major world powers agree a transitional plan for syria at a crisis meeting in geneva which rejects regime change and are now syrians to decide their own political future. as the german parliament rubber stamps the euro zone's massive bailout cash for disillusioned italians turn to comedians for leadership. and american troops might be out of iraq but the money is still flowing in washington plans upgrades one hundred million dollars to its baghdad embassy despite cutting a third of its diplomatic staff. and on screen international news and comment live from our new center here in moscow

twenty four hours a day the world's major powers have agreed on a transitional road map for syria which they say will allow syrians to determine their own future without outside 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 was pushing for. as 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 that it states and russia which though 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 to mesdames voice 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 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 here are some of the comments by un special envoy kofi annan on the situation we've given them the guidelines and others which we hope will be helpful for them it is not something we are going to impose it is something we respect in them to embrace and to have them see a path forward just to follow up on the question will. still be in the presidency at the end of this year or. before the i.c.c. so i left my crystal ball at home. u.n.

special envoy kofi annan did i remind you that the monitoring mission is still there on the spot and they are going to be just watching with their own eyes how most importantly both sides of this conflict are stopping the violence since this is also one of the key demands of the international community let's listen to what russia's foreign minister said he had to. we have sufficient proof that the armed opposition and those who sponsor them are not complying with bills you gave are not acting in a way that makes it impossible to install peace constantly provoking the syrian government and its forces which also react in an inappropriate and disproportionate way knowing that those opposition groups and this is on says are creating new violence. 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 for governing power. patrick henningsen associate editor of independent news website info wars dot com has told me a little earlier that if this roadmap fails the repercussions may be there the syria. if this latest initiative in geneva fails the consequences i'm afraid to say are quite dire not just for syria as a country and not just for the middle east but for the whole global geo political scene the what's what's at stake here is syria is a secular country in the middle east it's one of the last remaining secular countries multi-ethnic multi-religious. as it has a state owned bank note is very one of the last countries like this totally independent they are not under religious rule they don't have religious strife now

with this civil war this being fomented in syria that's a different story now we have the potential for massive religious division massive ethnic and tribal division and of course this is what the imperial historically what imperial powers love the most which is to divide and rule and if we if we if we remember syria lebanon on was carved up two or three times since one nine hundred twenty seven since the french mandate so look at look at the the strife you've had in the middle east since before world war two there's a direct result of artificial borders in the twenty first century you really have to ask yourself have we learned our lessons from the past. while the diplomats have been talking in geneva the fighting inside syria has carried on regardless. 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 experiencer saying that the riot police two reasons behind that the first is that the army has been trying to avoid casualties among civilians 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 today as. to go we've been hearing from saudia rabbit 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're hearing all this just days after president bashar 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 till the very very end . well for more analysis and reaction to developments in syria log on to our website altie dot com also don't forget to check out our correspondents twitter feeds for all the latest on the ongoing conflict. 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 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 especially loud in germany where many see the e.u.'s new bank bailout program as too much mechanism and while brussels to bail out banks using taxpayer money without consulting government merkel says she surrendered nothing and that any bank rescue would come with harsh strings attached dr jacques rogge most professor of political economy it's american 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 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 they sustained but the other is the economic crisis the really conny and of course we know how europe is rapidly is slipping into recession and various other 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 man credited with twisting nicholas 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 elite feeding the public backlash against austerity and even comedians approving successful alternatives to the current leadership qualities surface. time that it leaves the economic situation

it's no laughing matter it might come as some surprise that it's full of a t.v. comedian that take. the latest character to still its least 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 take willow and his five star movement now thrive on line shunning traditional media and gaining huge respect with its younger generation something that technocrat premier nary a monkey see far failed to do they're all whispering about young people but young people are not really represented in the stone thing goes off people in government and trades are a very often. old people which. don't add to the right feeling

of what use is 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 bodies and policy if you want to talk about that 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 protests in a major way all parties traditional parties just are not realizing that. things are changing so quickly and they are always always there trying to. very innovative themselves but they just they're not able angrier. in this

situation 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 he's an elected government trying to flee 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 italy 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 i'm a left the democratic party the party of 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 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 that's like the pirate party in germany and five star in italy are gaining solid ground as the euro is in state it's increasingly wobbly i think it's going to survive. it is going to survive. we need a big change i think should it now be its least form a funny man who find a solution to the quite it leaves a 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 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 right. this week a leading british bank by. please find his cell find almost three hundred million

pounds for rampant rate fixing in essence that bank manipulated figures relied on by the world's banking system in a bid to boost his own profits and that's something max and station the ca's reporter angry about the full program coming our way in a little over an hour from now but here's a quick preview. so now you have bob diamond over apparently committing criminal fraud on his own balanchine 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 so and it filters down to the rest of society but why 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 while the u.k. and he will be put in jail if you're connected if you're part of the conspiracy or part of. the cause or poor coming away very shortly. you can find this in other stories online at all if you don't call those available for the 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. was online find out about plans to launch a new telescope to keep an eye on asteroids which one pose a danger to earth all the details and much much more for you i don't don't come. in living this way the seventeenth century. strict. their community.

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a news report broadcast in the country suggests that's many thanks to sanction waivers handed out by washington the us is going to china singapore last but exemptions from financial penalties for buying it raining oil this follows earlier waivers to more than a dozen other countries almost all of iran's european clients don't like vista b. to most if he says that these measures never achieve what they're meant to and instead just the most from. the sort of stated objective of both the united states and the european union as in carrying out the sanctions is it 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 brunch or burden and what the sanctions are actually doing that's really what 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 obvious sanction is not so much the state players on how they're affected but how ordinary people inside iran are actually getting affected by these policies 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 kennedy says this kind of spending damages america's national image while feeding taxpayer money to greedy contracts. it's approaching a 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 look look back upon as a bad joke. the u.s. is facing a growing problem with almost a third of its population classed as overweight it's called the highest rate of obesity in the well despite more awareness than ever about the harmful effects of on healthy eating your health and this is a needle costing lot means 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 who are too lazy i think we're just lazy i think that most of it is better to see your coach sleeping eating well to stay even than 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 benteke. 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 so 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 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 a natural selection and if people are going to make bad choices they're going to die earlier and that's the way it should be 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 ways or bad. now it's time for a look at some other stories making headlines around the world stage these fifty something people have been killed and more than one hundred wounded in tribal clashes in the last three days in southern libya according to local sources the fighting rose between two burns wide tribesmen the nasa reportedly supported by the so-called libya shield brigade deployed by the interim government to act as a peacekeeping force former rebels often engage in clashes with rival groups as the country is full of weapons seized by citizens journey uprising against moammar gadhafi. and his northern desert region have destroyed holy sites in the city of timbuktu it comes amid conflicting conflicts between competing rebel groups in the west african nation is most fighters with ties to al qaeda say they're in

control of the northern half of the country after driving up ethnic 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 is egypt's first elected leader since the fall of hosni mubarak and friday he rallied crowds in caro's tahrir 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 . well the r.t. in-depth interview is coming your way in just a couple of minutes from now but first i'll be back with a recap of our top stories so stay with us live this is our team in moscow.

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