major world powers throw their diplomatic weight behind attempts to end the drawn out crisis in syria amid reports the country is being surrounded by foreign military forces. the german parliament brother stance the euro zone's massive bailout cashpoint disillusioned italians turn to comedians for leadership. and american troops might be out of iraq but the money is flowing in washington plans upgrades worth one hundred million dollars towards baghdad embassy despite cutting a third of its diplomatic staff. one line on the screen international news and comment live from our new center here moscow within twenty four hours a day the world's main powers are making desperate diplomatic attempts to break the

impasse in syria which is seen no letup in sixteen months of violence but we can now go live to geneva the dish a special envoy that is getting a statement following a major international meeting on how to end the syrian crisis let's have a listen to what he has a commitment to accountability and national reconciliation if it is for the people of syria to come to a political agreement but time is running out we need his steps to richard dream the conflict must be resolved through peaceful dialogue and negotiation a load conditions conducive to a political settlement must now be put in place. the bloodshed must end. and the purchase must be prepared to put forward effective interlocutors to work with me toward a syrian led settlement the international community this ready to offer significant

support for the implementation of an agreement reached by the parties the action group members will engage a separate and apply joint and certain pressure on the power to sit in syria to implement what we have discussed and there are opposed to any further militarization of the conflict there wolf support me fully as i say immediately engage the government and the opposition and consoled widely with syrian society as well as other international actors to further develop the way forward i would work very closely with them and key and keep the united nations and the league of arab states involved in that action group i splurged

action and they are sending a message of determination and hope but today's words must not become tomorrow's disappointments the hard work starts now but we must work together to implement what has been agreed we cannot do this alone i hope all in syria will embrace what has been laid out here and work with us to stop the killing and build a better future thank you. thank you. week to make it stick. listening. to the media by coffee and addressing the media there after that meeting that international meeting in geneva on how to resolve the

crisis in syria has now ended we hope to hear from the russian foreign minister a little later when he addresses the media as we can see. william hague is addressing the conference at the moment and we'll also hear from our correspondent got a piskun of who's in geneva so we're keeping across developments there as that meeting has now ended in geneva now israel's dead news agency thought to have close links with israeli intelligence says that saudi troops are moving towards jordan on their way to syria's border that's as turkish forces have already occupied the northern frontier and political analyst says that these states will face stumbling blocks if they do try to invade syria you know the russians and the chinese are saying you know enough is enough you cannot dictate world politics like this and go into war through proxies now we're hearing that the saudis are sending some forces obviously the jihad is all over the place and the turks are actually sending some forces to the syrian border and you cannot you cannot control that the. piece of the world

or piece order of the world at your behest without you know being accountable to the and i think what we're emerge of this geneva meeting is a new sort of world order where you know the western powers would admit that they cannot take things like what they have been doing so far and we've heard so far some statements like from the british. foreign minister william hague he says you know it's very hard to convince the russians for example and we don't know if this is going to be possible or not and they're starting to admit that they can influence things less now than they have been able to do so a year ago it was specially when libya happened. well after weeks of fierce clashes with rebel fighters syrian government troops have regained control over the town of doomer on the outskirts of damascus artie's more financial is following the latest developments from the capital. while world powers meet in geneva to try to hammer

out a solution to the ongoing crisis here in syria things on the ground unfortunately remain very tense and very complicated the clashes between the syrian army and the rebels have been escalating all over the country but the fear is fighting has happened in the valley of suburbs and villages on the eastern outskirts of the capital damascus some ten to fourteen kilometers from where i am right now this direction from time to time we even can see black smoke coming out from from that place the most fierce clashes have. taken place in the area known as duma it's been one of the opposition strongholds since the beginning of the uprising the source constant source of troubles in sixteen months over crisis it's been off to the governmental control many times but it's never lasted long because the rebels have always been very quick to take it over again some ten days ago the syrian army launched yet another offensive on these territories in order to regain control and

we are hearing that tang's armored vehicles and even helicopters have been taking part in this operation and now we're hearing from activists that the army has finally managed to redeem control over duma syria has a very strong army and many ask the question why it took so long for one of the best armed forces in the world to take control over this relatively small territory experiencer saying that the right least two reasons behind that the first is that the army has been trying to avoid casualties among civilian people another reason is that the rebels have been gaining massive support from foreign nations we've been hearing recently a lot about increased for weapons smuggled through the borders of the syrian borders especially in the north of the country through the turkish syrian border just two days ago we've been hearing from saudi a rabbit that it is prepare. to pay salaries to the free syrian army members to

encourage more defections from the syrian army and to support the uprising against president bashar al assad we're hearing all this just days after president bashar al assad has said that the country is now in a real state a war and has warned any foreign nation from interfering into syria's internal affairs even allies and has promised to fight the terrorism to the very very end. well for more analysis and reaction to developments in syria and of course more on the international meeting in geneva simply log on to our website or to dot com also don't forget to check out our correspondents twitter feeds for all the latest on the ongoing conflict. if. he is he is if he comes. to.

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i. know me very lightly. i. thought you live here in moscow eleven minutes past the hour now the german parliament has approved the e.u.'s massive five hundred billion bailout fund and ratified the new fiscal compact last night which limits spending deficits that as the chancellor angela merkel finds herself on the back foot strongly rejecting notions that she somehow capitulated to the fine outre demands of southern european nations well that criticism is especially loud in germany when many see the use new bank bailout program as too much mechanism and now brussels to bail out banks using e.u. taxpayer money without consulting the governments and local says she surrendered nothing and that any bank rescue would come with harsh strings attached to jack resinous professor of political economy at some mary's college in california says

he is 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 in the longer run and what i see when brussels and this growth pact is it's very much tokenism at this quite that 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 things in one three dimensions and one is the sovereign debt crisis another is the banking crisis which is becoming more visible and they sustained but the other is the economic crisis the really kanani 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. one of the men credited with twisting merkel's arm into accepting the bank bailout program is the italian prime minister mario monti but at home for him there's a seismic political shift going on with the old and weak feeling the public backlash against the starting and even comedians approving successful attentive to the current leadership ati's cerified. on that italy's 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 italy's political spotlight almost as a hero in crisis continue voters have become increasingly disillusioned with mainstream politics and a radical a populist breed and grassroots movements such as youth organization the rainbow have been growing in force and popularity that take 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 representative of the strong thing goes off people in government and trades are a very often. old people which. don't add to the right feeling of what you should really happening in the county we're trying to make you to change that's the point you have tried with some kind of policies which is merely bodies and policy he wants 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 that are not realizing that. things are changing so quickly and they are all old they're trying to. very innovative themselves but they just they're not able and really. in this situation is is moving like a green. i mean because it can jump from an argument to another one and it's always winner currently in a status suspended democracy unelected government trying to stay out of the financial storm the question on everybody's lips does but me stand a 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 significant city in italy and other places and i think he's filled a vacuum and so the parties on the right i'm a left the democratic party the party of a 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 young activists who are fed up with italy's preschool class and it's not just the populations of greece spain and france have seen 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. if it's going to survive. we need a big change could 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 might 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 bring sir for our thing. only this week a leading british bank 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 and that's something that max and stacy in the report and angry about the full program coming your way at nine hundred thirty g.m.t. here's a preview. now you have bob diamond over barclays committing criminal fraud on his own bounty committing criminal fraud in the library market when there's plunder at the top and you systematically legitimize plunder as the main source of 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 bends 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 standard of law you can do any criminal action you want you k. and you will be put in jail if you're connected if you're part of conspiracy you're part of mafia. because a report coming your way and it'll need to hang on the u.s. is cutting its presence in iraq removing about a third of its diplomatic staff but it plans to spend around one hundred million dollars upgrading the forty five embassy compound in baghdad former u.s. diplomat george kenney says this kind of spending damages america's national image well feeding taxpayer money to greedy contractors. it's approaching a billion or maybe over a billion dollars now that was spent on this compound in baghdad for for no evident

purpose other than perhaps to enrich the contractors. and the politicians who are being paid off but if someone asked me what is the purpose of this facility i'd have to say well that there really isn't one it's a symbol more of american decline than it is of american power but it's not just about iraq it's about projecting power in the region and you have to ask in the old days american embassies were relatively modest affairs they were open they tried to project a sense of american idealism of democracy and so forth now we're building these enormous fortresses that ultimately of course will be abandoned and look look back upon as a bad joke. despite american sanctions and a looming e.u. embargo iran is boasting that it's easily selling its oil a news report broadcast in the country suggest that's many thanks to sanction

waivers handed out by washington the u.s. has gone to china and singapore last minute exemptions from financial penalties for buying iranian oil this fall as earlier waves to more than a dozen other countries almost all of iran's european clients and activists but a must if he says that these measures never achieve what they meant to 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've really seen both historically when we look at iraq as well as now is that the iranian government itself bears little to no brunch or burden of what the sanctions are actually doing it's really the people that feel the biggest burden iran now is faced with it extremely high some say twenty some go

up to sixty percent of an inflation rate in the country so we're really seeing and terms of the effect of these sanctions is not so much the state players and how they're affected but how ordinary people inside iran are actually getting affected by these policies. no look at some other stories making headlines around the world in our world update on the soccer pileup is more than does a region of destroyed unesco holy sites in the city of timbuktu it comes amid conflict between competing rebel groups in the west african nation of islam is fighters with ties to al qaeda in control of the northern half of the country after driving out ethnic tajiks separatists on thursday twenty one people were killed in clashes. hard morsy has been sworn in as the new president of egypt after taking the official oath of office is egypt's first elected leader since the fall of hosni mubarak on friday he rallied crowds and told his 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 regime. we've been reporting this hour here on r.t. the world's main powers are making desperate diplomatic attempts to break the impasse in syria which has seen no letup in sixteen months of violence we can now go live to geneva where we have seen the special envoy kofi annan giving a news conference a little earlier that so obviously following this major international meeting on how to end the syrian crisis he was addressing the media a little and now it seems that he's also giving yet another press conference and we do hope to hear from russia's foreign minister lavrov a little later don't forget that you can watch this news conference that's happening right now on our web site on t v dot com and we hope to hear from our correspondents a little later. he is there in geneva following the events and. hopefully

assess the outcome of this international meeting in geneva in the next half. an hour to do stay with us let's just remind you all that available right now though on our website dot com also online at the moment should you log on to the u.s. military. base hit by a sex abuse scandal an investigation finds thirty one female cadets were sexually assaulted by their superiors raising concerns over the safety of women in america's armed forces and also online at the moment find out about plans to launch a new telescope to keep an eye on asteroids which might pose a danger to us all the details and much more at r.t. dot com. the u.s. is facing a growing problem with almost

a third of its population classed as overweight it's got the highest rate of obesity in the world despite more awareness than ever about the harmful effects of unhealthy eating or health 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 hey think we're just lazy i think that most of it is better to see your coach sleeping the wall to the studio 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 take one. 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 and we're not spreading it around the population enough to 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 over 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 mark for example 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 process 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 going so well. they're 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 ways or bad my. well as the way it looks at the moment here in our two you have got an update of the latest headlines coming up very shortly stay with us live this is all to you in moscow.

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