov 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 leads to some progress. of his kind of reporting in the meantime israel's deputy news agency thought to have close links with my saad is now reporting that saudi arabia has started to move troops towards neighboring jordan to mass them on

syria's southeastern border turkish forces gathered on the northern syrian frontier following the downing of a military jet by damascus of for a week ago following developments in the syrian capital is on to use more if the national. 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 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 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 to we're hearing this it means 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 a little ations between the two neighbors deteriorated dramatically they didn't manage to agree on how and where exactly the fighter jet was he'd be 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 to and we've been getting reports of increased number of casualties from both warring sides i'm from both military and civilians. one of our if a national reporting symbol ten years military maneuvers by the saudis. syria's border and no coincidence the view of many and coming i'm a middle east reporter for the center for globalization. you don't have you know your national armies in two separate countries and just by chance this is very much it needed effort by turkey and saudi arabia to pressure on the assad regime yes a government saudi arabia turkey among other countries and the need to members have been reading a covert war in syria for the last fifteen months and it's a little like company out of terror or ism and subversion there's this kind of

documented links. 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 see around and put the pressure on the government but it could it could precipitate it and a war we really want and i fancy here. well for more analysis and reaction to developments in syria just log on to our web site www dot com also a tough to get to a check out our correspondents twitter feeds hole the very latest on the ongoing conflict.

live from moscow this is. julian assange will remain at the ecuadorian embassy in london until a decision on his asylum is made he said he's put off to defying a british police to monta turn himself into face extradition procedures such as trying to escape being handed over to sweden claiming the u.s. will get its hands on him once he's that other fears that were tied a cia officer ray mcgovern says all quite justified in our 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 shack 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 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 u.n. route through a cold. conditions equivalent to torture. you're watching on t.v. it's good to have you on the program with us today still ahead for you here just about one day away with a full e.u. embargo on iranian crude exports sec to go into effect really good what these sanctions actually accomplish and who they end up hurting the most. plus facing fines of sexuality the new law in several russian cities has many from the homosexual community fearing even more ignorance and discrimination.

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 that are somewhat in brussels including the decision to allow the european bailout fund to funnel money directly to struggling financial institutions this for the first time and the e.u. says the largest economy has strongly opposed this option it was forced to give in after an assistance from spain and italy the german parliament also approved the so-called fiscal pact which sets out a even tougher budget rules for eurozone nations. professor of political economy it's an mary's college in california says the measures which e.u. leaders hailed as a quote breakthrough will not solve the blocks core problems. about 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 looms in one three dimensions and one is the sovereign debt crisis another is the banking crisis which is becoming more visible and the sustained 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. and italy has been in the eye of the eurozone storm for weeks now and while prime minister marry a month he may have return from the e.u.

summit as a winner he's facing tough times ahead at home italians are becoming increasingly angry about the government's austerity push with alternative political forces gaining popularity and i thought he's terrified to report 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 of 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 breed 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 always bringing about young people but young people are not really represented in this don't think it goes off people in government and trades are a very often. old people which. don't have the right feeling of what you see really happening in the county we're trying to make you to europe change that's the point that you have tried with some kind of policies which is the only reason and policy if you want 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 he's moving like a green. i mean because he can jump from an argument to another one and he's always winner 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 me than the chance when next year's elections come around the parties are now taking very seriously because a couple weeks ago he won a 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 a 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. could 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 ongoing crisis and movements like the pirate party in germany and five star in italy are gaining solid ground as the eurozone state looks increasingly wobbly i think it's going to survive even if. it is going to survive. we need a big change could it now be its least form of 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 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 will be sarah for. today here on our team stacey herbert dig a bit deeper into financial woes in the e.u. and actually further afield globally expose those who are ultimately making things worse. quarter past the hour here in the russian capital thanks for joining us here on r.t. russia's top human rights watchdog is planning to revise recently introduced laws banning what lawmakers describe as quote 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 and gay rights activists say the measures will make their community more isolated than ever with this report artie's daria pushcart. 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 a year of the. 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 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 room for interpretation by police which could see crackdowns any time a gay community wants to highlight the prejudice a face of the law also puts him propaganda of homosexuality on a par with paedophilia which gay groups here will spread both ignorance and aggressive homophobia that i'm one of them to 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 and we on in might in the me have been together for over two years but

believe they had a family many would 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 an atrocious law that would be telling us we are worse than other people. i think our society not 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. but the tolerance to the same sex relations in russia is far from high was homosexual she 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 gay 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 all 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. any more stories available for you at r.t. dot com including twitter taking a stand against so-called internet trolls anonymous profiles with no picture or personal information could be blocked from tweeting in order to stamp out hate

messages. but the russian state duma considers plans to label n.g.o.s that receive funding from abroad as foreign agents disclosing their full activities to the public. just a couple of seconds or a couple of minutes i should say although he will drop it but for now there is just a day to go before a full e.u. embargo want to iranian crude exports over to wrongs nuclear program takes effect but as 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 exporters already a way was to run more than a dozen other countries which include japan. but unlike most of them china has

always been opposed to u.s. unilateral sanctions on iran boy it's become a stall says that such measures never achieve what they supposedly intended and ultimately instead just hurt the most vulnerable. the sort of stated objective of both the united states and the european union as in carrying out the 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 starting with egypt time for the all to you world update now mohamed morsi the new president of egypt to take the oath of the country's highest court you know. swearing in ceremony has been the case he's egypt's first democratically elected and islamist leader facing a power struggle against the ruling military council in control since last year's revolution morsi rallied a massive crowd in cairo's tahrir square a day earlier avowing to stand up to the generals protests have been demanding a complete power handover by the military since the toppling of the mubarak regime . 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 all within minutes of each other the area is predominantly shiite their prime target of al qaeda terrorists in the country has been one of the deadliest months in iraq since u.s. troops left in december with attacks killing more than two hundred. west africa fighters with ties to al qaeda a claim control over the desert region of mali the day after clashes killed twenty militants patrolled the streets on friday detaining civilians and forcing former tour reg allies out of the town of. models are struggling to reorganize following a coup in march the start of the country's current. two are a gravel zone as well as little since seized control of the north in a fast moving offensive shortly after the military. now the us has the highest rate of obesity in the world almost a third of the population is classified as dangerously overweight despite more

knowledge of the harmful effect of on healthy eating america's waistline keeps on growing the resident in new york is now are there to chew 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 is too lazy hey think we're just lazy i think that most of it is better to see your coach sleeping doing well to do the stuff even the cost of an early death yeah but nobody thinks about that because we don't do enough exercise and we 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 that make 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 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 that a personal responsibility thing for people to take care of themselves both i think it's both i think sinden might 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 a 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. it's a pleasure to have you with us here on r t for this saturday it will be back in just a moment with a recap of the headlines and then spotlight. that's

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