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hello this is r t it's nine pm monday night here in moscow my name's kevin oh in our top story there are reports that syrian attack helicopters of bombarded a suburb of the capital damascus but a rebel stronghold was stormed two days ago no word on casualties yet about that earlier rebel groups rebuffed last week's peace proposals for a unity government though talks between world powers in geneva that deal was a good ending the conflict which the u.n. says is now claimed more than ten thousand lives is artie's maria fanaa. 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 and see 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 us

are 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 had been the 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 of 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 milling galula said 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 been. the covert and open support of nations who demand regime change and to back 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 disagree and 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. stubs of violence while foreign countries are financing and supporting the rebels but it seems that no matter how much international game playing there rees 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 the 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. as well as the problems with the geneva peace proposal

syria's opposition groups are trying to overcome the differences right now at a meeting in cairo the arab league called on the groups to unite and put the syrian people above their factional rabs the sticking point though how to end both the bloodshed and president assad's rule sharma no one is in beirut she's not only still the middle east for oxford university very pleased to have them aligned tonight show me is there any chance do you think the geneva talks will finally bring the stability to syria that is needed and unite the government with the opposition or is it part of the sky. well i think you know i think the media and pundits seem to want everything to be wrapped up in a neat little bow it's not the way it works. this is a small incremental step two words a national unity government and national reconciliation and it all depends on the willingness of parties to compromise and step forward

currently we're not hearing very much from the syrian government and although the rhetoric is that the opposition rejects. rejects the you know the transitory process. that's not in fact true with the domestic opposition is a whole different animal than what exists outside and so we have to be very careful in how we we frame what. you know what's going on now as we move forward of course there are possibilities depend greatest step up and make compromises so many layers of player on the show i mean plenty of talks on the go throughout the month the arab league's in cairo now and then there's more to follow of course between moscow the un envoy kofi annan and the opposition but all these meetings going to convince the rebels to compromise about ousting assad that is one of the big crux is here isn't it. yes it is and i don't think we have to look at the rebels we really need to move away from looking at the rebels who are largely foreign backed . as as the only opposition in town there is

a dynamic and diverse domestic opposition and i think it's incumbent upon the media and different players to pull out these voices certainly many of them have travel to moscow and other capitals in in the last six months or so to to let their voices be heard and we have to we have to pull them out of obscurity so to speak right now let's just focus a bit on president assad for a moment president has been able let's face it to end the hostilities him selve on to his regime. he's still again the solutions imposed from outside but you kind of off at this stage with all the deaths all the bloodshed that continues it may be simplistic but what's his problem in accepting the international mediation efforts . i don't think he has the problem in accepting mediation at all i mean don't forget he still is the president of a country and i think the issue here is sovereignity first the government of syria house to ensure the safety of civilians and protect infrastructure before they move

on to the next step i mean you can't rush to the second step without the first so i think there has to be a deescalation of violence inside syria before you can move on what's the point of having peace talks when there are bombs going off in various cities and civilians and soldiers getting killed alike so i think he's right to consider that there needs to be a process and we're rushing ahead of ourselves if we think we can avoid avoid settling syria before getting on to reconciliation and a transitional government what about the geneva statement it says quote syrians must decide for themselves whether a course reports that the cia is coordinating weapons movement with lies in the rebels kind of undermines those international efforts doesn't it. it certainly does and i think you know if the goal is deescalation and violence in order to move to political reconciliation we have to consider first supporting the violence on the

ground and it's still a number of western countries and a number of arab states particularly in the gulf countries we cannot move forward in this process until that part has been taken care of and it's unfortunate that iran and saudi arabia were not including the geneva talks saudi arabia is a major supporter of arming and supporting the militias inside syria this process and the rhetoric behind it that comes largely from the last house to be unraveled before moving forward just to get. thoughts on what's happening on potentially very. border with. guns being installed along the border up to syria cools down its jets over a week ago it's a potential flashpoint isn't it how is that going to develop. it is a potential flashpoint but you know and you know in the middle east it just takes one incident to set off a whole stream of others but i think you know turkey is

a calculating player as is syria nobody wants this to get out of control i think turkey really needs to prevent this from becoming a school a tory for itself i mean there was a poll taken last week or two that showed two thirds of the turkish population are against any kind of military situation with syria and more than half of those. strong words coming out of it. sure there is but it's posturing i mean this is the way of you know international politics unfortunately these days you keep the rhetoric there it's the sort of the carrot and stick approach you know you raise the rhetoric to create pressures unfortunately it doesn't work i think it tends to make people contract pull in and become more intransigent so it's not very effective but i don't think there's much turkey can

do right now it threatens its own regional interests with neighboring countries and beyond if this escalates into any military confrontation with syria and it's not popular with its populations either thanks for being with us tonight political shall be no one in lebanon thank you. britain's on the verge of a web wide big brother with internet and phone providers readying black boxes now to moments of private email social network chats and even calls the legislation is still in debate but the liberty alarm bells were already ringing over the government's hunger for a license to listen in is a london correspondent sara. 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 an oh well ian state where all armies are monitored 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 rebuilt for

life but since bush will be monitoring all our emails our telephone calls what we're searching for online even our twitter and facebook accounts other black boxes that hold the states 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 our. right and they should be able to throw into our private conversation misdoings to probably judge a few people. for most of it but probably just going to ignore most or most if this passes into law is such to make a person the most intrusive surveillance regime in the west many people are calling this an internet war saying that old government m.p.'s causing legislation to do

with new connected to still age is a 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 most 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 a u.s. prison over allegations of copyright offenses related to his u.k. website t.v. shack dot net it's now the home office day for mission for his extradition to this public opposition fight with a pedia founded. jimmy wales launched recently an online petition to time block the sex addition going ahead there's already received in just a week more than two hundred thousand people signing on to that feeling in the internet while u.k. public biting back and indeed we're told that we need to if we all want severe avoid being caught in the ever widening that it could be set to make criminals of

us all well i spoke to us from the open rights group who told me that if passed the law will put british people sensitive information at risk from online fraud this is sort of really exposing all kinds of things very potentially journalists sources through government whistleblowers to people talking to their lawyers even business people trying to do business deals quietly before they make them public a lot of these things will be in the database ready for the police to get hold of will find out 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 backdoor 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 might need is you know the government is creating a massive risk for every citizen and business in the country. jim killer coming up on r t still ahead paying the price for helping in neighborhoods europe's new five hundred billion euro bailout fund could it the puppets as angry germans demand to know why they're digging deep for other countries debts but no return. next the u.s. justice department confirms that wiki leaks remains the target of a criminal investigation it comes as the head of the u.s. senate intelligence committee said the website's editor julian his son should be prosecuted for espionage charges currently holed up at ecuador's embassy in london waiting for a decision on his political asylum bid artie's laura smith but she up today. 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 oversight 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. has caused 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 insurance 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. in quotes to remove 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 could. 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. for democracy. but the more you talk

about market konami you become. 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. you know the problem with this awful rooted in the does it. even the leaders in the west including destroy. these. we against them this. policy of the states i mean i do. sense that the. scribe to the idea was this initial spirit of the american revolution or 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 so don't miss it exactly will be streaming online as well europe's new five hundred billion euro bailout fund could get stuck at the starting blocks with germany's highest court looking into whether it's even legal the country's parliament approved the european stability mechanism

and they used tougher budget rules on friday but opponents say they contradict german law political risk consultant john hulsman told me the same as yet another example of chancellor merkel going back on a word. the problem with the whole process is that mrs americal 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 this 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 mean is really amazingly enough frankly she needs to move faster than the glacial pace of the twenty european 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 and it will review in the courts so if she does move too fast she loses the very 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. the radio because of drafted a bill that would close the strait of hormuz to countries supporting. against the strait is a vital shipping route for global trade the go and ready to come into effect yesterday and is saying to putting pressure on iran over its nuclear activities but turan says it's still selling oil thanks to a medicare extending waivers to several countries including china and singapore around money and imported goods to in order to buffer the impacts of. all third journalist option 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 those notably china because it was the u.s. has exam to china and the chinese foreign minister is already on record as saying that these unilateral sanctions are outrageous 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 this isn't going to help the world economy and it's certainly not having any impact on iran top world news headlines now a man dressed in police uniforms opened fire in southern afghanistan left three british troops dead the shooting happened at a checkpoint in helmand province where the soldiers were attending a meeting of tribal elders the government was injured and later detained forty two sorry four hundred and twenty two pretty soldiers have died in afghanistan since two thousand and one. two war crimes court lawyers have been arrested in libya

after twenty six days detention they've been under house arrest since visiting one the gadhafi son imprisoned and allegedly sharing documents that libya says compromise national security saif al islam faces trial over the deadly suppression of protests during 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 it saw home owners of businesses over charged 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 each other major british banks are also being investigated to. moscow's boundaries of broadening out the city's officially more than doubled its size it could mean millions of people swapping their capitals notorious gridlock for the green fields of the southwest artist peter oliver explains why. 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 back to 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 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 this leap event age 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 fifty years i've been living here i think is bad for a villager to a farming life. to mistake the changes lincoln immediately victory think will see development take place cricket in our area and now that we're part of the city there are many of them were going to i think is positive i'm all for the project i

think it will be profitable this will create a new moscow for them and for him to feel well and some areas of 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 peter all of r.t. moscow. with this go to business no sure way to retreat is the new center business desk once again b.p. in the spotlight bringing some today well it's now is basically abandoned the idea of joining north stream the pipeline project which links russia with europe and gas from last week's at the british company was interested in extending the north stream pipeline to great britain but the russian shareholders of. this move should be done frew its russian joint venture and that's something b.p. does not want to do well consultancy one of head of the national energy security fund says the situation is indeed complicated. music greenman between b.p.

and if they are going for strong is not bubbling is not transparent that is why we see a lot of discussions between two companies for example if i sink in that it's impossible to sell fifty percent then got to be. possible but b.p. is thinking that it is possible to sell fifty percent to other companies but not. the same story it is about this agreement. secondly what's going on on the global stock markets jones is down a third of a percent because of manufacturing stats coming in on the line in the in the month of june and that has not happened since july two thousand and nine indicating basically that a recession is now more likely in the largest economy in the world nasdaq is slightly in positive territory in europe the hype continues from last week as the

e.u. summit turned more productive than it was expected so we're seeing for the other acts gaining more than one percent and a quarter with barclays in the leaders and chairman steps down up to be on live incident now also chinese banks have become the most profitable lenders lost years according to the bank a magazine now it says the chinese lenders accounted for almost a third of the total profit in two thousand levon that's compared to just four percent five years ago and the same chinese banks are breathing in the next of the struggling european peers eating into their market share here is own bank account of a forty six percent of the global profit two thousand and seven that figure dropped to six percent last year. on the commodities markets where we're seeing the oil dropping right now and does this by the fact that sanctions have now come into force against iran basically limiting the supply of oil onto the market but this is not affecting the price it's basically technically dropping after

a huge increase on friday and this is not worrying investors into the russian stocks as you can see there the growth continued today despite the. drop in the crude price my sense was driven by financials with b.c.b. gaining almost three percent stake a look at those main movers also interesting stories out there was up better than the markets are reporting their profits last year more than doubled and bash never does up more than one percent of the us saying that it would burst our g twenty billion dollars into iraq you will feel the way the markets like this i'll be back next course with carefully following the strait of hormuz story as well from iran been next week or so when it ok thanks for that no headlines and shortly thereafter russia's far west to get closer to kaliningrad is here on r.t. .

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