the sky. line. international diplomacy over see where he'd start with special envoy kofi annan in moscow to seek help in ending the bloody crisis and the global deadlock. russia says its foreign partners on doing enough to use their influence to help bring about into the bloodshed in syria join me in a few moments more on this. also this hour americans show support for egypt's new to elected islam this president threatens to strain its relations with israel as hillary clinton moves from cairo to tel aviv for top level and. it would be problems with the food and electricity water supply she was able to make sure we could wait out this time when many. doomsday desperation qasimi

fee on strain with all of you made the most pessimistic outlook for the future of living in the eurozone. this is all see coming here live from moscow welcome to the program u.n. special envoy kofi annan is seeking 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 on of our takes up the story. kofi annan is in moscow as he steps up his campaign for peace in syria as bloodshed continues to rage across the country now kofi annan has long said that russia is a major player in the peace process but we're expected to hear from a 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 west involved is that how that influence over the opposition russia doesn't think that those western policy 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 this two resolutions on the table that could be voted on one of those was 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 thought goes to a vote russia will use their veto now it's interesting to note though that every time we've seen one of these major diplomatic meetings be it said the security council photo 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 the foreign powers calm to gree on a solution to how to tackle syria how to go forward on syria it's the syrian people that continue to pay the price in blood. meanwhile the international red cross has officially declares the syrian conflict a civil war that means compton's could be out for prosecution for potential war crimes under international law defines analyst. believes the challenge and the

conflict status could be used by some foreign powers to stay. it will be interesting to see how far would that go. to be pursue. the western powers are going to try to highlight the actions label the syrian government. try to seek. to prosecute two for work members perhaps of this. really three washed up once. they want to be what they call regime change and therefore they want to raise any pressure. for oversea that could be set against it to try to raise the pressure before russia china so that it would allow more sanctions up perhaps a military target should they just tell us what would you change that's why any opportunity that presents itself real or true they are going to accuse damascus of why we don't. following developments from inside syria also using mario for notion

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cultures of resistance on our team. welcome by the u.s. secretary of state isn't a zero in the final destination her nation toll of europe asia and the middle east hillary clinton's visit comes on the heels of a trip to egypt where she held talks with both the new elected president and armed forces chief clinton's egypt visit was marred by anti-american protests that culminated in demonstrators throwing to masses shoes and water bottles at her cortege and a 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 worrying america's long time ally israel as a policy explains. high on the agenda is her recent trip to to egypt

and her meeting there 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 they need from them should support their. very clear for. for the muslim brotherhood for president morsi we have no other choice but to speak with. the west and we've got the united states is certainly trying to find its way your 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 u.s. secretary of state condoleezza rice went to cairo she in fact at least said that the united states would have nothing to do with the muslim brotherhood certainly the united states is having to find new frames it's abandoning old friends and it's

creating new problems and as it falters 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 i am down into flames system back tree 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 taking up its old ally israel by creating more forces that are hostile to the jewish state policy r.t. tel aviv. egypt's new leaders and the country is polarized politics is also the focus of course talk coming next he what i see on his horse ahead. what's the point of having elections if you're elected and you can sit in your position of power what's

the point of having elections. but you know we're in a situation in transition i mean we're talking about a country that hasn't had them are grossly in 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 with it's likely. 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 mean. i

. i. america's trust in the mainstream media is at an all time low according to a recent gallup opinion poll they growing discontent is opening the door for a different kind of. partner explain. venning goodness statics round the clock operations this is 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 going on cruise katie holmes are going to war 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's 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 state 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 a state of democracy is an approach. and i think if you know of the situation where the citizens of the country are actually bypassing the mainstream media i think that says a lot about 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 i would say it's a direct blow to his democratic party the individual mandate has been struck down it has been struck down no it has not. stopped. us mass media still maintains us 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 growing up or not artsy new york. turndowns he always has the full story on the news the others might miss out on his summer but we're going to go there right now told here take to japan japan as an american city council as

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i have. leakage and i'll 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 aren't convinced and bracing themselves for an economic doomsday oksana boyko reports. it seems like a place where the grass is always green and where every cloud has a silver lining but even in these ideal exciting in western australia there are fears of an economic boom as the. last few years has been converting his house into

a fully self-sufficient residence and his reasons are purely economic. to those 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 waste this time when money will be worthless. solar panels wind turbine and 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 a 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 political 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 out of the. still ask us to change his name and not to give out his address out of concern that in case of the total collapse his europe proved refuge will be inundated by the angry and hungry as the fears are not entirely foreign to many europeans especially of an older generation these part of the world peers to be rioted their forefront of the cold war and preparing for the worst was part of the government's contingency plans but the idea that calamity mekon 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 that 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 nissho infuse the hours behind the euro project was at least partially based on the rx to reach the steam an increasing number of europeans are now fearing the opposite. actually the artsy reporting from western australia. and later this hour we'll speak to a british business mogul who sponsored a prize for the best stance on how to manage a euro breakup and for him letting the troubled states quit the monetary union is inevitable. i can't see how countries whose interest rate is being sold at levels that are miles above its growth rate come possibly escape the state without

some. defaulting devaluing some of the debt and starting again until greece and spain can be competitive in the market i don't see how they politicians will cling to their ideals a man promises for as long as they possibly can but in the ways of economics always wins politics never trumps economic. and let's now take a look at some more stories making headlines around the world iran's renewing its threat to close a vital shipping routes to try and get to the national sanctions against the country lifted the ring of parliament is preparing a bill to give legal grounding to any decision to close the strait of hormuz iran has repeatedly threatens to block the channel of american and restrictions being used to pressure the country of its nuclear program or finding ways around the strait the united arab emirates is already utilizing an alternative time coverage.

one of the second world wars most wanted criminals has repeatedly reportedly rather been found and hungry so tragic qatari ninety seven sent over fifteen thousand jews to our straits while working as a police commander in the slovak and get it fled to canada under a new identity after being sentenced to death but his disguise it was revealed and he went on the run again and has been in hiding for other fifteen days. afghanistan's education minister has survived a roadside bomb attack in the north the third assault on a top government official in as many days officials say the explosives were similar to those usually used by the time of on on sunday a suicide blast at a wedding claimed twenty lives including a prominent member of the our good parliament and close ally of president karzai.

while and all too frequent in afghanistan and not always at the hands of insurgents exclusively online as he's team kirby looks at nate his record in killing civilians and whether just saying sorries really enough. she good lumber tour to mccurry was easy to believe we need to get rid of. the jeep leave doesn't to do with your new found anything to change mission to teach me reason why you should care about humans in ruby ridge is why you should care what you're only on the. ground let's cross over to the business desk and the russian markets opened a few minutes ago how are they performing so fine a tough also far they're actually sliding let's see the numbers so you can check it out for yourself and as you can see at the moment the r.t.s. and the my successor both of them down shouting slightly less than a quarter percent each traders will mainly focus on external factors this week

namely the us earnings the earnings season is in full swing in the united states citi group will report on monday a third of the companies in the dow jones industrial average index are reporting this week so these results likely to be the main driving force for the global equity markets for the week overall now on to the currencies of the moment the russian ruble is gaining true both the euro and the dollar and the euro is want to negative to the u.s. dollar crude is off its highs of more than a week this monday let's see the numbers there and as you can see they're mixed at the moment the united arab emirates has launched a new pipeline to bypass the strait of hormuz iran has repeatedly threatened to close the route in response to western sanctions and now onto asian equity markets they are quite upbeat this monday with hong kong's hand saying at the moment gaining just under a four percent that's after china's premier wen jiabao with the weekend said the

government would be ready to step up the efforts to support to the economy china's growth rate last quarter was the slowest at about three years. even investors plenty of reasons to worry and reassurances was exactly what they were looking for as to the nikkei using friday's closing figures the indexes actually closed for a public holiday on monday and asian economies are the highest ranking in the so-called doing business rating compiled by the world bank it currently rates as number one hundred twenty in terms of its business conditions singapore hong kong new zealand and the united states in the top four now the country has been the bishes goal to significantly improve its business climate president putin said russia should be in the top twenty within six years and that's when consultants are in a sense capital came up with the step by step plan for achieving this goal scorer has all the details. 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 survey results should exceed expectations and now here are the five simple steps to outperform the others and jump up the rates in. order to prop up 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 it 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 the cost of enforcing contracts but to jump from that sixty eight to twenty two that russia would need to raise the recovery rate step three get in the business build 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 minutes 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 pam it 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 and suggest or

a. always and what's less costly and overall cutting red tape and paperwork would certainly make investment climate in russia warmer and doing business in russia much easier. all that's a latest here at the business desk i'll be back in about fifteen minutes but if you can't wait that long you can always find a lot more stories on our site are to dot com slash business cheryl and thank you very much indeed and was here they. did a few minutes escaping the eurozone we discussed the debt crisis with one of britain's k. business leaders that's coming up after a mind of all top stories. well

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