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moscow with you twenty four hours a day the world's major world powers i should say the world's major powers have agreed on a true transitional roadmap for syria which they say will allow syrians to determine their own future without interference following a crisis meeting in geneva russia's foreign minister said the document contains no ultimatums and includes representatives from all sides of the political divide and that's exactly what russia has been pushing for going to is going to have has more . they didn't manage to agree on a new plan of the transition plan as it's called the powers which do include the united states and russia wish that in principle we consider it of the utmost importance that this document does not seek to dictate to the syrian side how the transitional process should happen politically how exactly this process will take place is up to the syrian people this document is very precise and. there are no more preconditions and no all too many times voiced here and actually as foreign

minister sergei lavrov said those were some of the more stumbling points during the in a sense previously some of the outside where's outside of syria of course as they're called did call upon some preconditions such as the immediate step down of president assad now powers have agreed that it is strictly up to the syrian people to decide whether they do want to see president assad in power or not or all the outside players the world trying to to apply pressure on them equally in order to get them to the peaceful negotiating table and to build this transitional government which should also include all sides of the conflict both from the authorities and from the rebels and it is planned that this transitional government will have full governing power. europe is going over there well while the diplomats

have been talking in geneva the fighting inside syria has carried on regardless of who is following the latest developments from the capital damascus 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 experiences 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 saudia rabbit ear that it is preparing 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 are hearing all this just days after president bashar al assad has said that the country is now in a real state of war and has warned any foreign nation from interfering into syria's internal affairs even allies and has promised to fight the terrorism till the very very end. of their well let's get more perspective on the outcome of this geneva gathering patrick nixon is associate editor of independent news website in for was dot com joining me live now. this new transitional player does not demand assad to resign but if as washington says the regime is behind the bloodshed is that a justified position to take. well washington's position is a kind of non-negotiable position this is

a similar position that israel for instance would take in the palestinian peace agreement where they just bury their feet right there in the ground and say we're not budging we're not going to have any variations from what we want from the plan so far as negotiations go this geneva meeting so far it looks like they're just going through the motions in other words washington and london and their allies in the gulf states are being seen to look as if they're trying to negotiate a peace settlement but what's really happening is they've been the west has been backing the rebels the whole way along from over a year ago so to destabilize syria and get to this point in history so what's going to come after this most people who saw what happened in libya two thousand and eleven give you an idea of where syria's heading right now but we have to go to the fact that the u.s. and its allies have indeed compromised with russia and accepted the plan that excludes a direct reference to

a sad stepping down something russia has been calling on for a long time now but that is a compromise in that short a step in the right direction isn't it. yeah it is that that's a positive step but also we have to look over statements from the syrian government assad has said on iranian television that syria will not accept under any conditions any kind of plan that is non syrian and non-national in other words he is what is sought is done there you've given you a hint in the media as to what the west plans are for syria ideally they would like to break the country up into separate regions and to balkanize that country for many reasons energy pipeline project coming out of could talk for one and there's other reasons as well as far as border disputes and territorial disputes with turkey and also to minimize russia's influence not just going to talk to but overall in the coastal region but it's all very well to come up with

a plan to create a transitional government but bearing in mind that the country is torn apart at the moment is it in any position whatsoever to do that without outside help or some form of mediation. well bill like i said before the beginning of this segment i believe this geneva meeting is set up to fail for the very reasons you just mentioned right there right now is this meeting is going on geneva the west are backing a proxy guerilla army so foreign fighters who are getting refuge in countries like turkey over the border or syria cannot and all of this if this was happening in canada over the canadian border with the united states they would not be sitting down in geneva talking about it i think that's quite clear so again we have to start the rules in the international community we have one set of rules for the nato countries and for israel and we have another set of rules for anybody else that doesn't fall within those bounds and that's exactly what you're seeing here i don't have very positive prospects for geneva you but why then would the

international community really want to risk those serious implications if we see further collapse within syria and of course the impact it has beyond syria's he meant you not i mean still many people don't understand why the international community would want that because it is a serious implication isn't it now. it is you know the international community in terms of we're talking about citizens in democratic countries fellow man they could they shouldn't tolerate this however the international community when it comes to spoken of in the u.n. with western agents essentially like oh c.n.n. and banki moon they're saying that oh this conflict is very serious and has a very serious implications regionally and globally so we need to we need to stop this kofi and then has never sat down or spoken to a camera or in the media and censured and cited the u.s. and london and the other gulf states like guitar and saudi arabia what it's

essentially war crimes fomenting a civil war in another country with the implications you've mentioned there this is the pathway for washington and the new conservative elements and hillary clinton and also the globalists in europe this is their pathway to iran syria must fall in order for them to attack iran because they need to neutralize hizbollah in lebanon first otherwise israel in the united states cannot go in unilaterally on an attack and i read i'm afraid to say bill this is the master plan coming out of the pentagon coming out of these think tanks like building berg and the council on foreign relations and so forth i hate to say that is absolutely what is going on but it's not it's not a pretty picture stop addiction that patrick thank you very much and if you thought patrick and he's an associate editor of an independent you source info was dot com joining us live there in london thanks to time well for more analysis and reaction to the developments in syria can always log on to our web site r t don't come don't forget to check out our correspondents to defeat as well for all the latest on the

ongoing conflict and the assessment of course of that conference in geneva. the german parliament approved the use massive five hundred billion bailout fund and ratified the new fiscal compact last night which limits spending deficits that of the chancellor angela merkel finds itself 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 e.u.'s new bank bailout programs too much and mechanism would allow brussels to paying out

banks using a u. taxpayer money without consulting governments but not all says she surrendered nothing and that any bank rescue would come with harsh strings attached dotage rasmus 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 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 extreme 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 sustain but the other is the economic crisis the real economy and of course we know 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 in the sovereign debt crisis. one of the men credited with twisting merkel's arm into accepting the bank bailout program is italian 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 even comedians are proving successful alternatives to the current leadership on the surface reports that italy's economic situation it's no laughing matter that might come as some surprise that its former t.v. comedian. the latest character to still italy's political spotlight as the euro crisis continues 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 they could alone 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 monti to say far failed to do they're always bringing about young people but young people are not really represented in the stone thing goes off people in government. trades very often. old people reach. down to the right feeling of what you see 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 the only reason 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'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 to the shop. it is just that are not realizing that. things are changing so quickly and they are always always there trying to. bring over a themselves but they just are not able and very low 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 he's an elected government trying to stay out of the financial storm the question on everybody's lips does but he made less than that

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 palm a very 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 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 formally dispels by the own going quite safe i mean 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. if it's going to survive.

we need a big change i think 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 debt with its economy thinking of the euro project might now seem to many like a bad shake and it's one that left us all wondering just what the punch line will be. but in 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 max and stacy in the car is a reporter angry about their food program coming your way in about fifteen minutes from now in the meantime here's a brief preview. yeah bob diamond are 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 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 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 is no standard of law there's absolutely no standard of law you can do any criminal action in what u.k. and he will be put in jail if you're connected if you're part of conspiracy or part of mafia. the u.s. is cutting its presence in iraq removing about a third of its diplomatic stuff but it plans to spend around one hundred million dollars upgrading the forty five and a c. compound in baghdad former u.s.

diplomat george kennedy says this kind of spending damages america's national image while feeding taxpayer money to greedy contractors. it's approaching the billion or maybe over a billion dollars now that was spent on this compound in baghdad 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 looked looked

back upon as a bad joke. and you can find this in other stories online and on t. don't come also available for you the u.s. military base hit by a sex abuse scandal an investigation finds thirty one female cadets for sexually assaulted by their superiors raising concerns over the safety of women in america's forces. and also online find out about plans to launch a new telescope to keep an eye on asteroids which might pose a danger well the details are much more n t v dot com. despite america's sanctions and the looming e.u. embargo iran is boasting that its easily selling its oil a news report in the country suggests that's mainly thanks to sanction waivers

handed out by washington the us is going to china and singapore last minute exemptions from financial penalties for iranian oil for those earlier waves to more than a dozen other countries almost all of iran's norm european clients going to this bit of a story he says that these measures never achieve what they meant to and instead just the most. the sort of stated objective of both the united states and the european union and 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 or burden of what the sanctions are actually doing it's really about 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 what we're really seeing 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. now quit look at some other stories making headlines around the world armed islamists occupying mali northern desert region of destroyed unesco holy sites in the city of timbuktu it comes amid conflict between competing rebel groups in the west african nation islam is fighters with ties to al qaeda say they're in control of the northern half of the country after driving up ethnic towards separatists on thursday twenty one people 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 leaders since the fall of hosni mubarak on friday he rallied crowds and cars to 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 mubarak regime . 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 low houses 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 i think that most of it is better to see your coach sleeping through alternate history even than 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 is meant but the big one. 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 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 it a personal responsibility thing for people to take care of themselves both i think as well 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 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. well that's what looks at the moment here in r.t.r. got an update preview of the latest headlines coming up very shortly stay with us live this is altie in moscow.

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