the syrian opposition rejects the latest international peace plan calling for free elections with an all inclusive transitional government and we enter on. britain's big brother internet and phone firms are to record data but there is deep concern over new government plans to pry into citizens' personal affairs. and fresh calls to try julian assange as for spying are made in washington as our team prepares to air the final episode of this interview. and in the business bulletin the russian markets are trading in the red in the first hour without following a major rally on friday all the details and about twenty minutes.

hello and thank you for joining our t.v. it's monday with me it's one o'clock here in moscow syria's opposition has rejected the new international plan to end the country's bloody and terminal conflict they say they don't want president assad to be a part of the political transition 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 or if an ocean has more from damascus. the geneva peace proposal was the latest attempt to reconcile the divided sides in the syrian conflict with a unity government but that hope was already fading even before the delegates in switzerland returned to their homes the syrian national council 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 with assad 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 so our 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 we 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. 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 welcome to 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. someone like jelly almost said or head 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 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 worried the syrian people

should decide what we want for ourselves we knew that already. 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 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. r.t. from damascus and syria. despite the transition deal reached in geneva washington continues to encourage couples to carry on their fight against the regime says

every political analyst come along. i mean if you hear the statement of the russian and you have the statement of mrs clinton the secretary of state of the united states you would hear there is a huge difference between the two statements one is calling at 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 at transitional period and obviously the sentiment the american sentiment the negative sentiment that actually feeding into this chaos in syria is still as is 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 is a letting the tension ease on its frontier with syria sending six fighter jets to the area says it's in response to helicopters from the arab state flying close to the border though there was no violation of its air space the move follows the shooting down of a turkish fighter jet last month after it crossed into syrian air space and caught a claim the plane was on armed and had it strayed briefly while just testing its own side's radars in response to the downing of the aircraft turkey began deploying artillery across its border with syria damascus meanwhile insists it was just protecting its security. all right still ahead for you a little later news from another middle eastern country where the wounds of the arab spring remain open and. might be as questionable headway towards democracy

reels under a crushing blow as protesters tear an election of already office into pieces in the very birthplace of last year's uprisings. of the i'm president of sanctions against iran are now in force but will they succeed in making tech problem abandon its nuclear ambitions find out in just a few minutes right here on our team. well the u.k. is found another way to snoop into its citizens is 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 data for a year they authorities insist that only limited details will be kept but activists are raising privacy concerns let's now talk to our ts our furth sara why is the u.k. pushing for this legislation. for the home office will tell you that they need

this is a vital tool in order to catch criminals and as criminals become more technologically advanced so must they but you've got to really look at what they're trying to justify here because this is going to affect absolutely everyone in the k.n. it's going to be your phone calls it's going to be your internet searches is going to be your take being who you are e-mailing even your facebook all this data is set to be stored in black boxes which if the lord is part of the government would be able to access and snoop on our private information whenever they want now this is part of the draft bill the communications data bill that the government of saying they need it's being nicknamed the sneakers child i mean quite rightly so because we've got to look at here is what civil liberties groups who oppose this is saying which is that you know was there justifying this in order to catch these two committing crimes and as he said the home office saying look if you're doing

nothing wrong then you've got nothing to fear but what those opposed to it are actually saying is that we're all going to be caught in this government web and that is going to make criminals of us all and it has to be said if this does get passed into law then this is going to make britain one of the most intrusive surveillance regimes in the west that's are i can understand why the government would want something like this but what about the british people how do they feel about the storing of information of their private e-mails and phone calls. well of course it's a huge concern over the fact that this is yet another measure that set to erode our privacy now was the home of the say that they're not going to actually be storing the contents of that information this information that would be kept in these black boxes would be kept for up to a year and those tech experts that we've been speaking to has said that they you know if they would be able very easily to access the content of that and of course that causes a huge concern amongst the british population we're already living in an age and

certainly in the u.k. where we're monitored every single day by millions of c.c.t.v. cameras we've got facial recognition time and again in surveys the u.k. ranks right up there at the very top of the surveillance societies now we've been speaking to some of the people online and on our twitter and asking them what they think about this latest measure and the response has certainly been one of a lot of pessimism people are very very unhappy about these proposals we have one person saying that sounds very sinister i don't like it one invests in another person on twitter who responded said it reminds us of a u.s. air t.v. series that was about the same sort of surveillance system well they do say the real life is stranger than fiction sometimes and certainly in this case if this goes ahead the people who would have access to this information are very personal information would be pretty evolved to be the police the serious and organized crime is a agency intelligence agencies and h.m.

revenue customs and they'd be able to access it without any kind of judicial warrant so there's a huge amount of concern about it and of course it all sounds a bit all well and doesn't it having this sort of to tell a terror in state the massive valence that justified in terms of the greater good at the parliament of scrutinizing this at the moment that as he said if it's passed into law it could be set to cause some significant opposition and was big brother might not be watching us the u.k. government could be set to in the near future all right thank you very much for that update our to sara first lot of money. now the e.u. embargo of iranian oil is now in place along with fresh u.s. sanctions against countries dealing with tech crunch the measures are aimed up pressurizing iran took curb its nuclear program the islamic republic says however that it's been stockpiling money as a buffer and that selling oil remains no problem thanks to america exempting some

countries from penalties including china singapore author and journalist option written see 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 other customers with a b. in latin america or lose notably china because it was the us has examined china and the chinese foreign minister is already on record as saying that these you have to all sanctions are outrageous and and wrong johnnie's oil imports crude oil imports from iran rose five percent there back to two thousand and eleven levels it seems absurd that the united states presumably again low b. 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 finances 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 four years all incensed washington's launched a marketing campaign and 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. scores of armed men seeking autonomy for libya has been garcinia have raided the city's electoral commission office trashing equipment and causing extensive damage that happened just days before the country's first general election since the fall of moammar gadhafi activists and journalists who can channel and says the attack shows just how far in libya really 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 right 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 and by but by dint of the pigmentation of their skin to gadhafi we have will watch for a 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 this is far from any basis of a true people focus democracy but this is the nature of the empty seat nato democracy and this is the nature of the democracy that nato want to bring to all the peoples of the global south. a.o.s. senator has renewed calls for julian assange to being 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 just currently holed 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 here on our team this time a song from malaysian opposition leader anwar ibrahim he tells the whistleblower about his fight for freedom at home and what he sees as the hypocrisy of someone strong leader. you want to do something you must not be caught up. to would in of course pull at these the art of compromise a move seeing that you know you would like a political philosophy dictate the new shoes in but. this had been ground groups that you have to accept it don't you know i mean you attack it when we do see your dog for democracy you become the west there's too much with him or you talk about market can only you become a you know. soros agent but you know these things i mean one of the. you have it no 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. times even the leaders in the west including destroy islam or for these. we are against them this unilateral policy of the states i mean the i do. since. ascribe to the idea of use this initial split or the american revolution or differ saudi in ideas or the habits of the heart the talk of you talked about the dog and that is so old concert. you can watch the last episode of joanna sanchez interview right here on our t.v. on tuesday eleven thirty g.m.t. and of course you can catch all the previous episodes at a sun start r.t. dot com. back in two thousand and nine president obama put tourism on the agenda as a potential economy or advertising brand america across the world but the ambitious

plan hasn't managed to pull the jobs market out of a slump with june yet another week month for the struggling u.s. economy partner reports. america's economy was once like the strongest and fast this 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 to 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 world where the economy is growing 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 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 moving 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 equate to quality it does tend to create fairly low paid service industry jobs which doesn't tend to create great jobs having people in the business of manufacturing or high end services no medical services business services tends to create much higher quality or pay 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. well there are always more stories waiting for you at our t.v. dot com here's a quick taste. in time for a change the british prime minister paves the way for a possible referendum on the u.k.'s e.u. 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 hub for manned aerial vehicles. all right time now for a brief look at some other stories making headlines across the globe a gunman and outgunned police uniform has killed three nato staff in southern afghanistan he was injured and later arrested the incident 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's past 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 could not be maintained without atomic energy the country shut down all its nuclear plants after a meltdown at the fukushima plant triggered by last year's tsunami and earthquake. seventeen people have been killed with over forty wounded in simultaneous attacks on two churches in northeast kenya massed assailants launched gun and grenade raids the worst in the country since it sent troops into somalia to pursue all shabaab

militants since then islamists have been blamed for a string of blasts across kenya though they've never admitted to the violence in the country. or in mexico parliament. three results show the opposition candidate and rickets. house claim to victory in the country's presidential election has when means the return to power all the institutional revolutionary party which has had less friendly relations with the us then the party which has ruled mexico for the past twelve years the winners party had previously enjoyed seven decades and power but had gained a reputation for widespread corruption electoral fraud and all through terry and. the boundaries of the russian capital have been officially extended to the southwest as promised meaning the city has now more than doubled in area peter all over looks into what the expansion means for muscovites and for those who have now 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 off 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 southwest of the city and those involved in not project

will be hoping it could benefit from its out of sense of location and even compete with moscow city when it comes to attracting business but what is astonishing about the boundary changes is that as much as this is moscow now so is here as well listen leafy 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 do the locals here feel about becoming muscovites. which you fifty years i've been living here i think is bad for a villager if we go east to a family large. changes one can immediately think we'll see development take place

quickly in iran. now that we pull much of the city through every move that we're going to. i'm sure the projects i think it will be profitable this will create a new more school. if you will in some areas that the development is already do where you as 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. or to moscow. all right let's cross over to business with natasha at the desk well is it true that b.p. no longer wants to join north stream well that certainly seems to be according to commerce on daily all the details in just a couple of minutes but first let's check out the equity markets and we'll begin with europe where trade started less than twenty minutes ago and as you can see at the moment it's trading mixed the footsie started that's trading session slot to

positive in germany the dax is shedding value and that's following major gains on friday on all the news about the european bank saving plan that the e.u. leaders last week agreed that their rescue fund will inject cash directly into troubled banks and that they'll create a single body that will essentially oversee all of the euro zone a banking sector essentially what we're talking about here is the much anticipated european banking union now on to russia here in russia what we're seeing is a similar picture at the moment the indices are mixed the r.t.s. is trading want to negative while the my six is managing to give value and that's following a rally on friday when they gained five and a half three and a quarter percent respectively and crude prices on monday are shedding value that's following

a pretty good day on friday and. that saw the biggest price surge in about three years on friday apparently some see that as a profit taken opportunity at the moment is trading below eighty four dollars a barrel and staying with the oil sector he has given up on the idea of joining the north russia's subsidy gasoline to europe last week gazprom said the british company is interested in extending the nord stream pipeline to britain but commerce and deal reports the russian shareholders of t.n. insist the move should be done through its russian joined them and that something b.p. doesn't want to do last year t. had to be people walked the british companies deal with what's next saying it violated a cheerful new agreement to exclusively represent b.p. in russia and on the wall street on friday we also saw a very good day very robust gains in fact then asked that boosted its biggest daily

percentage gains since a las december of course the european news were the main driver overall the dow ended up gaining five point four percent for the first half of the year while the nasdaq posted gains of around thirteen percent that's not bad considering all the turmoil and that's not enough though to support the currency market all of the good news coming from europe at the moment the euro is shedding value against the u.s. dollar and of the russian ruble in the second hour of trading trading mixed to the currency basket it's losing value to the dollar and gaining to the european currency and that's the latest from the business desk all the news that are to dot com and i'll see you back here in fifteen minutes.

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