i am. wrong as new president calls for dialogue with the west seeking to ease crippling sanctions in the u.k. it's not seasonal duration while u.s. and all makers possibile the tightening the penalty. american gay bars done to russian vodka in protest started become trees law against homosexual propaganda was sort fact from fiction it was being widely slammed as a cry down on gay rights. and nearly three hundred people in target face imprisonment as a court prepares to pass judgment on an underground network accused of lost in mining and revolution.

international news and comment live from moscow this is us he was me as your national policy thanks for joining us iran's new president has called for dialogue with the west but warned the language of sanctions will not work hasan rowhani made his inaugural address after being officially sworn in as the islamic republic's president the moderate cleric won dreams voted by promising to put and then to the country's international isolation over its nuclear energy program but terrazzo long awaited steps to ease tensions with the rest of the world i'm not finding much response from some in the west as i see their reports. it was 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 by terror want to ease in that isolation the government had sent out invitations to e.u.

countries including britain to would tend to be a swearing in ceremony of rouhani albeit excluding the u.s. and israel now the east position was that only tehran a base of diplomats would attend it but the u.k. had not sent 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 of the shadow foreign minister douglas alexander let's call this a misjudgment as well as a missed opportunity adding about diplomacy involves meeting with people would you disagree now in light of the steps upward that tehran appears to be taking it moving this invitation to european leaders as well as appointing a foreign minister with positive relations with washington as some are reading it's really wanting to rebuild those relations with the us and europe well we spoke with labor m.p. barrie gardiner 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 the supply so basis without remark shouldn't this invitation to attend the president's inauguration in iraq have been accepted and i think it would have been a very good opportunity to say look he starts with almost 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 therefore to go to have informal discussions are around the inauguration. and to do some sounding. to how he was going to behave in office so i think it's an opportunity minutes. i hope that there are back channel conversations going on that are giving to try and work out a new relationship with what is after all president at the end of the day in this very careful dance between tehran to add a western leaders every action and on action will certainly play

a part in that equation on where relations are really headed reporting from london i'm tess are cilia. the main challenge has faces as the new president is easing the economic sanctions grinding hard on the brain in 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 us and e.u. tarnishing iran's oil exports and its trade and banking sectors which crippled the country's economy in two thousand and twelve alone iran is thought to have lost at least fifty thousand billion in oil revenues their results in economic recession has caused a significant rise in prices for basic food items such as the bread milk and meat the country's medical institutions claim the sanctions make it difficult for millions of people with serious health problems to obtain their drugs and it's been reported that last year six million rainier is suffering from serious diseases such

as multiple sclerosis him of fear and council could not access the medicine they need and despite signals from iran's new leadership washington for its part has shown no inclination it will abandon any sanctions and on the contrary just days before we're on his inauguration u.s. lawmakers passed a bill toughening them so the bill would see iran's oil exports slashed by another one billion barrels per day from the national iranian american council says some in washington are more interested in war with iran rather than finding a solution to the nuclear issue. 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. iran's program to have an easy relations not only with the west but also with many countries in that made me east tensions with saudi arabia came into focus after an incident when the president of sudan was plane which was heading for tel ron but banned from entering the gulf kingdoms as space independent research and right. explained how saudi arabia might be benefiting from the conflicts in the region historically saudi arabia has been the runts rival more importantly. aside from the fact that saudi arabia the united

states and israel and carrots that do or does in the region. now do you agree if should there ever be peace with you martin. trust in saudi arabia feels very secure for as long as they can be of service to the united states saudi arabia benefits from 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 the be there that they're not going to be accepted no matter how hard they work for israel and america no matter how much they've been how will they carry out the or do this and work with them they will not be want to and eventually. their time will come to. and i'll say so official right now is a discussed what's in store for iran under the new president with iran is part of that mood elevator job among other issues the interview focused on terror controversial nuclear program and recent allegations made by the east raney prime

minister that iran is pursuing and also the syrian also all two hundred nuclear warheads so it's a face full program is coming your way later today but here's a quick like language that really iran is going to have two hundred warheads that's what he says yes. would be the amount of number. this is something that i've said many times before to you it is not of any use to us to have nukes to have. use it i mean nuclear weapons is that what you're useless because it is so twentieth century. i am. russian vodka down the drain as the approaches move against what's seen in the west as russia squatted down on gay rights activists in the u.s.

and europe have been outraged at a new law against propaganda of homosexuals to minors and they often shortened by the media to the russian anti gay law and there also been calls to boycott the sochi winter olympics to which moscow has one target guests or participants supporters of the law argue it's the views of the majority of russians so the latest survey was carried out by russia's independent polling organization the levant a center the overwhelming majority of russians are closely divided between seeing it as a perversion or a bad habit or as a condition gained as a pursuit of psychological trauma while only twelve percent believe it's a sexual orientation as good as any other so it's interesting to know that the same poll regular conducted over the past fifteen years has been returning pretty much identical results and here are the results over ninety in ninety eight figures something perhaps too contradicts the western media as claims of

a sharp rise in anti gay sentiment due to the propaganda law and his arteries and he said now we're discussing the problem. ok. there is. 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 absolutely obscure they're not clear in what they mean of course it will not have a white 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 massive 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 law 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 portrayed just because this little became a symbol of a protest against the suppression of l.g.b. community in russia supporters of the law argue it represents the russian majority . if there is a large number of people who believe the lawyers to soften thirty years ago it was criminal punishment for being if you take examples from some states in the u.s. the relationship is much crudely and strict and these propaganda law. this is where . 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 owners asked us not to film on the inside to protect the privacy of its clients but we are a business it's a group there's a happy driving excitable you know wonderful gay community which is great martin mandrels 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 some friends of the sons of these 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 soviet mindset she's with this capitalist with excising 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 in the west never mention cats are the world cup is coming up they're going crazy about saatchi and lympics i was in such a last week filming there's a gay community there there's a great day seaman saatchi but the west has a big and it's on it regarding russia politically. the president got to go and he's now a r.t. moscow. under let's now bring down the facts myths and figures of the new law against gay propaganda first and foremost is being gay a crime in russia good question actually it is no how about preaching nontraditional sexual relations relationships to minus is a crime so nontraditional is defined by this as relations that cannot produce children so can the new law get you arrested yes but only if you are suspected of

promoting gay propaganda to children an example of this is the dutch film crew who recorded themselves quizzing teenagers in russia on their views on homeless. charges were brought against them but legs drop can you go to jail for gay propaganda no you can't the maximum penalty is about fifteen hundred dollars for individuals and thirty thousand dollars for a nice actions additionally any foreigner violating the the law will be deported and may be detained for up to fifteen days and you can find more details on the law on our website dot com. this is all see on some head for you they saw remember this big guy. yes this one apparently be made that made and then the lights and entrance over russia earlier this year had friends they may be late for the policy but they also planning to calm their tails on that in just a few moments. last last surveillance in the cross has in the u.s.

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is eve. eve. this is. coming to live from moscow welcome back after a trial lasting more than five years almost three hundred people in turkey will finally discover their fate today they are accused of belonging to an underground network which was plotting a military coup but the case has sparked concern at whether exposing the illegal movement was simply a witch hunt and right now you are seeing live pictures from the silly very complex

west of istanbul where the final verdicts are expected to be delivered and. has been following the events for us. well what's happening at the courthouse is that there are three or four thousand protesters there at the moment and i couldn't get through because at the very last moment the turkish officials have ruled that only those who have a turkish media could get inside and that means that for a journalist if they have a camera and don't have a turkish press pass are essentially socially left out of luck the tear gas is already flowing that was to be expected a lot of people were saying that that considering the amount of security forces in the security measures which were taken in advance we're talking about thousands of police officers in place of course the water cannons thirteen of them in total and almost three hundred two hundred seventy five to be precise defendants are on the bench today more than sixty of them are facing life in prison when the trial began

in two thousand and eight we were looking at just eighty people just over eighty people who were on trial and that was during the first indictments but as time went on the number of indictments seemed to have grown exponentially as did the number of people who were accused of participating in their get caught and now you have to understand that turkey is a country which already has seen several coups all of them were carried out by the military and there is some of the new there is some opinion out there that says that it is because fear is that this we could repeat itself and the military could again rise against him and toppled it wants government but a lot of people are saying that essentially this is essentially everyone trying to get rid of those who disagree with his possibly very islamist policies and are trying to steer the country towards a more secular towards a more secular reality just a little over two months ago it all started as a protest that surrounded the gezi park as days went by it became clear that a stance of leaders were not protest against the demolition of the gives you

against the policies of the prime minister and it was really a sight to behold because those protests have united thousands of people across turkey. couple of weeks and they still continue we're actually expecting people in istanbul to come out on the streets today as well they want to see everyone out and a lot of people are really watching this case closely they believe this could very well be a time bomb just ticking away in a region that's already very volatile. right and we're just getting reports that twenty one people into acquited more reports later when we get more information on that now the panic and is seen in the russian urals last winter when a meteor this size of a house exploded in the skies may be said for a repeat and not remember this.

the last triggered speculation ranging from the miso i talked to another poll clips and now scientists a big huge know how been flying solo as far as so well but rather as part of a group of us to roads we're still pose a threat to the indifference in our expense. it may be hard to believe that an eleven thousand ton one thousand meter across meteor made its way to earth undetected but that's exactly what happened which is why scientists are leaving no stone unturned even in space now to figure out how the chelyabinsk a meteorite made it to earth scientists ran billions of orbital simulations and came up with the apollo asteroid family that may sound a bit intimidating because it is it's a two hundred metre wide cluster of rocks that according to scientists broke up around forty thousand years ago now it's still at large it's our it's orbiting around the sun now to find out if it is actually the parent cluster of the

chelyabinsk meteorite scientists would need to then to send a tool to the asteroid and take a core sample that's not going to happen any time soon and the cost is extreme although if this cluster of meteorites any one of those fragments show itself to be on a collision course with earth you can bet that action of some sort will be taken until then this cluster of asteroids is still under observation to make sure that something like chelyabinsk does not happen any time soon. and we have plenty more stories waiting for you online including flagging up resentment american rochas the bloodhound gang. that's off to their bases provoked outrage by stuffing the russian flag down the front of his underpants and putting it out the back. plus at least fiction crimes per day committed in the u.s. with the blessing of the very agency that was designed to protect people it's also

called we got some surprising revelations about the secret talk to the f.b.i. . the u.s. still reading from edward snowden's revelations of the n.s.a. snooping surveillance schools of people took to the streets across the country to protest against domestic spying and a violation of privacy to say churkin i marched with the demonstrators to find out exactly what that demands are. not so we still have a lot of them that did the action in over a dozen cities across the west inspired by george orwell's novel nineteen

eighty-four an anti utopia written over a 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 conducted by our greatest americans are not on to the streets to make their lives right but what do you think we're to specifically you guys can do about us i mean do you think this voice can be eventually 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 but of course comes out very deeply with the help of thirty year old former n.s.a. contractor edward snowden that the national security agency was has been conducting sweeping surveillance of millions of americans and foreigners around the world and

these people are now marching the streets of new york to say they want to see the surveillance see the n.s.a. is collecting information of every american regardless of whether they're suspected the jury is wrong or any british stationary the illegal there's going to everyone's information and the fourth amendment says that they care to get a permission that was ever reason to believe that you are have committed a crime i am very concerned about the value of surveillance that is not performed by the cash. 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 a.t.m. t's office is one of many companies 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

found enough and they will not stop coming out to protest until their mace message is heard we are outraged we're outraged that we're still learning to what extent all of our contacts telephone calls our. chats on line are being monitored and we're not happy with this these protests organized by a group called the story of the war a grassroots up privacy rights movement that's demanding the restoration of the fourth amendment to the u.s. constitution that prohibits reasonable seizure and searches all of these people are now on the streets because they say it was a government that's really not been playing its role the way it should and has forgotten about the rights of its citizens it's the sutra. you know. let's now turn to some other global news in brief nineteen u.s. embassies across the middle east and africa will remain closed until it turns an organist due to an unspecified threat by al qaida washington's travel alert for

u.s. citizens in the region will also remain in force for an unspecified time u.s. officials said that based on intelligence evidence that they are particularly concerned about the diplomatic mission in yemen meanwhile in pakistan the country's capital has been placed on the highest alert level following reports of planned terror attacks. and an age where the country's military has ordered these former deputy and the chief of staff of the ousted president mohamed morsy to remain under arrest for two more weeks. now to charges that people's court has also set a date for the trial of the top muslim brotherhood officials who are accused of inciting violence in egypt has been embroiled in a kale says the ministry who with thousands of rules to support says defying the government's calls to abandon of assets and products has. aren't coming up right after the break it's our report the talk life just a little. while

revolutions in the middle east sure get a great deal of coverage but you don't mix a lot of sense revolutions or exciting t.v. peaceful protests or nice but footage of molotov cocktails flying 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 is 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 use desires but that's just my opinion. americans have long seen latin and south america as part of their geopolitical backyard stereotypes die hard but new realities on the ground give reason to believe this continent is on the rise and determined to control its own fate regardless of washington's unilateral perceived interest and given the trends

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