syria's opposition rejects and you pay steel to merge with the government because it doesn't present a sad from the transition. britain's a black box big brother ministers mull over installing internet devices which would store people private calls chancing messages. and fresh calls in the u.s. to prosecute the world's most famous whistleblower for spying ahead of julian assange just final talk show airing here on r.t. .

hello this is r t it's eight pm monday night now here in moscow my name is kevin zero in and first this hour the reports that syrian attack helicopters have bombarded a suburb of the capital damascus the rebels rebuffed the latest peace proposal for a unity government of talks between world powers in geneva the opposition insists the sad has to go the deal is to try and end the conflict that the u.n. says has now claimed more than ten thousand lives his artie's wrapping it all up for you today. i being 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 unanswered party boycotted may's 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 all the work of assad hands over control of the armed forces and security to the interim government 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 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. to middling galula said 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 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. or even optional r.t. from damascus and syria. so as well as the geneva peace proposal syria's opposition groups is still to overcome their differences to the arab league is hosting

a gathering in cairo to try to get the groups to unite and put the syrian people above their factional rose as a few times correspondent pepe escobar says the geneva reference would just talk the rebels back is regime change and they were unable to lay down arms station strong at best two months they have been heavily went to an ice 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 the international community which should be easy he 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 will not align movement nobody is fooled about it what the main players for in glee of swan's regime change in syria they have to pull some wool in front of the

international the so they have because she hadn't planned the have the geneva discussions and it's absolutely ridiculous because the brothers suing fights iran and saudi arabia which are boast major players in the syria situation it's ridiculous. pepe escobar their online records saw the latest global attempts to end serious conflict and also at r.t. dot com tonight japan goes back to nuclear energy despite the fukushima disaster pledge restarted a reactor after shutting them all down it may over security concerns following last year's tragedy we've got the latest on that is a lot of public discontent about that in japan also questions over the three major u.s. credit rating agencies tonight as an investigation into the methods is launched following the downgrade of fifteen global banks last month.

britain is on the verge of a where why big brother with internet and phone providers ready and black boxes to monitor private e-mails social network chats and even calls now the legislation is still in debate but the liberty alarm bells are already ringing over the government's hunger for a license to listen in is our london correspondent sara firth. with millions the c.c.t.v. cameras monitoring our every move with fingerprinting and facial recognition many people in britain feel that their privacy is being slowly eroded that we're turning into a know well in states where all armies and monitors the big brother is always watching the news about big brother but the u.k. government looks like it could be thirty in the near future plans to be repealed for life but since bush will be monitoring all our e-mails our telephone calls what

we're searching for online even our twitter and facebook accounts other black boxes that hold the state up to a year and allow the government access to it when they were conducting an investigation the government say is a vital tool in catching criminals as they become more technologically advanced but those opposed to it say that it would simply harm innocent people it's a preacher right and they should be able to throw into our private conversation mysteries to probably judge a few people all. the most of it but probably just going to ignore most or most if this passes into law is such a make person the most intrusive surveillance regime in the west many people are calling this an internet war saying that old government m.p.'s passing legislation to do with new connected to still ages simply making too many mistakes that there's a disconnect here and that these m.p.'s don't understand the need to two worlds and

that's having some quite severe consequences but one of the more sinister consequences of this we can see is the case of richard eight wire the twenty four year old university student he faces up to ten years in the u.s. prison over allegations of copyright offenses related to his u.k. website t.v. shack dot net is now the home of this day for mission for his extradition to this public opposition if i were kapadia found. jimmy wales launched recently an online petition to try and block the sex addition going had this already received in just a week more than two hundred thousand people signing on to that it seems in the internet war the u.k. public biting back and indeed we're told that we need to if we don't want to be avoid being caught in the ever widening net that could be set to make criminals of us law. the us justice department confirmed that wiki leaks remains the target of a criminal investigation comes as the head of the us senate intelligence committee

on the websites editor julian assange should be prosecuted for a spin the sun is currently hold doors embassy in london waiting for a decision on his political asylum bit of his lower smith reports. sanchez always maintained that what he fears the most is being extradited from sweden to america to face these charges of espionage and evidence is mounting with these renewed calls that we've heard this weekend from the head of the us senate intelligence committee she joins these calls for us arms to be prosecuted for espionage she says she's senator dianne feinstein and she said that knowingly obtained and disseminated information which could cause injury to the u.s. to cause serious harm to national security and should be prosecuted accordingly she said that he shouldn't be protected by the first amendment which of course which of course protects free speech and is ensure and in the constitution he says he calls

himself a journalist but he is no journalist he's an agitator intent on damaging the u.s. government we are hearing mixed messages coming out of the u.s. that possibly a little bit confused about what they want themselves. last week the u.s. foreign minister bob carr did. in quotes the removed evidence that there was a u.s. intention to prosecute but almost on the same day the u.s. justice department again confirmed there was a continued investigation into wiki leaks this all good. which of course is what has always wanted created a good relationship with the president of ecuador and it's believed that that relationship started when he interviewed him for his show which is currently forecasting on r.t. the final episode of that show broadcast here on r.t. on tuesday and this week's installment is an interview with the leader of the malaysian opposition he talked

a lot about his vision for malaysia going forward but also about the problem of islamophobia all over the world in leadership you want to do something. you must not be quite up. for democracy. yes there's too much more you talk about my. agent but you know these things. you have it now there will be with you you know is going to happen of the. you know the problem with this awful rooted in lead. times even the leaders in the west including destroy islam or for these. against this little policy of the state i mean i do. send. a scribe to the ideals this is the initial spirit of the american revolution and you can watch that whole program of course on r.t.

on cheese day starting at eleven thirty g.m.t. it's the last episode in the interview program said methot but a crack in the series that when it europe's new five hundred billion euro bailout fund could get stuck at the starting blocks now with germany's highest court looking into whether it's even legal the country's parliament approved the european stability mechanism of the tougher budget rules last friday but opponents say they contravene contradict german law let's get some perspective on this go to germany and talk to john holzman he's a president of a political risk consultancy john good to see you ok let's get your thoughts on it then you have just said the key complaint is that new funds liabilities for german taxpayers are irresponsible in these difficult times for everyone what would the implications be on taxpayers in germany. well ultimately what's going to happen is that they're going to have to backstop the hundred million dollars loan to spain which means the german taxpayers will be indirectly responsible and what the court case is about is the court gently telling the prime the prime the chancellor to

slow down because we live in a democracy and if there's any change in liability where power is devolved to brussels and directly the court says that the germans have to consult their parliament and indeed they have to have a referendum the last thing mrs america wants is to go to the people on these issues where obviously giving people money without conditions is not wildly popular well this has been a pet project of hers but surely she knew the rules didn't she. well she did but i mean part of the problem for her and she's in a terrible position is that she needs to move faster than the glacial pace of the twenty european summit markets can move money and with a flick of a keyboard millions of dollars so she know she has to go faster but if she goes too fast there isn't due process meaning there isn't time to deliberate over this in parliament and there isn't time then her judicial review in the courts so if she does move too fast she loses the very democratic democratic legitimacy which is vital if she's going to bring germany along with her so she's stuck between a rock and a hard place just to the words out of them out of those going to say she's stuck

between a rock and a place one of the chances there's no going through the. i think it's highly likely at the moment that the court lets it through but the warnings to her get shriller and shriller and at some point with this move liability there will be a limit to what the courts will do nobody knows where that line is and so mrs merkel has to tread very very carefully and this is the problem she's pressed by outsiders to get more money she's pressed to medically to give no money and eventually the rock and a hard place are going to lead to an almighty bang lot of people of course. teaming up with spain played a very clever. meeting on friday and the way it's all going to work out that the sets of eyeballs i'm struggling countries like spain and italy to keep those interest rates cool with no strings attached why are they being silly and spain to get something for nothing should they show something with. well i think part of the basic reason is i mean look at greece greece is two percent of the euro zone it's small enough that if it all goes wrong in theory it just might be handled spain and

italy if they were banks they'd be too big to fail the problem is that the fund wasn't increased and so it's stuck at the five hundred million euro mark and if italy and spain both go under and need a serious bailout plus bank recapitalization there isn't enough money and the bottom line is they know that so they're blackmailing mrs america by saying please don't make us jump off a cliff it is a. guess of me because she was between a rock and a hard place i suppose because chancellor merkel a couple of months ago said there would never be a condition that she seems to have gone back on i wouldn't she. well she's being dragged i mean the problem with the whole process is that mrs merkel says something will never happen and then three weeks later it happens and she's dragged kicking and screaming into doing it that's the worst of both worlds meaning she's never getting ahead of the she's never comprehensively solving the problem she's only being dragged by circumstances to continually go back on what she said which of course is the worst possible outcome it leaves people against giving anybody angry and it leaves the debtor countries angry which i think is really amazingly inept frankly just well we got you on the line for

a couple more seconds the way this is going to the new fund will give money straight to the banks whereas before it was going to the governments to the banks what's the difference there. the difference is an accounting trick if the money goes to the banks and doesn't go through the sovereign country they don't have to write it on their debt sheets and if they don't have to write it on their debt sheets spanish debt doesn't go to ninety percent it stays that eighty percent and that makes a huge difference to how markets look at it so it's a bit of an accounting trick but it matters intensely also it tries to break the link between bad banks and bad sovereigns because at the moment nobody can tell the difference between the two creative accounting i think they call it only political risk so if the journals when live from germany things have so much. i would big pleasure now a couple minutes ago we're talking about that story from britain the country on the verge or talking about at least of maybe installing these black boxes to monitor private e-mails let's get some thoughts on that now we've got to jim killers on the line he's an executive director of the open rights glue from shoot group and he's got some to say about this i know jim what exactly will the authorities be able to

snoop on if this legislation is passed at the end of the day. well they'll be able to see just about every bit of communication traffic that you make they won't restore the content of say phone messages or e-mail messages or bits of chat on facebook while they will do their record when and where you do the communications i perhaps even where you are in effect because they will keep things like the mobile location data of your mobile phone and also your internet address now your internet address pretty much tells you where you are as well if you are home or at work or moving about they basically sees where it is you are and therefore they'll be able to sort of map who your contacts are who your networks are if you're in a group of protesters are able to tell who that group of protesters is where they

meet where they are and if they're planning on meeting and they suddenly start converging they'll be able to tell exactly where they are again so this is sort of really exposing all kinds of things from potentially journalists sources through government whistleblowers to people talking to lawyers even business people trying to do business deals quietly before they make them public a lot of these things will be in that database ready for the police to get ahold of will find out and all of this is because. of all this in the name of cracking down on crime on criminals on terrorism but of course there is a worry then that criminals could actually get ahold of all this information that stored it or one of these service somewhere and it could all go badly wrong what safeguards are there to stop that happening what to do about it whether the there are meant to be safeguards with the bottom line is if you collect all of this information in one place and then create a sort of secret somewhat protected door for law enforcement to go and view the

data and to make queries then you set that door up to be broken into. and to find all the information for absolutely anybody on the internet and that means that there are going to be a lot of people from governments through to criminal gangs who are starting to think well you know this this could be really really useful to us you know why don't we have a go at it so you know you can set up as many security measures and you claim that you're going to put on all kinds of safeguards the bottom lightening is you know the government is creating a massive risk for every citizen and business in the country and all it can do is hope that whatever measures it was in place are going to be broken and of course all this is going to have a huge cost as well and the british government saying it needs these as a tool to catch criminals but it's the taxpayer is going to have to pay for it i guess why do you think that officials can find the cash for that when services like policing health care being so drastically cut in britain there's a question the government really if it really is serious about an internet crime

why isn't it investing in detecting that crime through employing police officers and trying to crack down on the gangs even within the u.k. who are doing this sort of fraud or pushing this sort of internet fraud why do they need to surveil every grandmother in the country at enormous cost just to see if they can find terrorists you know my grandmother is a terrorist or those who were her mother or information those alerts help us out through why why why what is it really all about. i think what is really about is power and ambition on the behalf of the home office they there's a group of people in the home office who deeply believe in the power of data and really think that they can get to do all kinds of new and interesting detection and algorithms to search for people and they see that therefore as a huge career opportunity and power within their own department i don't think that

this stands up to much examination and i think that's why the only governments pursued this so far are china kazakhstan and iran ok thanks ever so much been on the line with us there executive director of the open rights group jim killer on the line from the appreciative. thank you. the radio lawmakers have drafted a bill that would close the strait of hormuz to countries supporting a wall sanctions against iran the straits a vital shipping route for global trade the go on a rainy and oil came into effect yesterday and it's aimed at putting pressure on iran over its nuclear activities but france says it's still selling oil thanks to america are extending waivers to several countries including china and singapore iran stockpiled money in imported goods in order to try to buffer the impacts of the embargo author and journalist i should returns he 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 latin america or knows notably china because the us has exam to china and the chinese foreign

minister is already on record as saying that these unilateral 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 that the united states presumably again lobbied by israel which is 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 certainly going to make not only the euro but european finances suffer so you know this isn't going to help the world economy and it's certainly not having any impact on iran. more world news brief and a man dressed in a police uniform is open fire in southern afghanistan it's killed three british troops the shooting happened at a checkpoint in helmand province where the sole are attending a meeting of tribal elders the government was injured and later detained four hundred twenty two british soldiers have died in afghanistan since two thousand and one. to walk crimes court lawyers are to be released after twenty six days

detention in libya they've been under house arrest since visiting well michael duffy son in prison and allegedly sharing documents that libya says compromise national security saif al islam faces trial over the deadly suppression of protester in the libyan uprising which top of his father but the i.c.c. is concerned he won't get a fair hearing in libya. the chairman of britain's third largest bank has quit its over interest rate fixing that saw homeowners and businesses charge for loans during the credit crunch marcus agius is leaving after regulators slapped a four hundred fifty three million dollar fine on barclays for skewing the rate which banks lend to others of the british major banks are also being investigated. as well as continue with business now dimitri's at the business testified that b.p. story still it's not going to team up then with gazprom after all what's the latest it's not as basically abandoned the idea of joining the nord stream pipeline

project which is the gas link between russia and europe or last week what we had was gas from saying the rich company is interested in joining this project extending nords to great britain but the russian shareholders of he insisted that the move should be done through that company through the russian joint venture and that's something that b.p. doesn't want to do here's an explanation by the head of the national energy security. music remain between b. b. and it's going to flow show me is not bob is not transparent that is why we see a lot of discussions between two companies for example. i think that it's impossible to sell fifty percent then got to be other possible but not if he is thinking that it is possible to sell fifty percent to other companies but not. the same story it is about this agreement. well let's take

a look at what's going on the markets and manufacturing has come in with a contraction in the united states which hasn't happened since july two thousand and nine and that's obviously seen as a pessimistic signs but we're seeing moderate drops on the dow and on the nasdaq in europe the situation's a bit different the hype continues from that surprisingly productive e.u. summit last week and we're seeing the footsie end of x. gave more than one percent one and a quarter close barclays is actually leading the gains of after its chairman resigned now chinese banks became the most profitable lenders last years according to the bank of magazine the magazine says chinese and the counters were almost a third of the total profit in two thousand lebanese had just four percent five years ago analysts say china's banks are breathing in the next of the struggling european peers eating into their market share and here's a bank account of forty six percent of the global profit in two thousand and seven

that figure dropped to six percent last year the crisis is obviously eating into profits and commodities right now on a big good steep decline and that's the despite the fact that sanctions have come into place against iran and therefore europe is not buying iranian oil and now there are reports as we've been saying of iran mulling a bill to block the strait of hormuz which is vital for whale exports and for the whole. the middle east area we're still seeing oil prices drop because if investors really took this into account as a threat to global supply we'd have world prices rise. on the russian stock market we've seen the gains despite low oil prices that's of course because well prices have been can reconnect correcting technically in a way after a huge jump on friday now moving the my six world financial stocks especially d.t.b.

up almost three percent how rosser was up on profit results and bash nabbed up more than one percent after saying it's investing into iraq you will feel. that's all i have for you this hour except for these currencies over here euro dropping against the dollar meanwhile the russian ruble is mixed against the boss concerned he's dropping in value against the dollar and gaining slightly versus the euro and as i started saying i'll be back next hour with an update good stuff could see it on the way does nuclear fuel have a future after fukushima russia's top atomic official tells us what he thinks about that after the headlines with the next.

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