syria says it all attempts to alice the regime have failed even as a u.s. led pro opposition group of nations meet with the aim of aiding the rebels cause. beijing a-levels criticism out of washington over and sanctions against countries that continue to buy iranian oil. and ukrainian landlords and shoot for profits ahead of football's european championships for the soaring prices could well be letting the home side down.

it is good to have you with us here on r t today. live in moscow syria's government says attempts to topple the regime have failed but insists the troops will stay in cities until security is assured but this as the opposition looks for help from abroad the u.s. led group of nations the so-called friends of syria is backing the rebels and pushing for regime change taking the outcome of a conflict into their own hands and the saudis sarah for three ports hosting the second meeting of the group could prove a test for turkey once a major ally for syria. taking the hub of activity at the name into as it prepares to play haste to the friends the syria meeting the country's once again found itself at the center stage of the push to pressure the assad regime it has a history common history with syria so certainly it feels justified it is growing

fainter to a certain extent the circle of it as long as was contained despite having fully built up close economic ties to syria and sharing more than nine hundred kilometers of border with its neighbor a distance between the two countries is now a gulf with take a stance seemingly closely aligned to that of arab countries such as qatar and saudi arabia and their strong calls for regime change. or very early in the case of syria we might remember one. very quickly and very confrontational. on. the struggle against him and. in one of. the syrian national council themselves are battling their own fears divides in fact the group lost a number of members recently as accusations mount that they're not representative of the interests of the syrian people but this isn't seen as it was them who was

also up inside here. by this communist and muslim brotherhood. not of. a member before was. also. by the syrian opposition desperately trying to bridge their own divisions turkish government now left in a difficult situation is more things of the orbs are the only team that thirty can push is a regime change otherwise it's not his capacity or one or even for the arab world through syria every with very very you know constraints and as take he gives that for the meeting. when it comes to understanding the complex syrian crisis and take his role in it still left to guess what's really going on behind closed. to take it to once again is a major regional power syria is grieving and. very much the way that applying

pressure. to put an end to the violence in the turkish government. confrontation with the syrian army and the escalation of an already incredibly volatile regional situation. is. now ahead of the conference u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton is. meeting with washington's regional allies the saudis and qatar leading calls to start arming the syrian rebels with military force political analyst chris bambery thinks the u.s. is reluctant to get involved directly. through proxies. the saudis are very keen to all over through all their regime as soon as possible and want to increase the arms which are going to the syrian rebels the free syrian army etc the americans are slightly weary not because the. overthrew the assad regime is

a from their own experience they know all of the providing weapons probably also means involve providing weapons instructions and so on and can lead to involvement in a conflict which we see easy solution to is the americans for the wrong reasons in part because the rule of restraint in afghanistan and elsewhere are hesitant of o. s. squeezing arms supplies to the rebels the west has almost overworked the sody humanitarian agenda the question of civil rights in saudi arabia what it's doing to its own people and what is done for the people of yemen bahrain and other countries around it because business is good with saudi arabia they are two faced in the way they used that when you don't like a regime who will use the human race card when you wake a regime peace the silence over the question of human rights as they have done with saudi arabia and so giving regime and indeed the green we don't hear any condemnation from hillary clinton or david cameron. still to come here on r.t.

accommodation prices go through the roof in ukraine that's what holds the european championships draws closer landlords are looking to cash in on france but it's feared moving the goalposts will send crowds packing instead also a temple of two cities. people believe that their community hollywood part of the stars are here. and the country we look at the plight of a growing number of homeless people who live next door to america's rich and famous . china has lashed out at the u.s. over its decision to plow ahead with sanctions against countries that continue to buy iranian oil beijing says washington just has no right to unilaterally punish other nations the u.s. wants to strangle iranian oil trade in an attempt to make the country about its nuclear program under the new restrictions set to come into force in june any

foreign banks doing all related deals with iran would be cut off from america's financial system the white house claims there are enough oil sources in the world to keep the market from collapsing without iran's in court but not out of mokhtari a political commentator in tehran says washington is just being overly optimistic. i believe. the u.s. not being of. such as china russia will not well for the united states we must take into account that the united states it's really there are over one hundred trillion dollar debt at the moment and this provider of. resurgent economy recovery is not going to last as a matter of fact the bravado would only last for as long as the energy stocks are doing well. for president obama has very little time this is showmanship the greatest but it is very ill advised the u.s.

allies will have to bear the brunt of and other hasty action from washington now the consequences and the ramifications of what president obama has done today lies squarely with ham and his administration and he should know that there is no hope of pinning this and its ramifications on anyone else. but what you got see spain has been hit by the toughest spending cuts in its modern history the country's young government vowing to slash twenty seven billion euros ministries fundings will go down or by about seventeen percent public sector pay will be frozen and corporations will have to contribute more in tax the austerity and changes in labor laws have sent hundreds of thousands protesting on the streets but economic analyst michael gross believes spain will not be able to push the cuts through any. what i can see is the waters men want to make the spanish government is not

only is it if pill it's all saw impossible when you look at the privates are private sector is totally over bit more or less bankrupt when you look at the banks over the central bank bankrupt government also mourners bankrupt i'm going to be implemented in a store to pick a church in this circumstances so everybody will see this rule this won't work and what i what i see is that spain is the last nail in the eurozone coffin i mean we have to cause abilities why the euro will be obviously not working well the first is there who will have kind of domestic insurrection in spain itself so we'll have to pull out of the other to come the people or the other one is the financial aspect that it is not possible to help spain with five hundred seven hundred euros in order to refinance themselves so if this if you come to this point then i think

germany will pull out of the euro. it's europe struggles to create its own financial wall we ask why americans aren't ready to give up on the dollar. it's not just currencies it's news it's everything everything it's too many people in the us are just too us centered focused in terms of their outlook on the world the dollar is declining so our new york president asks people on the streets what could offer an alternative and that's coming your way shortly here on the program. now a ten minutes past the hour here in moscow but with the euro twenty twelve football championship now just a few months away fans are booking places to stay when they go to watch their teams play over one million are expected to travel and ukrainian hotel owners and landlords are looking to net a tidy profit from each of them as artie's alexia shifts the reports it's feared some fans might just stay at home instead. well the death of the euro twenty two are full of bull championship has not even begun in ukraine but

this ski of pensioner is already in high spirits. will. come out of believes this summer storm and is her last real chance to earn some money since in the us is a our pensions are next to nothing our days are numbered and i went to see them off in style and earn a little money that's why i will let a room or a flat to football fans will start at fifty dollars a night depending on who stays here but the price can go higher. sylvia design and lack of necessary amenities like air conditioning but the matter is being fairly reasonable about the price she would charge for it but the greed of many other private landlords could prove costly for ukraine if you prefer to travel in comfort like renting this northerly designed and fully equipped flyer be prepared to pay a fortune to put across a new this is a neat apartment in central kiev and it's christ in between five and ten thousand dollars

a month but we will raise prices at least three fold for the euro two thousand and twelve period. which makes it at least four hundred euros a night and this is not a record breaker somehow stools which had previously cost thirty euros are now available at fifteen times the price and what it offers to hardly be described as five star this england fan has already bought plane and match tickets but now he's worried his troop may be jeopardized but i don't think we're doing anything different to what any of the house countries did in the past. accommodation process do road travel prizes do royce. it's just the lack of a viable accommodation very expensive most of them university dormitories sure you can stop in a tent for reasonable just a hotel but a brick will start place i think we're going to get up salute strong skyrocketing prices urged we put a sand a stern warning to ukraine's government which promised to take action. hotels have

a risk of ending up half empty we warned their owners to lower the prices would so many low cost airlines be able to bring fans for games in and out of ukraine they might as well decide against saying here just coming from one day. become a nation prices usually hit the ceiling ahead of a big event and london will not be an exception during this summer's olympics but in the case of ukraine the gap between the price and the quality is vast and there is a great risk private landlords could end up profitless ukraine has already spent fourteen billion euros into the euro twenty twelve project and is expected to earn only half a billion the private sector will rake in just as much that's unless the fans would not be scared away by the high prices let's hear assess the r.t. reporting from kiev in ukraine. well if you're hungry for more stories just go to our website on t.v. dot com a quick glimpse now what's waiting for that at the moment crossed the border guessing again. citizens who are banned from leaving the country will now only find

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girls. are as is feeds in the palm of your. comb. but for most of this is artsy los angeles california america's cup at all for the rich and famous but i'm going to hollywood for sod hides another reality tens of thousands of homeless people who say they are trapped inside the criminal justice system within a culture the reports. the city of angels the promise land of countless opportunities has become a living nightmare for some los angeles is a mirage. own people believe that they're coming to see hollywood stars are here. and the girls with that will come take a look at skid row and you can compare the third world country this treat is an

informal border between shiny downtown l.a. and skidrow behind me in the shadow of the down valley thought lines traced some fifty blocks with the largest concentration of homeless people in the entire country for many it's not just the place it's the way it's live and last resorts in the off and on few main underbelly of los angeles. the financial crisis has hit hard here recreating mounds of foreclosures have bangs turfing people out of their properties and on to the streets the city of angeles is fast becoming a city of homeless joshua is among them two years ago he lost his job and while his income came to an average to hold the bill certainly didn't well i was working as a sr manager auto parts store and. i just kind of left legs and i don't have any worlds to go and

a recent report by the national coalition for the homeless of range los angeles as the meanest city of the country when it comes to dealing with the problem that we're all. where the heart of mormon is reported treated under by law enforcement property in this country has been criminal was your poor your. general dogan lives in the streets of skid row he says that police have worked out a solution for dealing with the homeless and arrest them for any minor infraction strategy that's winning the applause of the business community and real estate developers their job is to. call me home as well out of the grateful community what they want to do with is what all the poor folks out so to do bella will put money into the area but the sad reality is there is only enough shelters for a tiny fraction of alleys dramatic number of homeless remain here says the

government's looking the other way and leaving them to rot in the gutter i think america's run around playing. would have been cleaned up their own backyard right here on skid row you've got the largest most popular in america right here the largest you know. three ways you know all right i mean it just is just is this pale and how this is going to get a hell of a lot worse as predicted there will be a whopping one million foreclosures in california in the coming year so while joe schmoe and so many others suffering the same plight might be praying that one day they will have a roof over their heads it seems many others will be losing theirs. in the question are to you reporting from los angeles california. that's got some other international headlines for you and pretty for the world update the political crisis in mali peeping as insurgents advance towards new targets in the north the

rebellion is being bolstered by coming from libya after last year's war they're unhappy with the way the president was handling the insurgency the military seized power last week but then called the situation critical and pleaded for outside help but the coup has been condemned internationally and molly's neighbors have threatened severe economic sanctions. fierce fighting has erupted between the army and a suspected al qaeda militants in southern yemen seventeen soldiers and thirteen insurgents were killed after islamists attacked army positions in the town of nala yemeni fighter jets launched airstrikes forcing militants to retreat at the town of neighbors abyan province an al qaeda stronghold. at least eight are being killed and dozens wounded in southern thailand after a series of blasts in a commercial hub the first two bombs were hidden in motorcycles law the third was in a car several shops court fire and many vehicles were damaged bombings are fairly common

in the insurgency hit far south where over five thousand people have been killed in the past eight years. stalin's labor camps are one of the darkest pages in the history of the soviet union thousands were sent to gulags to rot simply for having different views about the system now one of them has become a museum and a reminder to future generations not to repeat the mistakes of the past artie's peter all of it went to have. hidden away in the ural mountains hundreds of kilometers from the nearest city is perm thirty six where the soviet government sent its dissidents now though it's a museum dedicated to making sure that part of twentieth century history is never forgotten. people wanted to understand the causes of those reprisals and name all the victims and pass the knowledge of what happened here on to future generations.

said a good call video was an inmate at the perm camp in one nine hundred seventy four he was sentenced to seven years for agitation and anti soviet propaganda now in his eighty's he still remembers life on the inside. the actual deprivation of freedom was very significant injury but there are things that made up for it you had the freedom which didn't exist beyond that fence the freedom to actually say anything you wanted without fear what else could they do to you you were in prison already today surrogate is a human rights activist occasionally he goes back to where he was imprisoned to talk to students and other groups about life behind bars in the soviet union in the punishment cell you had to stay without warmer underwear and bedding it was usually very cold which was serious we had to sleep on air and planks with no pillow. and you see in mccomb thirty six allows visitors to come face to face with the realities of repression with much of the original structure still intact it gives

historians a glimpse into a harsh life not found anywhere else that's extraordinary. other. camp. holes i would. however turn thirty six is not the only place that the repressions of the soviet era remembered today monuments like this one in moscow which contains a rock taken from one of the very first camps serve as a reminder of all of those who were held as political prisoners in the u.s.s.r. those who campaigned for human rights in our world now see that by keeping the past in focus histories mistakes won't be repeated. whenever we remember our past we keep bringing up the main theme of rights and freedom our past can be described as one big violation of human rights it was a symbol of lawlessness and a lack of freedom if we forget our past we will be unable to build any decent

future. peter all of our party. becoming to life in the heart of moscow now the decline of the u.s. dollar is not a surprise to some traders many analysts even suggest it's still priced higher than his true value china is rising as an economic power and will soon overtake america so our resident in new york asks people on the streets whether they are willing to use alternatives to the almighty dollar. the value of the u.s. dollar is on the decline what does that mean this week let's talk about that do you think the dollar's decline means the u.s. is losing its status as the world power yeah i think that it's reasonable to assume you know my husband doesn't though. but don't you think that that's it will make you well competitive next to each other we're all going no we're all going to i

mean every country every country the end of the world time in a new world you know the mayans might be right december twenty first so what's going to be the currency it would mind if yeah if there's no more dollars or euros or anything what are we going to be trading probably beans we're losing jobs to china. you know we're we're not people are working really good so would you be really favor money in chinese yuan if it keeps going with them when absolutely i think we were depending on the dollar as the international trade. on the dollar do you think that's going to change to something like the chinese yuan or the euro any time soon president adults of the euro the euro is really showing off his weaknesses this time why do we all just take it for granted that the dollar is the. currency that we base the world economy a more stable economy compared to europe or japan or any of the other countries.

it's not transparent enough for me do you think that it's time to start considering using words. in other currencies like the euro. personally. why do you think americans only think in terms of dollars when the rest of the world thinks in terms of other currencies well i think the whole kind of it's not just currencies it's news it's everything everything it's too many people in the us are just too us centered focused in terms of their outlook on the world well part of it is is a function of geography so america basically operated by and large portion of north america with canada and mexico being the only neighboring nations there hasn't been much need for us to be able to be fluent whether in languages or currencies for that matter do you think that stunted our growth as a people oh yeah i think it can lead to some cultural isolation whether or not you care the u.s. dollar is on the decline the bottom line is you might want to start paying

attention to what other currencies are available. in just a few minutes we'll take you want to trip through time inside the kremlin walls to find out how paranoid soviet leaders protect themselves from for fun. because. your thought or whatever.

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