major world powers throw their diplomatic weight behind attempts to end the drawn out crisis in syria all amid reports the country now is being surrounded by foreign military forces. as the german parliament rubber stamps the euro zone's massive bailout cash disillusioned italians turn to comedians for leadership. and the homosexual community in a rush of a new law targeting so-called gay propaganda they say it's just one step away from outlawing same sex relations.

well why news around the clock this is r t with me rory sushant live in moscow the world's manpower's are making desperate diplomatic attempts to break the impasse in syria which has seen no letup in sixteen months of violence now despite despite a deep divisions at the crisis conference ongoing in geneva moscow has expressed little hope that the talks may actually get certain things moving. piskun off for us this could very well be one of the last remaining chances for the international community to help fix this problem before the violence in syria spills out into the entire region and the un special envoy kofi annan has warned that any further deaths in syria will be the responsibility of world powers if they feel here 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 u.n. 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 the 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 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. not easy going to school of reporting there well meantime a political analyst dr benjamin barber 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 in the real problem is here we've learned in libya that the price of military intervention is very very high end 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 now saudi arabia is reportedly gearing up for military action against syria it's all about claims to the gulf state has already put militants fighting the assad regime on its payroll israel's news agency thought to have close links with israeli intelligence says saudi troops are moving towards jordan on their way to syria's southeast border in syria following following developments is correspondent. gets an alarming reports on foreign troops being deployed at all headed towards the syrian borders from the north west and

south some regional media believed to have close ties with israeli intelligence reports heavy sounded troop movements towards they don't damian 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 missiles special forces and that's where he's on the plan is to and to do it and then move to one side. and then and to syria and established a security zone around towns over. and others known as the epicenter is over the uprising against the syrian regime western gulf sources also reporting that jordan is on more 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 the

darwinian over turkish jet by syria last friday liberal ations between the two neighbors deteriorated dramatically they didn't manage to agree on how and where exactly they fight it 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. reporting battle for more analysis and reaction to the developments in syria just log on to our web site. also don't forget to check out our correspondents twitter feeds for the latest on this ongoing escalating conflict .

it's good to have you with us here on r t today on rory sushant the german parliament has approved the use of five hundred billion barrels out fund and ratify the new fiscal compact last night which limits spending deficits it's all 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 but criticism is especially in doubt in germany where many see the e.u.'s new bank bailout program as simply too much like the mechanism would allow brussels to bail out banks using taxpayer money without even consulting governments but merkel says she surrendered nothing and that any bank rescue would come with some very harsh

strings attached dr jack russell professor of political economy at some 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 with the brussels in this growth package is that it's very much tokenism at risk why it's just moving money around from the european investment bank and so forth the near mount 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 song. 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 and various countries and as long as that growth does not occur it's going to feed back and exacerbate both the banking and the song and do the crisis. one of the men actually credited with twisting a merkel's arm into accepting the bank bailout program is a tiny and 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 are proving successful alternatives to the current leadership as r.t. sarah for three points that its leaves economic situation it's no laughing matter it might come as some surprise that it's full of a t.v. comedian that pay clearly the latest character to still its least political spotlight as the year in crisis is continued bates's have become increasingly disillusioned with mainstream politics is a radical the populist breed and grassroots movement such as youth organization and

the rains have been growing in force and popularity that baker and his five star movement now thrive online shunning traditional media and gaining sutured specked with its lead younger generation something that technocrat premier mary a monte has say far failed to do their always bring it about young people but the young people are not really represented in the snow goes off people in government and. trades are a very often. old people we. don't have the right feeding off what you see really happening in the county we're trying to make you do you don't change that's the poor. and there you have tried with some kind of policies which is the only reason the 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 it's not working with elections across europe

marked by a decline in turnout it leads recent local election results were longing 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 all told they are trying to. bring over a themselves but they just are not able and very low in this situation it is moving like a green. i mean because you can jump from an argument to another one and is always winner currently in a state a suspended democracy an elected government trying to stay out of the financial storm the question on everybody's lips does but a girl is made let's 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 in the. position in 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 his five star movement can become a political party and 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 italy the populations of greece spain and france have seen formally dispels by the ongoing crisis and movements like the pirate party and. amity and five star in italy are gaining solid ground as the year is in state looks increasingly wobbly i think it's going to survive even if. it's going to survive. we need to. see could it now be its least full the funnyman he'll

find a solution to the crisis it leaves no stranger to perform is 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 year i put checks might now seem to many like a bad cheikh and it's one that's left us all wondering just what the punch line will be so. it was just earlier this week that a leading british bank that of barclays found itself find almost three hundred million pounds for 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 that's something our kaiser report with max and stacey two very careful note of the full program coming your way in just about twenty minutes or an hour to you for another quick preview. so now you have bob

diamond over apparently committing criminal fraud on his own balance sheet 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 the 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 and in the u.k. there's no standard of law there's absolutely no stare of what you do any criminal actually what the u.k. and he would jail if you're connected if you're part. conspiracy report them up. you can watch the cars report about her sixteen minutes but for now whistleblower julian assange will remain at ecuador's embassy in london and to live decision on

his asylum request is made he said that he's staying even though he defied a british police demand to turn himself into 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 are 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 remick government says fears were quite justified. in our country there is no law against publishing secrets it's pretty clear that there's a lot of diaper and pretty for him to be tried under the very draconian espionage 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 chip shin 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 to forget the julian assange is hosting his own interview series exclusively on see if you've missed any of the ten episodes that have already gone to they are still available in a special section of all website that has a songe don't talk. i'm julian assange. it is true he reeks of expose the world secrets these jackets belong the united states

government been attacked by the powerful united states strongly condemn. illegally . five hundred days now being detained without charge but that hasn't stopped this . today we are on a quest for revolutionary ideas that can change the world tomorrow. this is our duty in a moment i'll be discussing iran but for now russia has a top human rights watchdog plans to revise their recent law against what's officially called gay propaganda in several cities a similar bill could actually be introduced nationwide lawmakers say the law is not targeting homosexuality itself but gay rights activists feel their community is being oppressed as artie's diary 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 single russian cities it bans propaganda of lesbian from sexual by sexual relations and transgenderism to the mind as the fines go up to seventeen thousand dollars a day of those. we are talking about the propaganda of same sex relations and the whole l g b t society as lesbians homosexuals by search was in transgenders are often referred to their activities have developed a certain artistic anesthetics style were promoted heavily on stage to be performances as fashionable and up to date. if anybody but 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 with how this is going to go to gay rights activists say the law lacks

clarity and allows too much truthful interpretation by police which could see crackdowns any time a gay community wants to highlight the prejudice a face below also puts his propaganda of homosexuality on a par with paedophilia which gay groups here will spread both ignorance and aggressive homophobia the more humble than he would be at the new chill wards 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 i know and then money in the me have been together for over two years but believe 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. 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. but tolerance to the same sex relations in russia is far from hi i was her 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 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 half of 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. arty moscow. and there always are more stories available of arts who don't call me including for example the u.s. military base hit by a sex abuse scandal an investigation finds thirty one female cadets sexually assaulted by their superiors are raising concerns over the safety of women in america's armed forces. also online find out about plans to launch a new telescope to keep an eye on the asteroids which might pose a danger to those details and much more at r.t. dot com.

it's good to have you with us here on r.t. today just a moment on the world cup diet there is not just a day to go before a full e.u. embargo 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 grown to china and singapore last minute exemptions from financial penalties for buying iranian oil as follows earlier waivers to more than a dozen other countries almost all of iran european clients lawyer doctor just a bit of a stuffy says that these measures never achieve what it meant to instead they just end up putting the most fun or. the sort of stated objective of both the united states and the european union as 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 or burden of what the sanctions are actually doing it's really the people that feel the biggest bird. and 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 fact. is not so much these state players and how they're a factor but how ordinary people inside iran are actually getting affected by these policies or before we get to egypt and the r.t. world all day it will start with the west african nation of mali islam is the occupying mollies northern desert region have now destroyed at unesco holy sites in the city of tim buck two it comes amid conflict between competing rebel groups in

the west african nation of islam is 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 twenty one killed to make conscious. mohamed morsi has been sworn in as the new president 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 rere 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 the highest rate of obesity in the world despite more awareness than ever about the harmful effects of unhealthy eating or how often ost 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 eating well to stick even at 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 is meant but the take one thing 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 out 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 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. back in just a moment with the headlines and the kaiser report. all .

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