as a crisis meeting in geneva major world powers agree a transitional plan for syria which rejects regime change and allows syrians to decide their own political future. as the german parliament roberts time to the euro zone's a massive bailout cash told his allusion to italian version seek consolation in comedy. and american troops might be heading out of iraq but the money is still flowing in washington plans a hundred million dollars worth of grades to baghdad embassy despite causing a surge of with diplomatic star.

hello and welcome to all t twenty following news live from moscow. a story now 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. 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 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 inaugural since previously some of the outside wheres 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 or all the outside where is 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. and patrick having some say say it and so independent news website info will still call on this road map fable state of a conscience may be severe syria if this latest initiative in geneva fails the consequences i'm afraid to say are quite dire and not just for syria as a country and not just for the middle east but for the whole global geo political scene there 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 leben on was carved up two or three times since one thousand 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. but as diplomats convened in geneva the fighting in syria escalated further with over one hundred fifty people killed in the last two days. reports from the syrian capital 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 of 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 terrorists 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 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 countries. through the turkish syrian border just two days ago we've been hearing from saudi a 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 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 to the very very end. and of course will be closely monitoring further developments in syria and for more analysis and comment now going to our web site home and also don't forget to check out they twitter feeds from all our correspondents for all the latest on the ongoing conflict and as well as. the german parliament approved the massive bailout fund and of ratifies the new fiscal pact which sets tough

a budget rules finds herself on the box food rejecting suggestions that shakeup capitulated capitulated rather to the demands of sudden a huge states the bond clashes especially lot in germany where some a no wake is fine a lawsuit saying that the fiscal pact intrigues on the powers of german deputies blackall sanchez surrounded in nothing and that any bank rescue would count serious strains of touched but germany's president promises he will withhold signing of the new legislation pending the outcome of the needle action and dr jack russell says that the e.u. has only taken short term measures and order really needs is to promote growth. they've decided to do some emergency measures here and then kick the can down the road probably for another three to six months before they institutionalize some mechanism for providing loans for drucker to the banks it's a temporary move here all designed in

a very short run to stop the you know rising rates. or manisha chalion debt the euro crisis is really three crises 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 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 in the longer run 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 we have governments that have already bailed out a lot of the banks and their debt is very high in resistance to that and now we have another financial crisis. and mario monti joining forces with his spanish and french counterparts during the latest e.u. summit in brussels to get significant concessions from but at home for him that is

a seismic but it's call shit going on with the old elite a failing the public backlash against austerity and even canadians are proving successful alternatives to the current leadership to have faster have a. time that it leaves the 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 as the euro crisis continued 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 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 monkey is safe our failed to do they're all whispering about young people but

young people are not really representative of the stone thing goes off people in government and trades are a very often. old people which. don't have the right feeling of what you see 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 merely bodies and 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 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 are not realizing that. things

are changing so quickly and they are old olds they are 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't jump from an argument to another one and he's always winner currently in a status suspended to vote for say 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 that. position in a very significant city in italy and other places and i think he's filled a 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 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 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. if it's going to survive. we need a big change i think should it now be a funny man he'll find a solution to the quite it leaves a stranger to performance in its parliament but the decisions at the last from boy 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 leaving british by. barclays found itself find almost three hundred million pounds for run and raid fixing in athens the bank manipulated figures that relied on by the world's banking system in a bid to boost its own profits and that's something max and stay sane the kinds report on our way about that full program coming your way next hour but here's a preview. so now you have bob diamond over barclays committing criminal fraud on his own balance sheet committing criminal fraud in a live or 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 ben's 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's no state of the law there's absolutely no still avoid to do any criminal action in what u.k. if you want a good jail if you're connected if you're part of conspiracy you're part of mafia. the us 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 fortified embassy compound in baghdad former u.s. diplomat george tenet says this kind of spending damages america's national image while 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 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 is 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 line from the head thieves from leave it to. the clutches leave at least twenty killed early been shot the bodies for riots and. despite america's sanctions and

a looming. ronnie's boasting that it's easily sending its own news report and the country suggests that is mainly thanks to sanction waivers handed out by washington the us has ground to china and singapore last minute exemptions from financial penalties for buying uranium well this for those away was to more than a dozen other countries almost all of iran's known for a few moments and that is to be a stone face says that these and. that meant to you and instead just the most vulnerable. the sort of stated objective of both the united states and the european union as in 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

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 extruding lehi some say twenty some go up to sixty percent of an inflation rate in the country so we're really seeing terms of the effect. 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. and of course you can find more on that and other stories online at r.t. dot com and also available for you the u.s. in the chamber is headed by a sense of the scandal and mr gates will find sachi one female candidates were sexually assaulted by their superiors raising concerns over the safety of women in america's armed forces it's. also in line of plans to launch a new telescope to keep an eye on asteroids which might pose a danger to us all the details and the trough of course as r.t.

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welcome back now all of us occupying mali is a northern desert region have destroyed her and its sights in the city of timbuktu it comes a day after militants with ties to al qaida declared they had gained control of the region after at least twenty civilians were killed in violent clashes and a middle east expert beyond the as a key way says and the violence in mali follows directly from the u.s. and nato action against gadhafi government last year were just stabilize the whole region. all of this of course is related to a war that was waged against libya last year doing twenty eleven which brought about the displacement of many of the two iraq forces who have been settled in libya for many many years they were well armed and of course with them entering the situation inside of northern mali is further destabilize and polarize the situation

in sap and north of the country and of course affected the capital up of mochel as well the nato forces led by the united states destroy the social fabric and national infrastructure and the national economy of libya libya was the most prosperous of the most stable state on the african continent as a result of the destabilization activities on the part of nato the twenty six thousand air missions that were flown over the country over a seven month period ten thousand air strikes against libya the naval blockade the freezing of foreign assets this is of course dislodged and displaced hundreds of thousands of people inside the country and hundreds of thousands or more in the regional context if the u.s. had not been a bean in libya last year we would not happy current situation that we have right now in mali so u.s. . and nato intervention is not the solution the solution has to be found in mali

itself within west africa itself among the people. now some other news from around the world including rising violence in destabilized libya where fifty seven have been killed and more than one hundred wounded in tribal clashes in the last three days in the country's south according to local sources the fighting rose between two and is why tribesmen the latter reportedly supported by their so-called leaders shilled brigade deployed by the interim government to act as a peacekeeping force clashes between rival groups are common as the country is still awash with weapons seized by rebels during the uprising against moammar gadhafi. government morsi has been sworn in as the new egyptian president after taking the offer that the short oath of office it's so he's the country's first ever elected leader and the first civilian head of state since the toppling

of hosni mubarak which was followed by more than a year over nationwide and rest of the country remains partly controlled by the army which has also declared itself the main legislative power massive protests in recent days supported the new president and demanded a complete power hundred over by the military. the u.s. is facing a growing problem with almost a third of its population classed as overweight so it's called the highest rate of obesity in the world despite more awareness than ever of the harmful effects of unhealthy eating and the we harvest in new york asking what needs to be done to help people to 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 i think we're just lazy i think that most of it is better to see your coach sleeping

doing well to do this to me but even the cost of an early death yeah but nobody thinks about that because we don't do enough exercise and we watch 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 big one where pathetic 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 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 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 but 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 thinks. 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 and 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.

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