as a ron's new president calls for dialogue with the west seeking to ease crippling sanctions for the u.k. snubs he's inauguration while you are normally acres possibile the tightening the penalty. american gay bars done of russian vodka in protest and the country's law against thomas sexual propaganda that we sort fact from fiction in a was being widely slammed as a quantum donagh a right. to believe disperse crowds of protesters with tear gas and water cannons outside the turkish capital as a chord continues to pass judgment on an underground network accused of masterminding evolution five years ago you're seeing live pictures right now from today.

this is going to live hello and welcome to the program iran's new president has called for dialogue with the west but warns the language of sanctions will not work how santa rouhani made his inaugural address after being officially sworn in as the republic's president the moderate cleric won dreams abroad by promising to put an end to the country's international isolation over its nuclear energy program but tehran's long awaited steps to ease tensions with the rest of the world and not finding much response from someone the west as archie's test sassy ever ports. 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 by terror want to ease of that isolation the government had sent out invitations to ease countries including britain a two with tend to be a swearing in ceremony of rouhani albeit excluding the u.s. and israel now the position was that only tehran a base of diplomats would attend 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 who had called this a misjudgment 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 tehran appears to be taking it moving this invitation to european leaders as well as appointing a foreign minister with positive relations with washington a summer reading its hours of terror are 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 iran 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 out to how 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 giving to try and work out a new relationship with waters off

a new president at the end of the day in this very careful dance between tehran to add a western leaders every action and not action will certainly play a part in that equation on where relations are really headed reporting from london and test our sylvia. the main challenge hansen were running phrases as the new president is easing the economic sanctions grinding hard on the iranian people over the past two years the country as phrased 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 twenty twelve alone iran is thought to have lost at least fifty thousand billion or revenues the resulting economic recession has caused a significant rise in prices for basic food items such as bread milk and meat the country's medical institutions claim this sanctions make it difficult for millions of people with serious health problems to obtain their drugs if the reporters that

last year six million iranians suffering from serious diseases such as multiple sclerosis him of fear and counsel could not access the medicine they need despite signals from iran's new leadership washington for a spot has shown no inclination to abandon any sanctions on the contrary just days before ronnie's inauguration u.s. norway has passed a bill toughening them the bill would see iran's oil exports slashed by another one million barrels per day jamal from the national iranian american council says some in washington are more interested in woolwich iran 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 the laid before the united states now the reason that they went forward with this vote was because of immense political pressure from processions 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 proving to have an easy relations not only with the west but also with many countries in the middle aged tensions with saudi arabia came into focus on an incident with the president of the downed plane which was heading to run but from entering the gulf kingdoms as space independent for senator and rice has set the break explained how saudi arabia might be benefiting from the conflicts in the region. historically saudi arabia has been iran's rival more importantly than that and if the site from the fact that saudi

arabia serves the united states and israel and carries out their orders in the region. saudi riff should there ever be peace with iraq. coming from the west that would really threaten saudi arabia react 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 that to be there to see that they're not going to be accepted no matter how hard they work for israel and america no matter how much to push hard in how will they carry out their or duis and work with them they will not be one of them and eventually. their turn will come to. have another discounts taunts in store for iran under the new president with iran is predecessor mahmoud ahmadinejad and on other issues they interview focus on

tehran's controversial nuclear program and recent allegations made by the israeli prime minister that iran's arsenal of two hundred nuclear warheads so his whole program was coming your way later today but here's a quick provine. look at that we iraq is going to have two hundred warheads that's what he says yes. this is something that i've said many times before but you it is not of any use to us to have to have. use it i mean nuclear weapons that were used to use this because it's so true and it's century. russian vodka down the drain that's the latest protest move against all seen in the west as russia's crowd 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 they've also been calls to boycott the sochi winter olympics which was the law won't target guests of participants so supporters of the law argue it up holds the views of the majority of russians the latest survey was carried out by russia's independent polling organization here it's called levada center the overwhelming majority of russians are closely divided between seeing it as a perversion or a bad habit or as a can condition gained as a result of psychological trauma this is how russian see this problem 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 regularly conducted over the past fifteen years has been returning pretty much identical results and here you see the nineteen ninety eight figures here something

perhaps to contradict the western media as claims of a sharp rise in and to gay sentiment due to the new propaganda law on his own he's and he said now is the sex and the problem. but 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 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 massive that 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 law is too soft thirty years ago there was criminal punishment for being poor if you take examples from some states in the u.s. 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 it's. packed on the weekends and it's full of foreigners it's owners outdoes not to film on the inside to protect the privacy of its clients but reassure us business is booming 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 fused with this couple this with excise and 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 on the world cup is coming up going crazy about sochi in the lympics i was in such a last week filming there's a gay community there there's a great d.c. and then saatchi but the west has a big in its bonnet regarding russia politically. russia got to go and he's now a r.t. moscow. and that's how breakdown the facts meant son figures of the new law against gay propaganda first and foremost is being gay a crime hating russia the answer is no how about preaching nontraditional sexual relationships to minors is a crime nontraditional is defined by the sco as relations that can not produce children so can the new law get you are arrested yes but only if you are suspected

of promoting gay propaganda to children and example of this is a dutch film crew who recorded themselves quizzing teenagers in russia on their views of homosexuality charges were brought against them but later dropped can you go to jail for gay propaganda. their answer is no the maximum penalty is about fifteen hundred dollars for individuals and thirty thousand dollars for organizations and additionally any foreigner violating the law will be deported and may be detained for up to fifteen days and you can find more details on the law on your website which is aussie dot com. this is all see i'm so glad for you this hour. to remember this guy apparently they made that made and lightened entrance over ruptures and this year friends they may be late for the party by the best still planning to come all the details on that in just a couple of a minute. and then the course has in the us as protesters

had this trace on most calling for a full stop to the big brother watch conducted by the government all that much more . just. americans have long seen latin in south america as part of their geopolitical back yard 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 interests and given the trends should americans be learning spanish. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.

good lumber tour to mccurry was to build a new most sophisticated robot which fortunately doesn't give a dollar amount anything tunes mission to teach music creation why it should care about humans and. this is why you should care only. welcome bio this is our sea turkish police are dispersing protesters outside stumble with tear gas and water cannons people have gathered to wryly a courthouse where verdicts are being announced for more than two hundred people over there alleged walls in plotting a military coup 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 livery complex

west of some ball where the final verdicts are being delivered her has been following the events for us there. 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 press pass are essentially are essentially 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 there get now you have to understand that turkey is a country which already has had several coups all of them were carried out by the military and there is some opinion there is some opinion out there that says that it is because fear is that history could repeat itself and the military could again rise against him and topple 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 useless 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 so surrounding the gezi park as days went by it became clear that a stance of leaves were not protest against the demolition of the gezi park but protests against the policies of the prime minister and it was really

a sight to behold because those protests have united thousands of people across. first century couple of weeks and they still continue we are actually expecting people in istanbul to come out on the streets today as well they want to see alex and a lot of people are really watching this case closely and they believe this could very well be a time bomb just ticking away in a region that's already very volatile. and to discuss this further when i joined live by freenet freelance journalist. gretz mr gryce thank you very much indeed for being with us here. so we're hearing that some of the some of those defendants have been acquitted is that a good sign from your point of view and will do you think the final outcome will be . where actually. the word is just being read. we don't hear all about it we at the point do not know

who is. actually there will be a written word. explaining. the justification. then. we can talk about it more clearly but at the moment. we are seeing that some people for example some are getting ten years. around the. punishment while some people who whose role alleged not being yet. are getting left which is we are. do expect do you think that we will see more protests after all the verdicts are in. i guess yes there will be protests but i don't think they will be as big as the giza park you know mentioned before because they are going to.

they are going to are defined by. on a film list or you might say neil nation list production so if the society. protests would not be as big as others why did everyone replays for he's made commander shortly before the trial. well. more or less routine change but i can tell you about this there are of course there are always rumors about the changes in the military about whether or not speculate but i can tell you this that. we. also have negative effects. of effect is that the turkish military is no longer is the deciding influence. politics would say not to countries in the region like egypt for example brought to their knees by protests say is that a danger turkey will go the same way what's your assessment. no i don't think

turkey faces. a classic kind of coop like happened in the. nineteen. chances of a military. military. like in the ninety's. yes there was this. is a free market economy for example you could have. in one thousand nine hundred eighty but you can't do it now i don't believe. today there's a direct. yes talking about my previous question about the four military commanders the question is the government is chasing told bronson the military we're saying it don't you think that they have some other enemies except the the military. will when this are

going to start it's or there was there was another case which was under the sledgehammer. work it was they were different back then like i said the military was deciding. they were directly involved. sorry we lost sound here i bet it was as good. as sank you very much light from a stumble thank you again the panic and havoc seen in the russian urals last winter when a meteorite the signs of a house exploded in the sky is maybe set for repeat and do this.

oh yes the coal looks so good speculation ranging from the soft on to the clips and now scientists a big huge rock might not have been flying solo or the old but rather as part of a group of steroids stories which still pose a threat to us oh she's leans across explain. it may be hard to believe that an eleven thousand ton eighteen 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 does 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. 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 a violation of privacy she's an assistant you're going to march to the dance traitors to find out exactly what their demands are. so we still bought them that i did the auction 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 you know we're losing our country because of it i'm really sad about that this is one of many demonstrations conducted might have changed americans out onto the streets to make their lives right what do you think we're to specifically you guys can do about us and i mean do you think the subways can be eventually arrested this is one part of the process right here marching on the streets raising awareness for calling congressmen letting them know that this is not something that we stand for and it should not be done in our name problem of course comes after a weekend with a thirty year old former n.s.a. contractor edward snowden that we on national security agency was has been

conducting sweeping some bands are millions of americans and foreigners around the world and these people are now marching in the streets of new york to say they want to touch the story of this is again this is collecting information of every american regardless of whether they're suspected of doing wrong or of any british stationary illegal there's going to everyone's information and of the fourth amendment says if they care to get information that was ever reason to believe that year or have committed a crime i'm 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 eighteen 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. aid 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 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 telephone calls are. shots online are being monitored and we're not happy with this these protests urbanised by a group called the story of the fourth grassroots up privacy rights movement that is demanding the restoration of the first amendment to the u.s. constitution that prohibits reasonable sr and searches. are now on the street because they say he wants a government that's really not been playing this role the way it should and has forgotten about the rights of its citizens is the situation i. just say that as for the latest piece about crosstalk coming up next.

while revolutions in the middle east sure get a great deal of coverage what you don't mix a lot of sense revolutions or exciting t.v. peaceful protests or nice but footage of molotov cocktails flying and crazed crowds of local middle easterners really grab attention so there's a logical next reason why some protest movements get a lot of coverage in the mainstream media well others kind of don't 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 reside and to pull.