it would be soo much brighter if you knew me by the song from feinstein pression. he starts on t.v. dot com. international diplomacy over syria hates up with special envoy kofi annan in moscow to seek help in ending the bloody crisis and the global deadlock. russia says its foreign partners all doing enough to use their influence to help bring about to the bloodshed in syria join me in a few moments more on this. american child support for egypt's new the elected islamist president threatens to strain its relations with israel as hillary clinton moves from cairo to tell of a top level towards iran and. it would be problems with electricity water supply chain i want to make sure we could break out this time when many will

be structured. that doomsday desperation all c.d.c. austrian would obviously be most pessimistic outlook for the future of living in the usa. international news and comment live from moscow this is all he was me thanks for joining us u.n. special envoy kofi annan will seek russia's help in ending the conflict in syria during a two day visit to moscow the talks come at a crucial time as violence in syria spirals and world powers remain deadlocked over how to resolve the crisis and let's now talk to our he's all about peace or what exactly were discussed with russia's top officials and what can we expect to come from these meetings. will come. feet ons in moscow as he steps up his campaign for

peace in syria as bloodshed continues to rage across the country long said that russia is a major player in the peace process and we're expected to hear from russian foreign minister sergei lavrov a little later on where he will reiterate russia's support for was discussed in geneva a couple of weeks ago that would see both sides of the conflict both the syrian government troops on the opposition forces lay down their weapons and come to the table for talks so we could also hear some criticism from such a gale of roles leveled at some of russia's international partners in the peace process particularly those western partners that have influence over the opposition russia doesn't think this. is a doing enough to put pressure on the opposition to put down their weapons now currently we're seeing the u.n. security council in deadlock those two resolutions on the table that could be voted on all of those things put forward by russia and we would see an extension of the

u.n. monitoring program on the ground in syria the the second of those resolutions put forward by western countries and would focus on assad only and on the assad government saying that they have ten days in which to adhere to the kofi annan peace plan otherwise action would be taken now since the resolution only focuses on one side which is something that russia said can't be done it's extremely likely and almost definite in fact that if that goes to a vote russia will it use their veto and it's interesting to note though that every time we've seen one of these major diplomatic meetings b.s.f. the security council votes kofi annan coming here to moscow we see a spike in violence on the ground in syria this time no different we're seeing fresh fighting close to the capital damascus and it just seems that every time as long as i beg you pardon the foreign powers calm to greet a solution to the. how to tackle syria how to go forward on syria it's the syrian

people that continue to pay the price in blood. thank you very much indeed for that update on. the international red cross has officially declared the syrian conflict a civil war that means competence could be up for prosecution for potential war crimes under international law and defense analysts. believe the change in the conflict status could be used by some foreign powers to the interests it will be interesting to see how far would that go. to be pursued for the western powers are going to try to highlight the actions label this government is try to seek. to prosecute to for work members perhaps of the. military wash it took was. that they want through what they call regime change and therefore they want to raise any pressure or blame for overseeing that

could be set against it to try to raise the pressure before russia and china so that it would allow more sanctions that perhaps. they just want to reduce change but that's why in the opportunity that presents itself real or true they are going to accuse damascus who probably don't. ok following developments from inside syria maria free notion posting what she's witnessing on twitter so check before reactions from the syrian people as well as pictures from the stricken country.

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we want to present. something of. resistance not of politics but a culture. this could. cultures of resistance. welcome back the u.s. secretary of state isn't a zero the final destination in her asian nation talk of europe asia and the middle east hillary clinton's visit comes on the heels of a trip to egypt where sure how talks with the new elected president and armed

forces chief clinton's egypt visit was marred by anti-american protests that culminated in demonstrate his throwing tomatoes shoes and horrible tolls at her coat and the port city of alexandria but despite the cold reception by locals the u.s. seems to find common ground with egypt's new islamist leadership something that certainly warring america's long time ally israel has a policy explains. high on the agenda is her recent trip to to egypt and her meeting with the egyptian president mohamed morsi it certainly sends out a strong message that washington believes it is important to engage with the new president as early on as possible the need for a miniature support there. very clear. for the muslim brotherhood for president morsi we have no other choice but to speak with. the with and we've got the united states is certainly

trying to find its way in the region in light of the recent changes of the arab spring but in some respects it's done an almost one hundred eighty degree turn around that in two thousand and five when the even the us secretary of state condoleezza rice went to cairo she emphatically stated that the united states would have nothing to do with the muslim brotherhood certainly the united states is having to find new friends it's abandoning old friends and it's creating new problems and as it forges closer friendships with regimes such as the muslim brotherhood in egypt it needs to calm israeli fears about the changes in the region that are seeing increased muscle flexing of islamised fundamentalist regimes the israelis are so concerned by the situation that recently the israeli defense forces placed and aid of planes system back treat near its border in southern israel with egypt it's worth noting that as the united states moves closer to islamist forces

in north africa and the middle east it's almost sitting up its old ally israel by creating more forces that are hostile to the jewish state policy r.t. tell of of. egypt's new leaders and the country is polarized politics is also the focus of crosstalk coming later on r.t. and he is also ahead. what's the point of having elections if you're elected and you can't sit in your position of power what's the point of having elections. but you know we're in a situation transition i mean we're talking about a country that hasn't had the markers to and thousands of years they had successful elections that they had to say a lot of going around that's going on right now it's part of the process obviously it may fail i mean we know that but but if if we go if we play it out in sequence when it's likely. it's likely to as a foundation for this process then there are possibilities that it can succeed and

there has to be negotiations between the military and president morsi stephen thinks that what we're watching is a transition is a muddy transition where people are stumbling around making mistakes and having teaching moments that though them grow from i'm not sure that we're in the midst of a transition we might be in the midst of a retrenchment i. i . i. america's trust in the mainstream media is that an old time love according to a recent gallup opinion poll the growing discontent is opening the door for a different kind of journalism very important i explain. venning goodness statics round the clock operations a product always being exported america's mainstream news industry generates power and profits but it seems partisan reporting and frequent gaffes may have made many

americans turn away from the big broadcasters when they are. writing the revolution going our across. and headline is. going to work that program where are a recent gallup poll shows an all time low of only twenty percent of the public trusting the news many say this means citizen journalism is becoming a big game changer but the amazing thing about training citizens to be really good pundits is that they they have a wealth of information that journalists just don't have when you help them connect what they know are exposed to their experience with a big picture. political event it's very powerful what that journalist and best selling author and i only wolf not only supports citizen journalism she and business partner lisa thomas have built

a nonpartisan training ground for it it's called daily klout dot com we're not just teaching people to vent we're training people to write rigorous shapely opinion pieces which are eight hundred words long and also to source their assertions we also teach them how to link what they're exposing are calling for with action steps. daily klout also features a legislative search engine that monitors and explains bills making their way to capitol hill a tool allowing everyday people to hold federal state and corporate leaders accountable when america's fourth estate fails to i think the mainstream media has become about entertainment. and. so concerned who holds the purse strings if the mainstream media is controlled by large corporate interests they're going they're beholden to them but this website is independently financed giving tens of thousands of citizens the freedom to report on topics many news networks are

accused of suppressing i think one of the best ways you can judge the state of democracy is an approach immediately hates and i think if you heard of the situation where the citizens of the country are actually bypassing the mainstream media i think that says a lot of the stage of democracy critics however argue that only properly educated and experienced journalists should be intrusted with understanding the rigors and ethics involved in news reporting but even then. there is no guarantee the public will receive facts the supreme court justices have struck down the individual mandate in order unconstitutional the direct blow to the president united states a direct blow to his democratic party the individual mandate has been struck down it has been struck down no it has not. stopped.

you as mass media still maintains and stronger and wider reach that citizen journalism but it no longer holds the power to determine what the public is good baby doing or even reporting about green up or not artsy new york. that i see always has the full story on the news day others might miss that auto comb and here's some a lot of go for you right now that. tokyo take to japan for that imagine see capital as a precaution against a possible future disaster. and car raid takes out the filmmaker and human rights activists for trying to capture the crackdown on camera all the details available for you right now are not. wealthy british style it's just not on.

the. market why not. candy. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kaiser report on r t so for assistance a new job the rates of. the raise of leukemia for example a thirty eight times. breast cancers more than ten times told cancers fourteen times i will forget the exact details but the shoes numbers there's not nothing that you have ever found in any epidemiological study anywhere ever there is a way that brings victory. to its creator. he's not alone some are more severe than others we have something that is born without

skulls without organs and sometimes with their legs totally to mr blood means death to those who it's pointed cut back now. owns to those who choose this window. and they're celebrating and they don't realize that stand looking at their own future can't so i'm in this is just. it's so sad. i have. leakage and i show you to the extent how much i have leakers. let's move on german chancellor angela merkel has once again assured e.u. citizens that the block is on the path to recovery but many europeans are

unconvinced and are bracing themselves for an economic doomsday reports it seems like a place where the grass is always green and where every cloud has a silver lining but even in this a deal exciting in western austria there are fears of an economic boom as they. put the last few years has been converting his house into a fully self-sufficient residence and his reasons are purely economic influence on economists who got the worst case scenario preparing for is the total collapse of the economy there would be problems with food electricity water supply so i want to make sure we could wait out this time when money will be worthless. solar panels wind turbine an emergency generator he's now producing more than two thirds of the power he needs the cows in the garden should provide a backup if supermarkets go. and in case of fuel shortages there is also

a radial turn in chief. while this scenario may seem to apocalyptic we hill billies the euro collapse and the ensuing social upheaval is a matter of when rather than if the. politicians keep talking about decreasing debts but what they do is just to prove. that a new steps no new solutions and what to do about this whole situation the rude awakening is coming we all hope to postpone it but eventually it will come and. still he asked us to change his name and not to give out his address out of concern that in case of the total collapse his europe ruth refuge will be inundated by the angry and hungry donors the fears are not entirely foreign to many europeans especially of an older generation this part of the world peers to be arrived at their forefront of the cold war and preparing for the worst was part of the government's contingency plans but the idea that calamity may come from them in

europe rather than outside is relatively new and therefore all the more frightening after day kids of increasing crisp area the thought of losing basic comforts is still rather hard to take in for many northern europeans but on the other hand a few years ago their southern neighbors couldn't imagine that soup kitchens would become so popular in greece or that food aid would be in such demand in spain some people say the gold care for the government. i'm responsible for myself let's say about fifty percent of the. citizens may think in this way. but the majority will say no government we pay our taxes and so for we expect that we get. supplied by the government while the initial enthusiasm behind the euro project was at least partially based on the rx to reach esteem an increasing number of europeans are now fearing the opposite transition in the weaker artsy. from western

australia and next hour we speak to british business mogul who sponsored a prize for the best stance on how to manage a euro break up and for him letting the troubled states quit the monetary union is inevitable. i can't see how a country whose interest rate is being held at levels that are miles above its growth rate come possibly escape the state without at some point defaulting devaluing some of that debt and starting again until greece and spain can be competitive in the national market i don't see how the politicians will cling to their ideals america on this and for as long as they possibly can but in the end the weight of economics always wins politics never trumps economic. and let's now take a look at some other stories making news around the world one of the second world

wars most wanted criminals has reportedly been found in hungary but this last trick child to read he's now ninety seven sent over fifteen thousand jews to auschwitz while working as a police commander in the slovakian ghetto if that's to canada under a new identity after being sentenced to death but his disguised was revealed and he went on the run again and has been in hiding for over fifteen years. afghanistan's education minister has survived a roadside bomb attack in the north he tried the third rather assault on a top government official in as many days officials say the explosive was similar to those usually used by the taliban on sunday a suicide blast at the wedding claimed twenty lives including a prominent member of the afghan parliament and close ally of president karzai. violent deaths are frequent in afghanistan and not always at the hands of

insurgents exclusively online ati's team kirby looks at nato as a record and killing civilians and whether just saying sorry is really enough. you know she did leverage sure to read was easy to believe you need most sophisticated reading. receipt leave doesn't give a darn about anything to nj mission to teach creation and why you should care about humans and. this is why you should want your only dog. let's cross over to the business desk. russia wants to significantly improve its business climate over the next few years remaining absolutely and it looks like we might now have a plan for how to go about it all the details in just a minute but first let's check out the equity markets and we'll start with asia where trade is pretty active this hour asian shares a quite upbeat this monday with hong kong's hang seng gaining more than a quarter percent as you can see that's after a chinese

a premier wen jiabao over the weekend said the government would be ready to step up the efforts to support the economy the nikkei is closed for a public holiday on monday and to the united states ended friday with games and with banking stocks driving dow up more than one point six percent the earning season is in full swing a third of the companies in the dow jones industrial average index are reporting this week and now into the currency markets let's see the euro is trading pretty much let's see the currencies there the euro is trading pretty much squat against the u.s. dollar and on friday the russian ruble closed mixed to the currency basket we'll bring you all the latest as soon as the russian markets reopen in less than one hour's time and on to the crude crude is also trading mixed this hour it's off its highs of more than a week on monday at the moment the w t i is trading below eighty seven dollars

a barrel and analysts hope the big financial results will help lift the russian market. higher this week let's see the russian market starts to the closing figures from a loss friday that posted gains over more than two percent for the r.t.s. we'll see what happens when they reopen this monday and staying with russia the country has set an ambitious goal to significantly improve its business climate the world bank currently rates russia's number one hundred twenty in terms of its conditions for doing business singapore hong kong new zealand and the united states are on the top for president putin's russia willing to make it into the top twenty spot within six years investment consultants romney's sons capital came up with a step by step plan for achieving this goal. reports. luckily russia doesn't need to apply superhuman efforts to attract investors based

on the analysis if it continues reforming areas that the world bank focuses on and surveyed the results should exceed expectations and now here are the five simple steps to outperform the others and jump up the ratings. to pump the cost of starting a business russia has already caught the time it takes to start a business to less than a month the number of procedures has also dropped from fourteen to nine just keep it that way say the analysts step two to improve the judicial system it may be criticised all over but the country is in fact just the thirteenth in the world thanks to the speed and low cost of enforcing contracts but the jump from the sixty eight to twenty two that russia would need to raise the recovery rate step three getting the business built now in order to do that you need to do with destruction permits to get hooked up to the electricity and register the property it takes fifty one power mit's and well over

a year to deal with construction as for powering up the business with its ten procedures taking more than six months the country takes an enviable last place out of one hundred and eighty three countries and just a slight time reduction from its forty three days in property registration and one fewer permit would see russia leapfrog much higher than its current forty fifth place step for cutting the taxes and simplifying payments with its overall forty seven percent tax rate russia is hardly in a good place making paying taxes more efficient if not cutting the tax burden would help a lot step five helping companies to trade and protecting investors now cross border trading in russia is not easy for each day for example it takes to export out of canada it takes a week in russia others suggest railways and boards less costly and overall

cutting red tape and paperwork would certainly make investment climate in russia warmer and doing business in russia much easier. well you are all up to date now here at the business desk i'll be back in about fifteen minutes i'll see them right now tasha see you later and in a few minutes away a set for which had these signs of a major u.s. showdown during the iraq war and its toxic consequences.

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