major world powers throw their diplomatic weight behind attempts to end the drawn out crisis in syria all amid reports the country is being surrounded by foreign and military forces. as the german parliament rubber stamps the euro zone's massive bailout cash party disillusioned italians turn to comedians for leadership. and the homosexual community in russia fighting a new law targeting so-called gay propaganda they say is just one step away from lowering same sex relations. thanks for joining us here on r.t.

today receive shed live in moscow the world's main powers are making a desperate diplomatic attempts to break the impasse in syria which has seen no letup in sixteen months of violence despite deep divisions at the crisis conference in geneva moscow has voiced slim hopes that the talks may be getting things moving you're going to spin off is there for us right now joining us live on the program here good it's being called a crisis conference by many it's hardly surprising when we you consider the reports that turkey is possibly amassing a military hardware on the northern border with syria and unsubstantiated reports that saudi arabia is also moving now to the southern border with its own military hardware certainly reaching a critical juncture he wouldn't you say. rory this is quite troubling information and indeed this meeting here in geneva could very well be one of the last remaining chances for the international community to help solve this problem in fact. if you

are a new un special envoy has just said that any further deaths in syria will be the responsibility of world powers if we fail here since the violence has been continuing and something in needs to be done despite all the previous discussions and arguments a little progress has been made and there are complications for instance even though some of the key global powers are taking part in this conference i mean the permanent five members of the un security council some countries who could also be helpful in the situation like iran for instance which is a very influential state in syria's neighborhood that country is not taking part in this meeting there's also a difference of approaches by several states like for instance to the united states which is pushing more for regime change was moscow is calling for equal pressure which needs to be applied on both sides of this conflict but despite these complications in order to prevent violence in syria from spilling out into the

entire region there are positive signals like the mood at this conference for instance and russia's foreign minister of syria level of did meet with the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton before the conference on friday in st petersburg and after that meeting he said that for the first time he didn't hear any ultimatums and it seems now that washington understands that ultimatums at this point what we help improve the situation that's why according to the russian foreign minister there is hope and some good chances that this meeting will lead to some progress when it's ok to have you there there's a crisis conference in geneva. thank you. meantime a political analyst i talked of benjamin baba says that a clash of international interests in syria could ultimately lead to a regional meltdown there's not even unity among the western allies in the nato allies and certainly there's not unity among the foreign powers overall you see

a series of somewhat rivaling conflicting interests it makes it extremely difficult and the real problem is here we've learned in libya that the price of military intervention is very very high and if i can just remind your viewers and listeners about the cost that we have paid in libya through a nato intervention originally entered into perhaps with some goodwill to prevent civilians from be massacred ended up first of all hurting damaging killing more civilians than anything that could off he had done and today leading to a situation of virtual tribal war clan war decentralization and the breakup of libya now imagine replicate that situation in a post interventionist stage in syria well as we were talking about moments ago here on our to saudi arabia is reporting to gearing up for military action against syria about some it claims the gulf state has already put the militants fighting the assad regime on its own payroll israel's news agency thought to have close

links with israeli intelligence says saudi troops are moving towards jordan all no way to syria's southeast border following developments in syria as if an option. gets an alarming reports on foreign troops being deployed ads all 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 they don't then ian and iraqi borders after king abdullah put the country's military on high alert for joining the uprising against president must. in syria it's reported that special units have tanks missiles 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 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 a 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 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. of course want to refresh my reporting there was always a more analysis and reaction to the developments in syria just log on to our

website dot com and also don't forget to check our correspondence twitter feeds a twenty four seven for the latest on the ongoing conflict. live from moscow this is r t the german parliament has approved the e.u.'s massive five hundred billion bailout fund down to ratify the new fiscal compact last night which limits spending deficit and that's as chancellor angela merkel finds herself on the back foot strongly rejecting notions that she somehow capitulated to the

financial demands of southern european nations that criticism is especially loud in germany where many see the new bank bailout program as simply too much and the mechanism that would allow brussels to bail out banks and using taxpayer money without even consulting governments but merkel says she surrendered nothing and that any bank rescue would come with harsh strings attached jack russell most a professor of political economy at us and mary's college in california says he's skeptical of these so-called breakthroughs. 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 longer run and what i see when the brussels in this growth package is 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 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 they sustained but the other is the economic crisis the real economy and of course we know that europe is rapidly is slipping into recession in various countries and as long as that growth there is not occur it's going to feed back and exacerbate both the banking and the sovereign debt crisis and one of the men credited with twisting merkel's arm into accepting the bank bailout program is a tally in prime minister mario monti but at home for him there's a seismic political shift going on with the old elite feeling the public backlash against austerity and even comedians and are proving successful alternatives to the current leadership and with this report the sarah. 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 paid. the latest character to still its least political spotlights almost 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 have been 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 lee 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 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 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 turnouts 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 olds they're trying to. very innovative themselves but they just are not able angrier. in this situation is moving like

a green. i mean because you can jump from an argument to another one and he's always winner 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 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 history 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 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 younger activist 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 a meekness 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 should 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 dim debts with its economy sinking for 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. well earlier this week a leading. british bank that of barclays found itself find almost three hundred

million pounds of rampant rate fixing in essence the bank manipulated figures relied on by the world's banking system in a bid to boost its own profits something our kaiser report with max and stacey took a very good note of a full program coming your way next hour here on r t for now though a brief preview. now you have bob diamond over apparently committing criminal fraud on his own bounty committing criminal fraud in a library market when there's plunder at the top and you systematically legitimize plunder as the main source of your economic activity as david cameron has done in the u.k. he's told european regulators look in the u.k. criminal plunder is the basis of our economy you can't put our bankers in jail because all we'd be left with are a bunch of marmite pots and some a limp dick has bands and so and it filters down to the rest of society but why i put other people in jail i mean i don't understand why put anyone in jail in in the u.k.

there is no standard of law there's absolutely no standard of law you can do any criminal action while the u.k. and he will be good jail if you're connected if you're part of the conspiracy or part of mafia. or you can catch the cause report later today here on r t for now whistleblower julian assange to remain ecuador's embassy in london into the decision on his asylum request is made he said he's studying after defying a british police demand to turn himself in to face extradition procedures the wiki leaks founder is wanted in sweden but he's afraid the u.s. will get him once he's there those fears were outlined in a statement read by his representative in front of the ecuadorian embassy on friday it said washington accuses him of espionage and has already assembled a grand jury despite no charges having been made retired cia officer remedy often says songes fears are quite justified. in our country. there is no law against publishing secrets it's pretty clear that there's

a lot 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 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 gyptian 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. don't forget that julian assange is hosting is an interview series here on see if you've missed any of the ten episodes

that have already ed they are still available in a special section of our website that has a song. i'm julian assange. it is true we're here where we expose the world secrets these jackets belong the united states government been attacked by the powerful united states strongly condemn going after. illegally shoot five hundred days now being detained without charge but that hasn't stopped. the day we're on a quest for revolutionary ideas that can change the world tomorrow. thanks for joining us here on our to today just a moment iran but for now russia's top human rights watchdog plans to revise a recent law against what's officially called gay propaganda in several cities a similar bill may soon be introduced nationwide lawmakers say the law is not

targeting homosexuality itself but a gay rights activists feel their community is being oppressed as artist area pushed reports. these two gangs 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 likely be punished by a new law adopted inside the russian cities it bans propaganda of lesbian from sexual bisexual relations and says gender is new to the hmong as the fines go up to seventeen thousand dollars a year of those. we are talking about the propaganda of same sex relations and the whole l.g.b. 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 and performances

as fashionable and up to date. but you have to understand we're not fighting against sexual. minority's the legislation is aimed at protecting children and the under-aged we're not meddling with anybody's private life here with how this is going to go to the rights activists say the normal lacks clarity and allows too much from a full interpretation by police which could see crackdowns any time in the community wants to highlight the prejudices they see you know also puts his propaganda of homosexuality on a par with people feeling which cadency if you spread those ignorance and aggressive homophobia there are more of them here with me at the new chill wards good enough that aims to exclude members of l g b t groups from any public activities and deprive us of the chance to lead the society know our needs and problems and equating yes to the pedophiles is just meant to defame us i knew 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 an atrocious law that would be telling us we are worse than other people. i think our society is not death or it is but 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 a high risk charity 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 gay parades in russia if not for 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 yeah 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. r.t. moscow of course there always are many more stories available for you on our website our to talk column including for example other u.s. military base hit by a sex abuse scandal investigation finds thirty one female cadets were sexually assaulted by their superiors raising concerns over the safety of women in america's

armed forces. also online find out about her plans to launch a new telescope to keep an eye on asteroids which might pose a danger to us but those details have much more on our website. just a moment on the anti world update for now though there is just a day to go before a full go on iranian crude exports over to iran's 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 as follows waivers to more than a dozen other countries almost all of iran's known european violence.

says that these measures never achieve what it meant to and instead they just end up hurting the most. 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've 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 we're really feeing 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 for a time for the outside world up that here for you will start with west africa it's where it is the most so occupying bodies of northern desert region have destroyed you know holy sites in the city of tim buck two it comes amid conflict between competing rebel groups in the west african nation islamist fighters with ties to al-qaeda. say they're in control of the northern half of the country after driving out ethnic to erect separatists on thursday twenty one were killed in clashes. mohamed morsi has been sworn in as the new president of egypt after taking the official oath of office he's egypt's first elected leader since the fall of hosni mubarak on friday he rallied crowds in cairo's to rear square and promised to stand up against the ruling military council huge protests have been demanding a complete power handover by the military since the toppling of the mubarak regime . now the u.s.

is facing a growing problem with almost a third of its population classed as overweight so the highest rate of obesity in the entire world despite more awareness than ever about the harmful effects of unhealthy eating. is in new york asking what needs to be done to help people slim down and shape up. 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 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

a fortitude to follow through that's what it is now but the big 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 that 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 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 as waste or bottom line. just a moment with a recap off that lights. on

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