at a crisis summit in geneva a transitional plan is agreed for syria which rejects regime change and allow syrians to decide that own political future. the german parliament rubber stands the euro zone the last of bailout. there's a mission to italian voters see consolation in comedy. and american troops might be heading out of the round but the money is still flowing in washington pounds a hundred million dollars worth of upgrades to my dad embassy despite cutting a third of its diplomatic staff. international news and comment live from moscow this is r.c.

with me here thanks for joining us they 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 this kind of reports they did manage to agree on a new. transition plan as it's called powers which do include the that it states and russia we should know 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 on that. there are no more preconditions and no ultimatums voice here and actually as foreign minister sergei

lavrov said those were some of the more stumbling points during the in the gulf since previously some of the outside wheres outside of syria of course as they're called did call on 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 patrick hansen say said and tell independent news website in four

wars dot com has a road map fails repercussions that may be severe. 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 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 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 we really have to ask ourselves 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 few notional reports now 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 lost of lawn 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 redeal control over duma syria has a very strong army and many are asking 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 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 we'll be closely monitoring further developments in syria

for more analysis and comment log on to our website r.t. dot com and also don't forget to check out the twitter feeds from all our correspondents for all the latest on the ongoing conflict and other thing news as well. big german parliament approved the monster of bailout fund and ratified a new fiscal pact which sets tough a budget rules chancellor angela merkel finds herself on the back for it rejecting suggestions that che capitulated to the demands of seventy years states

a backlash especially not in germany where some lawmakers filed a lawsuit saying that their fiscal pact intrudes on the powers of german deputies chancellor merkel says she is surrounded nothing and that any bank rescue would come with serious strains that touched but germany's president promises he will withhold signing of the needed just lation pending the outcome of the nagle action and dr jack russell says that the e.u. has only taken short term measures that were eight reading nees is to provide 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 actually linger institutionalize some mechanism for providing e.s.m. wound so directly to the banks it's a temporary move here all designed in a very short run to stop the you know rising rates. yields fierce war manisha

charge that the euro crisis is really three crises and want three dimensions and one is the sovereign debt crisis another is the banking crisis which is becoming more visible in place just plain 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 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 may have been 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. it's china and pear marymount joined forces with his spanish and french counterparts during the latest e.u. summit in brussels to get significant concessions from marco but at home for him there's a seismic political shift going on where the old indeed feeling the public backlash against austerity and even comedians are proving successful alternatives to the

current leadership our fath reports that italy's economic situation is no laughing matter 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 now mr does the euro crisis continue voters have become increasingly disillusioned with mainstream politics and a radical a populist bridge and grassroots movements such as youth organizations here in rome have been growing in force and popularity the fake willow and his five star movement now thrive on ly shunning traditional media and gaining huge respect with its younger generation something that technocrat premier nary a monkey has a far 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. took the right feeling of what use 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 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 linked. parties losing to the protest in a major way all parties traditional parties are just that are not realizing that. things are changing so quickly and they are all old they are trying to.

very innovative 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 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 but page 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 that. position in very significant city in italy and other places and i think he's filled a vacuum and so the party's 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 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 have seen formally dispels by the own going quite a movement like the pirate party in germany 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 is going to survive. we need a big change i think that it now it's least of all the funny man who find a solution to the crisis it leaves me a stranger to performance and it's part of an. but the decisions at the last flamboyant leader left the country with one in three unemployed my 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 so if the great. and earlier this week

a leading british bank barclays was fined almost three hundred million pounds for round and raid fixing and essence they are buying if you dated figures of relied on by the world's banking system and a bit to boost its own profits that's made marx and stacey very angry and their full program with the details that's the latest scandal is coming your way in two hours time and right now 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 of 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 a breakers in jail because all we be left with are a bunch of marmite parts and some a little bit has bands 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 war there's absolutely no still of lloyd to do any criminal action in what the u.k. if you want a good jail if you're connected if you're part of conspiracy you're part of mafia. the u.s. is counting 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 and formally you has to plod george kennedy says this kind of spending damages america's national image while feeding taxpayer money to agree to contract. 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. you're watching live from on still ahead for you this hour from libya to mali as deadly floods is leave at least twenty been shot and these are rising. we still enjoy things like fast food is because a lot of people are still ignorant of how bad it really is or what the calories. is the fast food nation and we'll also hear from the trade that americans think it

should be done to ease by expanding waistlines interest. despite america's sanctions on. iran is boasting that it's easily sending its oil a news report broadcast on the country's suggests that it mainly thanks to sanction away was handed out by washington the u.s. has ground to china and singapore last minute exemptions from financial penalties for buying a brain oil baseball knows what it was to more than a dozen of other countries almost all of the rounds in the european heads nor an activist. says that these measures never achieve what that meant to stead just has the most vulnerable. the sort of stated objective of both the united states and the european union 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 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 we're really seeing terms of the effect of the 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. and you you can find them on that and other stories in our very own web site and also available for you a military show in russia which is now in full swing in moscow somebody stole the country's latest military innovations are on display where visitors can get up close and personal with

a sivits so see it for yourself you don't. go online 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 has haunted a whole. industry claims the process is perfectly. that brings nothing. and the industry isn't telling the whole story. they're goddamn liars.

they're here to. make as much money as they can and get the whole idea. let's move more now on to islam it's ok by the northern desert region have destroyed holy sites in the city of timbuktu it comes a day after minton's with ties to al qaida declared they had great glory gained control of the region after at least twenty civilians were killed in violent clashes and middle east expert me as a key ways says that the violence in mali follows directly from the u.s. and nato action against going down his government last year was destabilize the whole region. all of this of course is with later 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 destabilizing polarize the situation and sap and know what the currents are 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 us had not intervened in libya last year we would not happy current situation 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. let's not check some other news stories from around the world including rising violence and destabilize leave here where seven people 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 grows between two blue and white tribesmen the last reported late supported by this so-called leave it showed brigade deployed by the interim government to act as a peacekeeping force clashes between rival groups are common as a countries to watch with weapons seized by rebels during the uprising against mama gadhafi. morsi has been sworn in as the new egyptian president after

taking their official oath of office is 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 of nationwide unrest the country remains party controlled by the army which has also declared itself the main legislative power massive protests in recent days supporters of the new president and demanded a complete power hundred over by the military. police used tear gas and crowds protests against new austerity measures in the sudanese capital khartoum demonstrators showed their anger with recent subsidy cancer and rising prices for basic goods and fuel following last year's breakaway avoid which south sudan overall nearly one thousand people have been detained and hundreds injured in clashes with police in the last two weeks of student led antigovernment protests. the us is facing a growing problem with almost

a third of its population classed as wage it's called the highest rate of obesity in the world despite of more awareness than ever of the harmful effects of unhealthy eating there were often it's just in new york for us 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 the stuff even 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 intestinal fortitude to follow through that's what is meant but the big one but i think 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 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 it's both 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 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 waist or bottom line. they are saying to fuse up a couple of minutes of fun as telephonic with a recap our top stories don't go away.

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