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

thank you for joining our team here at twelve o'clock here in moscow i'm karen tara this monday we start you off with syria's opposition which has rejected the new international plan to and the country's bloody internal conflict they say they don't want president assad to be part of the political transition a meeting in geneva international powers agreed that the syrian people are to decide the fate of the country and there are no demands for regime change arches more if a national 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 their side in power as allowed in the geneva agreement homebase a 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 handed 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 know everyone agrees some say the syrian opposition is too fragmented to be trusted larp could be and only those who really want dialogue should be thought of as legitimate opposition and who is that there'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 but we cannot understand what the opposition wants apart from assad to go what else. i mean like kelly almost said are 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 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 to read 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. of the against observations while foreign countries are financing and supporting the rebels but it seems that no matter how much international game playing there 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 original r.t. from damascus and syria. peace efforts at the geneva conference are just talk says

asia times correspondent pepe escobar who believes the rebels and the parties backing them only want regime change and they are unable to lay down arms station because from the best two months they have been heavily weaponized by ball saudi arabia and counter so just like the original coffee annan plan it was bound to fail from the beginning what is being discussed in geneva he's also bound to say it's for show it's to tell the international community which basically is a few nato countries the us israel and always lead the russians and the chinese and the bric countries are not full by it and most of the developing world they're no nonaligned movement nobody's fooled about it what these main players for in glee of swan's regime change in syria they have to pull some wool in front of the international room to so they have a coffee an unplanned they have the geneva discussions and it's absolutely

ridiculous because the only little buggers doing fights iran and saudi arabia which are both major players in the syria situation it's ridiculous. meanwhile turkey isn't letting the tension is on its frontier with syria sending six fighter jets to the area and qatar says it's in response to helicopter 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 claim 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. libya's questionable headway towards democracy reels

under a crushing blow as protesters tear an election of already all this into pieces in the very birthplace of last year's rising. and the unprecedented sanctions against iran are now in force but will they succeed in making tough abandon its nuclear ambitions find out in a few minutes right here on our team. 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-mail social networking activity and calls and store data for a year now the authorities insist that only limited details will be kept but activists are raising privacy concerns. explains. well the home office will tell you that they need this as 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 who you are taking your 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 the government as saying they need to it's being nicknamed the sneakers charter was the home office say that they're not going to actually be storing the contents of that information this information that would be kept in these like 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 they would be able very easily to access the content of that and of course

that causes a huge concern amongst the british population were already living in an age and certainly in the u.k. where we're monitored every single day by millions as c.c.t.v. cameras we've got facial recognition time and again in surveys the u.k. ranks right up there the very top of the surveillance society we've been speaking to some of the people online and on our twitter and asking them what they think about this latest measure people are very very unhappy about these proposals we have one person saying that sounds very sinister if i don't like it one vest and another person on twitter who responded said it reminds us of a u.s. 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 of course it all sounds a bit all well and doesn't having this sort of to tell a tyrion state the mass surveillance that justified in terms. the greater good while big brother might not be watching us the u.k. government could be set in the near future. the e.u.

embargo of iranian oil is now in place along with fresh u.s. sanctions against countries dealing with talk raw measures are aimed at pressurizing iran to curb its nuclear program the islamic republic so however 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 and singapore author and journalist afshin rattansi 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 in love america or lose notably chilling because it was the u.s. 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 thirty five percent back to two thousand and eleven levels it seems

a state presumably again lobbied by israel which seems to be running its foreign policy well to do this at the same time is the great economic crisis in europe is causing havoc increase oil prices is 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 the road still to come this hour it's four years on since 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 a merging economy and creating your child's in his own country. and europe's largest city just got two times bigger in size former president jimmy jimmy to be divs proposal to expand moscow is bound to. has been put into place we have the details in just a few minutes. scores of armed men seeking autonomy for libya's been

ghazi have raided the city's electoral commission office trash 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 are conscious as the attack shows just how far libya actually is from democracy the elections are about to come about in libya 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 would lead to you know that a healthy democracy will be taking place are absent so what we have is 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 and by by dint of the pigmentation of their skin to gadhafi we have intertribal 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 this is far

from any basis of a true people focus democracy but this is the nature of the n.t.s.c. nato democracy and this is the nature of the democracy that nato want to bring to all the peoples of the global south. thirty minutes past the hour now and a u.s. senator has renewed calls for julian assange to be prosecuted for espionage australian media reports that u.s. senate intelligence committee head dianne feinstein has reiterated that the whistleblower has compromised america's security songes 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 right here on our t.v. . 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 caught up.

in these the art of compromise i'm not seeing that you know your political philosophy dictating issues but. this at the ground groups that you have to accept it don't you know i mean you are the woman you see you are due for democracy you become the west is. when we talk about meghan only you become a. soros agent but you know these things. if you have it know their woman to be with you you know is going to happen of the. but i think you know people you know the problem with authority and indeed. even the leaders in the west including destroy islam or for these. and we against them this. policy of the states i mean the i do. sense that the. ascribe to the idea of use this nation spirit 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 our old concert. watch last episode of joanna sondra center official here on r.t.e. on tuesday eleven thirty g.m.t. you can of course watch all the previous episodes at a sound started dot com. back in two thousand and nine president obama put tourism on the agenda as a potential economy booster 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 marina partner has the story. 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 the 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 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 big apple 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 burdett for the buying power of u.s. citizens customers armed with a stronger currency is growing and prices from dropping 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 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 who creates one. 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 no medical services business services tends to create much higher quality or pay jobs and tourism which tends to create a law jobs for people cleaning hotel rooms and serving meals 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. paralyze more stories waiting for you at our tea dot com here's a quick peek of what we have. time for a change british prime minister paves the way for a possible referendum on the u.k.'s 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 that 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 nineteen minutes past the hour time for a brief look at some other stories making headlines across the globe it's been confirmed to the three nato soldiers killed in southern afghanistan by a man in an afghan police uniform were british the attacker 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 pass from nato to afghan security forces and 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 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 masta stale and 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 have never admitted to the violence in the country. in mexico preliminary results show the opposition candidate and greek pena nieto has claimed a victory in the country's presidential election has 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 had previously enjoyed seven decades in power that had gained a reputation for widespread corruption electoral fraud and offer tarion rule. boundaries of the russian capital have been officially extended to the southwest as promised meaning the city has now more than doubled in the 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 no moscow has gotten even bigger from the first of july a huge chunk of what had been the moscow region is now being 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 southwest of the city and those involved in that project will be hoping it can benefit from its out of center 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

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 who are pushing me to believe i've been living here i think is bad for a villager to our farming launching a new movie stage the changes one can immediately see the tree think we'll see development take three three k. now ready and now that i think that in the city you do in the name of the overcast i think it's positive i'm all for the project i think it will be profitable but this will create a new moscow for the money for him to feel well in some areas the development is already underway as you can see from the forest of upon. the 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. cross over to our business desk natasha our equity markets extending last week's rally well it's certainly starting to look that way this hour let's check out the actual numbers you'll see for yourself over in europe we see that the footsie is trading in the block while the dax is still staying in the red and european indices are trading in the mixed territory following a major rally on friday that's on the news about the european bank savings plan the e.u. leaders agreed to to let their rescue fund inject cash into the troubled banks directly and they also agreed to create a single body that will receive all of the eurozone banking sector and essentially

we're talking about the much anticipated european banking union and now on to the russian markets here what we're seeing is a pretty pictures you can see the my sex is really managing to put on one and a quarter percent of our the r.t.s. is seeing more modest losses but it's gaining almost one percent and now on to the biggest movers on the bisects and they include the financials that are rebounding from earlier losses including this bear bank which is now trading almost more than a quarter percent and still under pressure as a diamond producer all of that's despite the company's announcement that it doubled its profit and of course a bust nafta is also down and that's after the company reported that a little bit invest one hundred twenty million dollars into its first international project in the oil fields in iraq and the crude prices are. under pressure this

monday morning that's following a big rally on friday in fact that saw the biggest daily gain in about three years and apparently some see that as a profit taking opportunity and to stay with the oil sector b.p. has given up on the idea of joining the nord stream rushes into europe last week gazprom said the british companies interested in extending the nord stream pipeline to britain but commerce on daily reports the russian shareholders of c n t b.p. insists the move should be done through its russian joint venture and that's not something that b.p. wants to do right now last year to block the british company's deal with last nafta saying it violated its shareholder agreement to exclusively represent beef tea in russia and back to the equity markets wall street will open in a few hours and it did quite well on friday in fact and then asked that posted its

biggest daily percentage gain since december and overall the dow finished five point zero four percent gains in the first half of the year while the nasdaq posted a gain of almost thirteen percent which is not bad considering all the turmoil and wall all this good news coming out of europe late last week helped the equity market it's certainly not helping the european currency certainly not this monday afternoon the euro is under pressure it's losing value against the u.s. dollar and the russian ruble is shedding against both the euro and the dollar and that's all the latest from the business desk i'll be back in about fifteen minutes but you can catch all the latest. business all right thanks for that update. now nuclear energy is in focus in our interview shortly but first i'll bring you the headlines.

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