all. the syrian opposition rejects the latest international peace plan calling for free elections with an all inclusive transitional government in the interim. britain's big brother internet and phone firms are to record data but there is deep concern over a new government plans to pry into citizens personal affairs. and fresh calls to trial julian assange for spying are made in washington as our team prepares to air the final episode of this interview show.

thank you for joining r.t. this monday with me karen. syria's opposition has rejected the new international plan to end the country's a bloody internal conflict they say they don't want president assad to be a part of the political transition a meeting in geneva of international powers agreed that the syrian people are to decide the fate of the country and there are no demands for regime change parties maria financial has more from damascus being the geneva peace proposal was the latest attempt to reconcile the divided sides in the syrian conflict with the unity government but that hope was already fading even before the delegates in switzerland returned to their homes this year a national council all s. and c. and the free syrian army the political and military forces spearheading the uprising both financed from and based abroad have made it clear they can be no solution either side in power as allowed in the geneva agreement the homebase of

position is less direct though some still warn it's too late for dialogue the un and sort of party boycotted mase parliamentary elections. its leader has said the time has come for all sides to make sacrifices and the government should lead the way. the peace plan will only work if assad hands over control of the armed forces and security to the interim government they should start seeing the free syrian army and others who are against them as the opposition you know everyone agrees some say the syrian opposition is too fragmented to be trusted larp again only those who really want dialogue should be thought of as legitimate opposition and who is that it's a battle of wills the geopolitical interests of big regional players but we're sure to see more games being played to sabotage the peace efforts. the syrian people we spoke to welcomed the idea of

a unity government but with some reservations of their own if their position is internal national there is no problem but if it's an opposition with foreign passports that's just not acceptable. we understand what we want to but we cannot understand what the opposition wants apart from assad to go what else. simulink galula said or heads of the s.n.c. we don't even know who they are we don't need them. with so many unknowns analysts say the syrian opposition has both the covert and open support of nations who demand regime change and backed the rebels with tons of weapons channeled into syria to fuel the conflict. the first thing to do this is take away these arms otherwise no peace is possible but that can be done quickly too much money has been spent and too many parties are involved but meanwhile according to the geneva document the syrian people are the only ones who should decide their country's future but they're concerned they want to get the chance. of course we the syrian

people should decide what we want for ourselves we knew that already if. they brought foreign terrorists from outside and money it was a conspiracy from the first day. who can stop the violence while foreign countries are financing and supporting the rebels but it seems that no matter how much international game playing they raise it will be syrians themselves who bear the brunt of the dream didn't last long less than two days after the latest peace initiative force forward in geneva skepticism is growing that an interim governing body made up of the syrian opposition and current regime will ever become more than just a solution on paper with more lives being lost every day in this war torn country this bloody saga looks far from over. or even optional r.t. from damascus and syria. and despite the transition jill reached in geneva and continues to encourage rebels to carry on their find against the regime that's

a paris based political analysts come along says. i mean if you hear the statement of the russian and you hear the statement of mrs clinton the secretary of state of the united states you would hear that there is a huge difference between the two statements one is calling it a healing of the country and one mrs clinton saying we won the president to step down a new one and out of the pictures it's time to go and he's not talking about starting a transitional period and obviously the sentiment the american sentiment the negative sentiment that actually feeding into this chaos in syria is still. i think it's time for the american to be silent and set aside for the persian gulf country stop meddling inside syria so we can see positive reinforcement and real dialogue taking the place as long as these. countries take in this negative

damaging grog i think the level of violence and the hate it will continue to fuel of the violence in syria. turkey isn't letting the tension in is on its frontier with syria sending six fighter jets into the area. it's in response to helicopters from the arab state flying close to the border though there was no violation of its airspace the move follows the shooting down of a turkish fighter jet last month after it crossed into syrian airspace and caught a claimed the plane was on armed and had strayed briefly while just testing its own side's radars in response to the downing of the aircraft turkey began deploying artillery along its border with syria damascus meanwhile insists it was just protecting its security. and still have for you a little later news from another middle eastern country where the wounds of the arab spring remain open and healed. libya's questionable headway towards democracy

real a crushing blow as protesters tear an election up already all this into pieces in the very birthplace of last year's uprising. and the of president and sanctions against iran are now in force but will they succeed in making takraw not abandon its nuclear ambitions you can find out in just a few minutes right here on our team. the u.k. has found another way to snoop into its citizens affairs internet and phone companies are set to install so-called black boxes which will monitor e-mails social networking activity and calls and store them for up to a year it's all part of a government plan to catch terrorists and sex offenders if it is insists that only limited details will be stored but activists are raising privacy concerns. this is almost literally orwellian under the plan as it's been described the government

will have boxes the critic doing everyone's private emails and web surfing and for saying companies to record all of that data to be turned over to the government at any time i mean it's almost like literally opening up every letter that gets sent through the post office so that the government can make a copy just in case one of the biggest issues with this proposal is that the boxes you know will be kept by the ice peeves and it's very hard to say that this is going to make it even more secure given that it's easy to imagine it's either a rogue guy has to be employees rogue government officials or just hackers and breaking into the ice and stealing all of this personal information you know on the internet as it is now a lot of personal information moves through the internet but it's not all kept in one place by having these computers store it all they're creating a huge target for criminals who lives incredibly vague and brought it just as the government needs the power to spy on everybody what it is that they're actually interested in it's hard to say and i think it comes out of

a mentality not of trying to solve a particular problem but just a thinking like oh wouldn't it be nice if we were more powerful you know governments always want to be more powerful they always want to just in case have the ability to spy on everyone but the government has provided no clear explanation of what the problem is they're trying to solve. it's nine minutes past the hour and the e.u. embargo of iranian oil is now in place along with fresh u.s. sanctions against countries dealing with tough problems and measures are aimed at pressurizing iran to curb its nuclear program the islamic republic says however that been stockpiling money as a buffer and that selling oil remains no problem thanks to america exempting some countries from penalties including china and singapore author and journalist option we're told see a says the sanctions are unlikely to have the desired effect. iran will be more than happy to replace all the oil exports to europe with their customers whether they be eleven america or lose notably china because the u.s.

has exempted china and the chinese foreign minister is already on record as saying that these you have to also actions are outrageous and wrong johnnie's oil imports crude oil imports from iran rose twenty five percent there back to two thousand and eleven levels it seems that the united states presumably again lobbied by israel which seems to be running its foreign policy well to do this at the same time as the great economic crisis in europe is causing havoc increase oil prices are certainly going to make not only the euro but european problem is suffer so this isn't going to help the world economy and it's certainly not having any impact on iran. all right still to come this hour at four years on science washington's launched a marketing campaign promoting brand usa all over the world. we investigate whether president obama's plan could succeed in attracting more visitors from emerging

economies and create new jobs in his own country. and europe's largest city just two times bigger in size former president jimmy jimmy the bids of proposal to expand miles skells boundaries has been put into place we have all the details in just a few minutes. scores of armed men seeking autonomy for libya's benghazi have raided the city's electoral commission office trashing equipment and causing extensive damage and happened just days before the country's first general election since the fall of moammar gadhafi activists and journalists who can chandan says the attack shows just how far libya actually is from democracy the elections are about to come about in libya in in a few days but i don't think it's a sign of any democratic progress in libya because all indicators which should be there which will lead to. a healthy democracy will be taking place are absent so

what we have is a is the relative persecution of women's rights relative to what happened in the gadhafi persecution of all dark skin libyans who are being persecuted on the basis that they are loyal by a by by dint of their pigmentation of their skin to gadhafi we have interest robel warfare girl or we have four hundred militias all across libya there is no there's no law and order there's no security so this is the and this is far from any basis of a true people focus democracy but this is the nature of the n.p.c. nato democracy and this is the nature of the democracy that nato want to bring to all the peoples of the global south. a u.s. senator has renewed calls for julian sols to be prosecuted for espionage australian media reports that u.s. senate intelligence committee had dianne feinstein has reiterated that the whistleblower has compromised america's security. is currently hold up in ecuador's embassy in london waiting for a decision on his asylum bid meanwhile the last episode of his talk show is set to

air right here on r t this time massage talks to malaysian opposition leader anwar ibrahim he tells the whistleblower about his fight for freedom at home and what he sees as the hypocrisy of some western leaders. you want to do something you must not be quite up. to in of course bullet these are the art of compromise i'm not seeing that you know you could political philosopher dictate the new shoes and but. this had been ground groups that you have to accept it don't you know i mean you attack it when we see you are dead for democracy you become the west there's too much but the more you talk about market konami you become. soros agent but you know these things i mean one of the. you have it now there will be with you you know it's going to happen of the. but i think you know people you

know the problem with authority and indeed in diamonds even the leaders in the west including destroy islam or for these. and we against them this unilateral policy of the states i mean the i do. sense that the. ascribe to the idea of use this initial spirit of the american revolution or differ so in ideas or the habits of the heart the talk of you talked about the dog and that is our old concert. watch the last episode of jonah sargent's interview show right here on r t on tuesday at eleven thirty g.m.t. and of course you can watch all the previous episodes at a sound started out come. back in two thousand and nine president obama put tourism army agenda as a potential economy booster advertising brand america cross the world but ambitious

plan hasn't managed to pull the jobs market out of a slump with a june yet another week month for the struggling u.s. economy more important i reports. america's economy was once like the strongest and fastest roller coaster everyone wanted to ride. but nearly four years following wall street's financial freefall more than fifteen million u.s. citizens lack full time jobs. and employment problem the u.s. president hopes visitors from other countries can help fix more money spent by more tourists means more businesses can hire more workers washington has launched a marketing campaign promoting brand usa all over the world. with a heavy focus on travelers from brazil china and india visitors from all three emerging economies contributed a reported fifteen billion dollars to the u.s.

in two thousand and ten part of what's going on in the united states is americans don't have any money anymore and they can't afford to go on vacation and part of what you're seeing is them looking to replace the weak pushed out american middle class with folks from other parts of the world where the economy is going better and wages are growing in an effort to lure the big spenders the white house has made it easier and quicker for more chinese and brazilian citizens to obtain tourist visas before brand usa came brand fake out of new york city america's top tourist destination attracted more than fifty million visitors last year now while the weak u.s. dollar has been a budget for the buying power of u.s. citizens customers armed with a stronger currency have kept business is booming and prices from dropping the international visitor are they're great shoppers and they spend a tremendous amount of money there brazilians spend a tremendous amount of money many europeans the chinese spend a lot of money and george is the c.e.o. of n.y.c.

and company an organization that markets the big apple around the globe he also serves as marketing vice chairman for brand usa every eighty five visitors foreign visitors it comes to the united states you creates one john. and because we have so many different visitors you know we have over ten million international visitors in two thousand and eleven and now we have well over three hundred twenty five thousand jobs in the hospitality and travel and tourism industry so it's a huge boon to the economy but some argue quantity may not be quite to quality it does tend to create fairly low paid service industry jobs that doesn't tend to create great jobs having people in the business of manufacturing or high end services you know medical services business services tends to create much higher quality or paid jobs than tourism which to answer korea la jobs for people cleaning hotel rooms and serving meals i decade ago the idea of an american president betting on tourists from brazil china and india for jobs would have raised many

eyebrows. today however two hundred million dollars is being spent to brand usa abroad while social services continue being cut at home. r.t. new york. there are always more stories waiting for you at our teen dot com here's a quick peek of what we have. in town for a change the british prime minister paves the way for a possible rapper random only ukase in membership saying his country's people are not happy with relations as they are. also as the demand for drones is expected to continue to grow the american state of florida is devoting a large chunk of funding hoping to become the country's call before unmanned aerial vehicles. is easy to.

download the official tea humbly cation joy on the phone one called talk from the. joel g. lloyd on the go. video on demand all jesus old girls. and streets now in the palm of your. question on the dot com. all right it's nineteen minutes past the hour it's time now for a brief look at some other stories making headlines across the globe. a gunman and an afghan police uniform has killed three nato staff in southern afghanistan he was injured and later arrested and sudden brings the number of foreign troops killed

this month to thirty nine with a death toll of two hundred fifteen so far this year the attack comes ahead of the handover which will see control of the country pass from nato to afghan security forces in twenty fourteen. hundreds of protesters have demonstrated in japan over the country's first restart of a nuclear plant since the crisis at fukushima last year the move was ordered last month as the prime minister said economic and living standards couldn't be maintained without atomic energy the country shut down all its nuclear plants after a meltdown at the fukushima plant that was triggered by last troops from the army under. seventeen people have been killed with over forty wounded in simultaneous attacks on two churches in northeast kenya massed assailants a launched gun and grenade raids the worst in the country since sent troops into somalia to pursue all shabaab militants since then islamised have been blamed for

a string of blasts across kenya though they've never admitted to the violence in the country. in mexico preliminary results show the opposition candidate pena nieto has claimed to victory in the country's presidential election his when means the return to power of the institutional revolutionary party which has had less friendly relations with the us than the party which has ruled mexico for the past twelve years the winners party have previously enjoyed seven decades in power and had gained a reputation for widespread corruption electoral fraud and all the return or any ism. about. areas of the russian capital have been officially extended to southwest as recently promised meaning the city has now more than doubled in area peter oliver looks into what the expansion means for muscovites and for those who have been made city dwellers after the move. it was always one of europe's

largest cities and now moscow has gotten even bigger from the first of july a huge chunk of what had been the moscow region has now been absorbed into the city proper but why was this done and what differences will it make to the lives of those living in the new parts of the city. the changes which were put forward last year by then president dmitri medvedev see two small cities and three municipal districts coming inside the city limits seeing moscow grow almost two and a half times covering an area roughly the size of a quarter of a million football pitches but the idea is that these new sites will take some of the strain of moscow's jump city center their plans to make them attractive to foreign investment also some elements of russia's federal government will see their headquarters relocating to new buildings away from downtown there's even the possibility of building a new financial hub in the south west of the city and those involved in that

project will be hoping it could benefit from it out of sense of location and even compete with moscow city when it comes to attracting business what is astonishing about the boundary changes is that as much as this is moscow now so is here as well listen p. village seems a far cry from the gridlocked traffic and skyscrapers of the city center but things are set to change here not only in terms of construction projects for the locals here registration documents are going to have to be changed taxes filed in new locations and for senior citizens the basic pension is set to rise by around one hundred euro per month so what the locals here feel about becoming muscovites. which fifty years will be leaving his. village and we got used to our family life i think the change is going come immediately because i think we'll see development

take place quickly in our area now that we parts of the city there will be more than we're going to i think it's positive i'm all for the project i think it will be profitable this will create a new more school for him if you would so there is the development is already there where you and you can see from the forest of apartment buildings that have being erected just behind me but over the coming years the shoot to be plenty more construction work to be carried out these are all over are to moscow. by crossing over to the business das natascha we saw a major rally all the russian markets late last week is it sustainable well it doesn't look like it is and fact the russian markets opened a lower they are losing value let's take a look at the actual numbers and as you can see the r.t.s. is already losing around half a percent within the first twenty minutes of trade and stay with russia as the

country has reserved around a billion dollars as a safety cushion for a possible crisis that's around a third of the anti-crisis spending of two thousand and nine analysts say this time russia is more prepared for a possible downturn and may even avoid spending this money and b.p. has given up on the idea of joining the nord stream russia's subsidy gas to here last week gazprom said the british companies interested in the extending than one stream pipeline to britain but commerce on daily reports the russian shareholders of t.n.t. b.p. insists the move should be done through its russian joint venture and that's something b.p. doesn't want to do last year to block the british company's deal with rosneft saying it violated it sure has. greenman to exclusively represent b.p. in russia and now that naturally brings us to crude and crude is shedding

value this monday morning following a major rally on friday in fact it was the biggest daily gain for crude in about three years and at the moment as you can see that over u.t.i. is trading bull zero eighty four dollars a barrel and back to the equity markets asia and did out closing in the positive territory this monday morning mainly on optimism about the outcome of the european summit a last week the e.u. leaders agreed to directly inject cash into troubled banks and also to create a single body that would monitor the euro zone banks essentially we're talking about the much anticipated european banking union now that's the background but speaking of the asian markets as you can see the nikkei closed want to positive and it was mainly driven by x orders on all that. beat sentiment toward

europe and the hang saying it was close for a holiday now onto wall street it had an amazing day on friday a major rally there. as you can see the nasdaq ended up closing around three percent higher for the first half of the year overall the nasdaq ended up gaining thirteen percent while the dow was up five point four percent not bad considering that we're in the midst of a crisis and now on to the currency market while all the positive sentiment from last week was enough to push the stock markets higher it's certainly not enough to support the euro it's a losing value the sour against the u.s. dollar and the russian ruble twenty minutes ago opened a lower to the dollar and. higher to the euro it is trading next that's all the latest from the business desk this hour although back in about fifteen minutes meanwhile fon all the way to set our business all right thanks for that update and

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