at a crisis summit in geneva a transitional plan is agreed for syria which rebels are pushing change and allows the rejects rather regime change and allows to decide their own political future. as the german parliament to run the stands the euro zone's massive bailout cash board visitors and italian voters see consolation in comedy. and american troops might be heading out of a run but the money is still flowing and washington plans a hundred million dollars worth of other great stories for the downed embassy despite being a third of his diplomatic star. international

news live from moscow this is us here with me you know our thanks for joining us 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. the transition plan as it's called powers which do include the united states and russia we should principle we consider it 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 all too many thems voice here and actually as foreign minister

sergei lavrov said those were some of the more stumbling points during the in the sense previously some of the 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 trying 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

. independent news website in four walls dot com says a road map fails they. are. 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 there's been 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. and as diplomats convened in geneva the finding in syria escalated further with one hundred fifty people killed in the last two days and she's very few notion of 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 a constant source of troubles in sixteen months over crises it's been off to the government to control many times but it's never lost of 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 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 are 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

and of course it will be closely monitoring further developments in syria for more analysis and comment log on to our web site and she dot com and also don't forget to check out the twitter feeds from all our correspondents for the latest on the ongoing conflict and other news as well. the german parliament has approved the massive bailout fund and ratified a new fiscal pact which sets tough a budget roles chancellor angela merkel finds herself on the box food rejecting

suggestions that the shaken but she dated that they demands of southern states the backlash is especially not in germany where some lawmakers filed lawsuits saying that the fiscal pact intrigues on the powers of john and deputies chancellor merkel says she's surrounded nothing surrounded nothing and that any bank rescue would count training's touched but germany's president promises he will withhold signing of the new legislation pending the outcome of the nagle action dr jacques rogge says that the e.u. has only taken short term measures and order great innings today is to promote growth. and 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 are actually going to get institutionalized some mechanism for providing e.s.m. wonts of drug free to the banks it's a temporary move here all designed in a very short run to stop rather than they are rising rates. yields here for

a strong national charge that the euro crisis is really three crises in one three dimensions 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. rices butin 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 of both the banking and the sovereign debt crisis we have the 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 italian pm mario monti joined forces with his punishment french counterparts during the latest e.u. summit in brussels to get significant concessions from but there's hope for him there's a seismic political shift going on with the old elite feeling that public backlash

against austerity and even comedians are proving successful alternatives to the current leadership is a sad fact report. 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 how much does the euro crisis continue voters have become increasingly disillusioned with mainstream politics and a radical the populist greed and grassroots movements such as youth organization the right 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 monkey they found 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 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 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 protests in a major way all parties traditional parties just that are not realizing that. things are changing so quickly and they are always always there trying to.

very innovative themselves but they just are not able angrier. in this situation is is moving like agree. 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 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 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 the same 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 eurozone 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 a funny man he'll find a solution to the quite. a stranger to performance in its parliament but the decisions at the last plum point 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. and earlier this week a leading british by. barclays was fined almost three hundred million pounds for rampant rate fixing and essence the manipulated figures relied on by the world's banking system in a bid to boost its own profits and that's made marks and stacey very angry and their food program with a detailed look at that latest scandal is coming your way next hour and now his the 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 little bit has bends 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 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. and i think. the u.s. discussing 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 the former u.s. diplomat george kennedy says this kind of spending damages america's national image while feeding taxpayer money to greet a contract is. 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 the 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. it will be live from moscow and still ahead for you this hour from libya to mali deadly clumsily these twenty killed mollies touched by the shadows of the media is called but it's also. 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 are . as a market in the waistlines just keep growing we are new ways will be

a consumer society can do a if people would just consume to not the president isn't just. despite america's sanctions and an e.u. ron is boasting that it's easy it is sending these oil and used report broadcast in the country suggests that it is his ninety francs to sanction way was handed out by washington so the us has gone to china and singapore last minute exemptions from financial penalties for buying uranium oil on those foreigners and that way was to more than a dozen other countries almost all of iran's. clients noise and. that these measures never would. and instead just 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 we were going to iraq as well as now will. be 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. 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 on our very own website on the dot com and also available to you think excuse me i'm going to be russia.

which is now in full swing in moscow suburbs the country's latest military innovations are on display where visitors going to get up close and personal with the exhibits so see it for yourself. and also online new telescope to keep an eye on asteroids which might pose a danger to all the details and much more. limits occupy knowledges northern desert region have destroyed hope its size in the city of timbuktu it comes a day after militants with ties to al qaida declares they had gained control of the region after at least twenty civilians were killed in violent clashes and a middle east expert on the as a key ways that the violence in mali follows directly from us and nato action

against gadhafi government last year which undermined stability in the whole region . all of this of course is belated to a war that was waged against libya last year doing twenty eleven which brought about the displacement of many of the two out 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 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 of more in the regional context if the u.s. it not intervene in libya last year 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. hundred are some other news from around the world including rising violence in troubled levy or where least fifty seven people have been killed and more than one hundred wounded in tribal clashes in the last three days in the country south according to local sources the fighting rose between two and is why tribes men the latter reportedly supported by the so-called libya should brigade deployed by the interim government to act as

a peacekeeping force clashes between rival groups are common and the country is still awash with weapons seized by rebels during the uprising against moammar gadhafi. hama to morsi has been sworn in as the huge option president after taking their official oath of office and he's the country's first ever elected leader and the first civilian head of state says the toppling of hosni mubarak which was followed by more than a nationwide and razzed the country remains a 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 when. police used tear gas as crowds protested against new austerity measures in the sudanese capital khartoum demonstrators show their anger with the recent subsidy cancer and rising prices for basic goods in the fuel following last year's breakaway of oil rich south sudan

overall you know one thousand people have been detained and hundreds injured in clashes with police in the last two weeks of student led to government. 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 over the hansal effects of unhealthy eating and the worry harvest is 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 if i think you were just lazy i think that most of it is better to see your coach sleeping eating well to stick even the cost of an early death yeah but

nobody thinks because we don't do enough exercise and we large 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 benteke. 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 we're not 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 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. 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 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. so from the news room this hour i'll be back with the headlines in just a couple of minutes and right after that it's technology update.

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