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monday here in moscow good morning to you from all of us here. on. iran's new president has called for dialogue with the west but warned the language of sanctions will not work. his inaugural address to being officially sworn in as the islamic republic's president or the moderate cleric. by promising to put an end to the country's international isolation of course over its ongoing nuclear energy program. steps to ease tensions with the rest of the world and not finding much response from the west as. iran's new president hassan rouhani is widely seen as a moderate politician particularly significant detail where western leaders are concerned after years of strain diplomatic tensions now in what is seen as an attempt to easing that isolation the government had sent out invitations to e.u.

countries including britain with tend to be a swearing in ceremony. excluding the west and israel now the position was that only tehran a base of diplomats would attend but the u.k. cannot send anyone at all the reasoning given by the british foreign office is that we does not have an embassy in tehran but this has been criticized by members of the opposition labor party here particularly the shadow foreign minister douglas alexander had called this judgment as well as a missed opportunity adding about diplomacy involves meeting with people with whom you disagree now in light of the steps upward that to run appears to be taking it moving this invitation to european leaders as well as appointing a foreign minister with relations with washington a summer reading. really wanting to rebuild those relations with the us and europe well we spoke with labor m.p. barrie for more on this the u.k.

foreign minister william hague he had said we will respond in good faith to positive action by iran and improve relations on a step by step basis without remark shouldn't this invitation to attend the president's inauguration been accepted i think it would have been a very good opportunity to say look he starts with a clean sheet as far as we're concerned we want to take him as we find him and it would have been a good opportunity for to go to have informal discussions are around the inauguration. and to do some sounding. too he was going to behave in office so i think it's an opportunity missed. i hope that there are back channel conversations going on that are beginning to try and work out a new relationship with qualities and after all a new president at the end of the day in this very careful dance between tehran to add a western leader its every action and non-action will certainly play

a part in that equation on where relations are we headed reporting from london and test ourselves. now the main challenge that us on the one he faces as the new president is easing the economic sanctions grinding hard on the iranian people over the past two years the country has faced its toughest most comprehensive western penalties to date the most painful have been punitive measures by the u.s. and the e.u. targeting iran's oil exports its trade and banking sectors which ultimately crippled the country's economy in two thousand and twelve alone iran is thought to have lost at least fifty billion dollars in oil revenues the resulting economic recession has caused a significant rise in prices for basic necessities such as a bread milk and meat and the country's medical institutions now claim the sanctions make it difficult for millions of people with serious health problems to try and obtain drugs in fact last year reported six million iranians are suffering

for example from diseases such as multiple sclerosis hemophilia and cancer could not get access to the medicine that they need now despite signals from iran's new leadership washington for its part has shown no inclination it will abandon any of the sanctions on the contrary just days before inauguration u.s. lawmakers passed a bill toughening them and the bill would see iran's oil exports slashed by another one million barrels per day of the from the national iranian american council he says some in washington are simply more interested in a war with iran rather than finding a solution to the so-called nuclear issue there. the fact that they would vote for new sanctions before the new iranian president who has been saying positive things and who is going to himself face so many obstacles for the house of representatives to go forward with this vote demonstrates that this is a chamber dominated by politics instead of pragmatism and is dominated by ideology

instead of. an actual desire to resolve the problems that. lay before the united states now the reason that they went forward with this vote was because of immense political pressure from pro sanctions groups and neo conservative and hawkish organizations that are more interested in seeing a war with iran than seeing a diplomatic resolution to the nuclear standoff. now runs proven to have an uneasy relations with not only the west but also with many countries in the middle east tensions with saudi arabia came into focus on incident with the president of sudan's plane that was heading for tehran but was then barred from entering the gulf kingdoms and space independent researcher and right. she explained how saudi arabia might actually be benefiting from the conflicts in the region. historically saudi arabia has been you runts rival more importantly than that and it's aside

from the fact that saudi arabia serves the united states and israel and carries that do or does in the region and saudi riff should there ever be peace with iran. coming from the west it would really threaten saudi arabia feels very secure for as long as they can be of service to the united states saudi arabia benefits from the war and conflict in the region so there's no reason for them to change and this is smart enough to know that down the line is that to be there that they're not going to be accepted no matter how hard they work for israel and america no matter how steve who is housed in how will they carry out the orders and work with them they will not be one of and eventually. their time to come to. and also. discussed what's in store for iran under the new president with rwandese and producer mahmoud ahmadinejad among other issues of the interview focused on

tyrone's controversial nuclear program and recent allegations made by the israeli prime minister that iran is pursuing an arsenal of two hundred nuclear warheads so if it goes for program coming away that is today for now though a quick look. iran is going to have two hundred. yes. this is something that i've said many times before it's not of any use to. use its nuclear weapons. thanks for joining us here today russian vodka down the drain that's the latest

protest a move against what's seen in the west as russia's crackdown on gay rights activists in the u.s. and europe have been out for a new law against propaganda of homosexuals. often shortened by the media to the ominous russian law they're also being called to boycott the sochi winter olympics which. guests or participants now supporters of the law that are actually up holds the view of the majority of russians well let's have a look at the figures for you here on r.t. and see if that's accurate so ultimately here they come here are the numbers right here for you according to a survey by russia's independent polling organization and. only twelve percent of russians believe it's a sexual orientation as any other in fact the overwhelming majority are closely divided between seeing it as a perversion or a bad habit or as a condition gained as a result of psychological trauma it's interesting to note that the same poll

regularly conducted over the past fifteen years has been pretty much returning almost identical results in fact here are the stats from one thousand nine hundred ninety eight to give you a clue something to contradict the western media claims of a sharper. is' an anti-gay sentiment due to the propaganda door all right here's our tease and he said all right now by setting the problem. there's. no stoli no sochi. dumping russian vodka and calls to boycott the olympic games the l g b t community in the west is furious with the passing of a new russian law banning gay propaganda to minors a detail almost never mentioned lot of here putin signed a law and some very strict anti-gay measures these laws are absolutely obscure they're not clear in what they mean of course it will not have a wide ranging gretzky's of being applied everywhere and to everyone and members of the gay community have been attacked and arrested you cannot say that there is

massive suppression or messi of attacks against gay people in the streets and that wherever you say that you're gay you will be killed or beaten russian gay activists are taking their case to the european court of human rights and say the war is meant to target specific individuals but see the picture of gay life in russia from abroad is warped. these pictures being shown and being full of trade just because they slid became a symbol of protest against their suppression of l.g.b. community in russia supporters of the law argue it represents the russian majority . something ridiculous there is a large number of people who believe the lawyers to soft thirty years ago there was criminal punishment for being here if you take examples from some states in the us the relationship is much crudely and strict and this propaganda law was this one.

it's important to remember this law is about gay propaganda to minors and it will be enforced with fines not criminal punishment russia is still a very traditional conservative country it wants to hold on to that. this is one of moscow's many day and night clubs yes it's in a discreet location but it holds three thousand people is packed on the weekends and it's full of foreigners it's own has asked us not to film on the inside to protect the privacy of its clients but we're sure a business is booming there's a happy arriving excitable you know wonderful gay community which is happy martin andrews is british openly gay and living in russia for eight years he opposes the law but won't be dumping his russia is dominated by the church in general far more than the u.k. i think if you compare america for example you can't look at san fran and los angeles and new york and then look at the middle part of texas and that's what

russia is especially moscow you've got the old meets the new and you've got a soviet mindset he's with this capitalist do with excise a western lifestyle homosexuality is illegal in over seventy countries across the globe so martin asked why russia why do the western media why do people and the west never mention cats off the world cup is coming up the. going crazy about lympics i was insulted last week filming there's a gay community there there's a great day scene then salty but the west has a b. and it's on it regarding russia but it's a great. state a price that's got to go and he's in no way are to moscow. and this could have you with us here on r.t. today still ahead for you in this hour mass surveillance in the crosshairs in the united states as protesters hit the streets on mouse calling for a full stop to the big brother watch being of course conducted by the government.

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choose your language. make it with zero if. someone. chooses to use the consensus you. choose the opinions that you have a great tool. to use to stories that impact your life choose the access to your. with me. now after a trial last in more than five years almost three hundred people in turkey will finally discover their fate today they're accused of belonging to an underground network which was plotting a military coup in the case of spot concern whether exposing the illegal movement was simply a witch hunt. the story allegedly it's

a large scale nationalistic movement but some of the country's most top ranking army officials festers journalist prime minister thirty one of them said that he is ready to step out into democratic movement which he said has been brewing in the country for decades a lot of people have fallen under that umbrella but people here are saying that essentially the belief on is just the least the prime minister is putting them in jail so as to get rid of all dissenting voices these trial has been released and it ends with the expected from the beginning expect there. will be no surprise no one. and it will be the end of trust you know i don't see government for a lot of people and it is also the end of the judicial system of turkey this is happening after a large scale protests have broken out in the country spreading from istanbul all over the state where people pouring disagreeing with policies all the prime

minister had taken to the streets all of these protests have been widely dispersed in fact it doesn't look at this point like protests are happening at burning almost in a week bases and get they get broken up by police who are using tear gas and water cannons to this has also been the case and stumbled this weekend matter of fact as well so people here really are expecting some skirmishes to break out between the supporters of those who they believe were wrongly accused of participation in this alleged plot still overthrow the government and of course of the police. and a plenty more stories waiting for you right now online including the show must go home the softer american rockers the bloodhound dying packing from russia and might even face criminal charges as you see right there disrespecting the russian flag the whole story online for you this hour. also on the ground have a look here russia and china rolling out the big guns all the troops getting

together for joint terror exercises some brilliant footage right now. before we get to the r.t. world update for now here on the program at the u.s. still reeling from edward snowden's revelations of the n.s.a. snooping surveillance scores of people took to the streets across the country to protest against domestic spying and the violation of privacy aunties and associates i went out to march with the demonstrators to find out exactly what their demands it. not so bad we still have a lot of them that i did action in over a dozen cities across the west inspired by george orwell's novel nineteen

eighty-four an anti utopia written over half a century ago about mass surveillance so frightening it sends shivers down a reader spine these protesters say apparently the u.s. government has been using it as a manual theme of this one is about the surveillance and the fourth amendment rights you know we're losing our country and i'm really sad about that this is one of many demonstrations concept might have changed americans are out onto the streets to make their lives right about what do you think we're to specifically you guys can do about us i mean do you think the subways can be vengefully rest this is one part of the process right here marching on the streets raising awareness for calling congressman letting them know that this is not something that we stand for and it should not be done in our name calling of course comes out every weekend with the help of a thirty year old former n.s.a. contractor edward snowden that the national security agency west has been

conducting sweeping something inside millions of americans and foreigners around the world and these people are now marching the streets of new york to say they want to hand us of the surveillance of the n.s.a. is collecting information of every american regardless of whether they're suspected the jury is wrong or of any british stationary the illegal there's going to everyone's information and the fourth amendment says that they can't say got to be patient that was ever reason to believe that you are have committed a crime i am very concerned about the volume of surveillance that is not performed by the national security administration we know more and more about what's going on but we still don't understand a lot of the technical details underlying it protesters are now chanting outside eighty and. twenty is that the n.s.a. was able to retract information from about u.s. citizens phone calls being made messages being sent the length of the phone calls being made as well as where the people were speaking all of these major concerns

for u.s. citizens now coming onto the streets to basically tell the government that they've had enough and they will not stop coming out to protest until their mates message is heard we are outraged we're outraged that we're still learning to what extent all of our contacts i telephone calls are. shat on line are being monitored and we're not happy with this these protests urbanites by a group called the store and they were grassroots up privacy rights movement demanding the restoration of the first amendment to the us constitution the right hip it's reasonable seizure and searches all these people are now on the streets because they say he was a government that's really not been playing its role the way it should and has forgotten about the rights of its citizens is this if you're going to. be. in a quickly into the we go now some global headlines for you in brief starting with the terror threat has nineteen u.s. embassies across the middle east and north africa remain closed until the tenth of

august due to an unspecified threat by al qaeda and washington's travel alert for u.s. citizens in the region will also remain in force for an unspecified time a u.s. official said based on intelligence evidence particularly concerned about the diplomatic mission in yemen meanwhile in pakistan the country has been placed on its highest level following reports of planned terror attack. and to egypt of the country's military has ordered the former deputy chief of the ousted president mohamed morsy to remain under arrest for two more weeks now facing murder charges in the appeals court has also set a date for the trial of the muslim brotherhood officials who are accused of inciting violence. egypt has been embroiled in chaos since the military coup with thousands of morsy supporters defined the government's calls to abandon their sit ins. now with the rapid growth in technology computers and t.v.'s

ultimately becoming out they didn't just a few years tons of them ending up on the u.k. scrap heap but as the recycling of electronic waste means high costs some companies are simply shipping the problem abroad and even making a tidy profit from it. as the story. with the pace of technology ever changing yesterday's essential. pile electronic waste known as a waste is the fastest expanding way stream in the u.k. but he's been investigating as the industry's growing. concerns around illegal trading so this is why they are electronic waste. you might be quite surprised by. the recycling companies that are able to extract precious metals like the copper. on the back there in alum and you still as well as the native that around one point

five million tonnes of electronic waste cycling every year. and yet research. third is that is actually being recycled by reputable sites such as this one so where does the rest of it go. east. this country and i think. in the u.k. trade in treatment of the waste is regulated under the e.u. directive which came into force in two thousand and seven and it's supposed to make sure that anything that's broken not be exported to developing countries but industry insiders estimate that up to whole foods will computers discarded in the u.k. and illegal trade streams. broken . down.

so few. places. you know. so even when you are in the last few years the government body the environment agency has been slowly getting to grips with the problem and has made a number of successful prosecutions despite the costs of recycling but the civil war cyclists are turning a profit as the cost of metal they extract from the kids is high but the growth of the illegal industry means there are concerns black market traders could price reputable recyclers out if the market is wrong and it will affect someone you know down the line it may affect sales and if people continue to do wrong and illegally

you know there could be no trade for us in other legitimate merchants so yeah it does have a big impact and we concerned about things going in the right lines in the countries receiving the way young children are often involved in breaking down the equipment much of which contains harmful chemicals experts warn that the potential consequences to health could be dire countries which are you know placed so differently not the have the capacity to deal with it are the countries which are technologically advanced they have the financial resources they have the infrastructure to describe office and i think there is certain amount of responsibility behalf more responsibility to deal with this and to ensure that the poorer countries don't receive that but they don't pass an important. r.t. . and a good morning to you want to monday from all of us here out of the moscow five

overseas trip back in half an hour for the meantime though our special report wife . wow revolutions in the middle east sure get a great deal of coverage but you don't mix a lot of sense revolutions are exciting t.v. peaceful protests are nice but footage of moloch tough cocktails flying and crazed crowds of local middle easterners really grab attention so there's a logical natural reason why some protest movements get a lot of coverage in the mainstream media well others kind of adult please forgive me for being conspiratorial but there is one revolution going down which does have all the exciting visuals of the arab spring but just doesn't get any of the mainstream coverage in fact unarmed people in this country recently stormed the

parliament trapping ministers and lawmakers with that they held them down for eight hours demanding the government resign until police with shields smash their way through creating a narrow corridor through which the officials could escape now that sounds like exciting and visual news but why did you hear about it all over the mainstream press that's because it didn't happen in libya or egypt or any other exotic country but in good old boag area right in the e.u. where u.s. and e.u. interests are best served by the status quo being maintained there was no need to hype up an intervention or kinetic action in bulgaria the only time you ever hear about the need for a crackdown in bulgaria is when a government there actually started working in bulgaria own interests and not the us desires but that's just my opinion. says the media lido so we leave the. potions to cure. for the

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