from phones to. t.v. dot com. at a crisis summit in geneva a transitional plan is agreed for syria which rejects regime change and allows syrians to decide their own political future. as the german parliament or rather the euro zone's a massive bailout of cash told there's a mission to italian budget seek consolation in comedy. and american troops might be heading out of iraq but being money's still flowing in washington plans a hundred million dollars worth of al great stories but dad embassy despite being at sad with diplomatic star.

international news live from moscow this is all see with me. 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 the signs 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 united states and russia 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 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 of the world 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 batterham. independent. dot com. fails repercussions and maybe a 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 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 the 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 massive amounts convened in geneva they finding in syria ask that of a hundred and fifty people killed in the last two days. 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 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 fence of 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 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 saudi a rabbit that it's 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 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 will be closely monitoring further developments in syria and through analysis and comment log on to our website is 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 news as well. the german parliament has approved the use massive bailout fund and ratified a new fiscal pocks which sets tough

a budget holes chancellor anglin lago finds herself on a back for good for jack singh suggestions that they that she. had to have a demands of southern states the backlash especially loud in germany where some lawmakers filed a lawsuit saying that they face a pact entries on the powers of german deputies chancellor merkel says she's surrounded by nothing and that any bank rescue would come with serious strains a time but germany's president promises he will withhold signing all thing in legislation pending the outcome of the legal action and dr jacques rogge says that the e.u. has only taken the short term measures and what it really needs is to promote growth. they've decided to do some of the urgency measures here and then kick the can down the road probably for another three to six months before they can actually institutionalize now some mechanism for providing e.s.m. we won't see a directory to the banks it's a temporary move here all designed in

a very short run to stop they you know rising rates. here for manisha charge that 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 in places slain 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 plunge. italian prime minister mario monti joined forces with his spanish and french counterparts during the latest e.u. summit in brussels to get significant concessions from the cold but at home for him

the science make political shift going on with the old elite ceiling so feeling the public backlash against the sterett he and even comedians are proving successful alternatives to the current leadership aftermath reports. tom that it's really the economic situation it's 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 its least political spotlights almost as the euro crisis continues 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 see 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 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 protests in a major way all parties traditional parties just 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 angrier. in this situation he is moving like a green. i mean because he can jump from an argument to another one and he's always winner currently in a status suspended democracy when 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 his five star movement 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 he's going to survive. we need a big change could 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 buoyant leader left the country with one in three unemployed might in debt 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 there for our thing. the us is counting its presence in iraq. removing about a cent of its diplomatic stop but it plans to spend around one hundred million dollars upgrading a fortified embassy compound in baghdad and former u.s. diplomat jewish canny says this kind of spending damages america's national image wow feeling tuxpan money to create a contract if it's approaching a billion or maybe over a billion dollars now that was spent on this compound in baghdad for 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 that 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. this is a coming to life for most coastal ahead for you this out from leave it to mali they climb the city with least twenty killed malise touched by the shadows a levy is called also. we still enjoy things like fast food is because a lot of work still take your time the battle really isn't with the calories as american waistlines just keep throwing we ask new yorkers what they can see in the society can do about the people who just consume too much the president is just a few. despite america's sanctions and. ron

is boasting that it sees and is sending its oil and news report broadcast in the country suggests that this is mainly thanks to sanction waivers hunted out by washington so the u.s. has gone to china and singapore last minute exemptions from front to binary you know and this follows their way to more than a dozen other countries almost all of the wrongs known if you were paying clients activist base have lost face says that three these measures never achieve what that meant to understand 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 look at iraq

as well as now is the running 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 extruded lehi 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. 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. and you can find more on that and other stories on our very own website which is on dot com and also available for you a military show in russia which is not a full swing in moscow's suburbs the country's latest military innovations are on display where visitors can get up close and personal with a sivits says safer is that all to the home. and also online and plans to launch a new telescope to keep an eye on asteroids which might pose

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start on dot com. here we go and islam is so keep lying molly is northern desert region destroyed whole its size in the city of timbuktu it comes a day after militants with ties to al qaeda declared they had gained control of the region after at least twenty civilians were killed in violent clashes and middle east expert only isaac a ways that the violence and monica follows directly from u.s. and nato action against conduct his government last chair wishing to mind stability in 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 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 of course dislodged in this place 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 beam 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. does some other news from around the world including rising violence and trouble to leave where at least fifty seven people have been killed and more than one hundred wounded in tribal clashes and the last three days in the country's south according to local sources the fighting rose between two and as wide tribesmen the last reportedly supported by the so-called leaders showed brigade deployed by the interim government to act as a peacekeeping force clashes between rival groups a common as the country's to the water where the weapons seized by rebels during the uprising against moammar gadhafi. people have been killed and about three million are facing the power cards after the devastating storms plowed through the media plant

a coastal region the situation has worsened by an abnormal hate wave causing people to seek refuge in buildings with a backup power supply emergencies were declared in several states officials calling it one of the most widespread power cuts in the country's history with more storms forecast. police used tear gas as crowds protested against new austerity measures in the sudanese capital khartoum demonstrators showed that anger with the recent and subsidy costs and rising prices for basic goods and fuel for the last year's breakaway of will reach 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 on to government protests. and mohamed morsi has been sworn in as the new egyptian president after taking the official oath of office is a 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 year of nationwide unrest the country remains partly controlled by the army which has also declared itself the main legislative power on nights of protest in recent days of the new president and demanded a complete power handover by the military. the u.s. is facing a growing problem with almost a third of its population classed as a weight so it's called the highest rate of obesity in the world despite more awareness than ever of the home full effects of unhealthy eating lawry heart than it does 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 hey think we're just lazy i think that most of it is better to see your coach sleeping

doing well to do this to 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 that make one perfect 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 to 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 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 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. 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 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 societies waste or bottom line.

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