syria says all attempts to oust the regime have failed even as a u.s. led opposition group of nations are meeting but the aim of aiding the rebels calls . beijing a level of criticism about washington over its sanctions against countries to continue to buy iranian oil. and ukrainian landlords shoot for profits ahead of football's a european championships but the soaring prices could well be letting the home side down.

a very warm welcome to you from all of us here at r.t. moscow were some shade syria's government says attempts to topple the regime have failed but insists the troops will stay in cities until security is assured 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 the conflict into their own hands and sarah for three ports hosting the second meeting of the group could prove a test for turkey once major ally for syria. the heart of activity at the naming does it prepares the place to defend the syrian eating the country's once again found itself at the center stage of the push to pressure the assad regime it has

a history common. that syria source certainly feels justified that it is going to interfere to a certain extent possible it as long as was cool to supply having fully built up close economic ties is syria and sharing more than nine hundred kilometers of border with its neighbor the distance between the two countries is now the gulf to take a stance seemingly closely aligned that of arab countries such as qatar and saudi arabia and their strong calls for regime change or turkey or very early in the piece of syria we might remember. very quickly and very confrontational attitude towards. the end of. the struggle. in one meanwhile the syrian national council themselves at battling their own fierce divides the fact that we lost a number of members recently is accusations now that they're not representative of

the interests of the syrian people this insane i was here who was also you know up inside here. who was peaceful monastery and muslim brotherhood. member before was. also if the syrian opposition desperately trying to bridge their own divisions turkish governments now left in a difficult situation truth is more after these things that people deserved the only team that thirty can push is a regime change otherwise he broke his capacity of monitoring to the arab world from syria will be very very constrained and as take he gives that for the meeting when it comes to understanding the complex syrian crisis and take his role in it based still left to guess what's really going on behind closed doors to turkey to

once again emerge as a major regional calloused. thank you very much the way. to the violence in the turkish government. now confrontation with the syrian army and the escalation of an already incredibly regional situation . it's. now out of the conference so u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton is in saudi arabia washington's key regional allies. have been leading calls to start. military force political analyst chris bambery thinks the u.s. is reluctant to get involved directly but will endorse action through proxy. so it is of keen to overthrow the assad 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 skins overthrew the assad regime because of from their own experience the north of providing weapons probably also means involved in providing weapons instructions and so on and could lead to involvement in a conflict which the see easy solution to is the americans for the wrong reasons in part because the rules were straight in afghanistan and elsewhere are hesitant escalating arms supplies to the rebels the west has almost overworked the saudi 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 go like a regime they will use the human race card when you like a regime basically silence over the question of human rights as they have done with the saudi arabian so given regime and indeed. we don't hear any condemnation from

hillary clinton or david cameron. you with r.t. still to come up on the program here accommodation prices go through the roof in ukraine as football's european championships draws closer landlords are looking to cash in on france but it's fear that moving the goalposts will send crowds packing instead also tale of two cities. people believe that they're coming to see how they were all other stars are here to come people. and you can compare this country to look at the plight of the growing number of homeless people who live next door to america's a rich and famous. spain has been hit by the toughest spending cuts in its modern history with the country's young government vowing to slash twenty seven billion euros ministry's funding will go down almost seventeen percent public sector pay will be frozen and corporations will have to contribute

more in taxes the austerity and changes in labor laws have sent hundreds of thousands protesting onto the streets but economic analyst michael gross believes that spain will not be able to push the cuts through anyway. what i can see is that the waters when want to make the spanish government is not only visited if pill it's also impossible when you look at the private sector private sector is totally over bit more or less bankrupt when you look at the banks over there been quite central bank bankrupt government also mourners bank how can you implement an authority package in these 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 euro zone coffin so i mean we have two possibilities why the euro will be obviously not

working well the first is that we will have kind of domestic insurrection in spain itself so we'll have to pull out of the rule in order to calm the people of the other one is the financial aspect that it is not possible to help spain with five hundred seven hundred billion euros in order to refinance themselves so if this if you come to this point and then i think the germany will pull out of the euro. i don't see europe struggles to create its own financial fire 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 too many people in the us are just to us centered focus in terms of their outlook on the world the dollar is declining so our new york president asks people on the streets what could be an alternative that's coming up just a bit later in the program here on artsy. china has lashed out at the u.s. over his decision to plow ahead with sanctions against countries that keep buying

iranian oil beijing says washington has no right to unilaterally punish other nations the u.s. wants to strangle iranian oil trade in an attempt to make the country abandon its nuclear program under the new restrictions set to come into force in june any foreign banks doing oil 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 input but not out of mokhtari a political commentator in tehran says washington is being overoptimistic. i believe. the us not being. such as china russia we're 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 that. long as the energy stocks are doing well. for president obama has very little time this is showmanship of the greatest order but it is very ill advised the us allies will have to bear the brunt of another hasty action from washington and the consequences and the ramifications of what president obama has done today lies squarely. and his administration and he should know that there is no hope of pinning this and its ramifications on anyone else. it is ten minutes past the hour here in moscow and with the euro twenty twelve football championship just now or a few months away fans are booking places to stay when they go to watch their favorite teams over a million expected to travel and ukrainian hotel owners and landlords are looking to cash in from all of the friends as artie's alexia's jeff ski reports it's fear

that some fans might actually have to end up staying at. well is that the view of twenty twelve football 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. i've pensions are next to nothing our days are numbered and i want 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 could 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 morally designed and fully equipped flat be prepared to

pay a fortune across a new this is an elite apartment in central kiev and it's christ in between five and ten thousand dollars a month which will raise prices at least three fold for the euro two thousand and twelve period. which makes it and policed four hundred euros a night and this is not a record breaker some hostels which had previously cost thirty euros are now available at fifteen times the price and what it offers can hardly be described as five star this england fan has already bought plane and match tickets but now he's worried his trip 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 projects 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 bed and breakfast top place i think we're going to get up salute strong

skyrocketing prices urged we put a sand a stern. morning to ukraine's government which promised to take action. hotels have a risk of ending up half empty we'll board their owners to lower the prices would so many low cost airlines be able to bring fans for games into out of ukraine they might as well decide against paying here just coming for one day. accommodation prices usually hit the ceiling ahead of would be if you grant 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 past and there is a great risk private landlords could end up profit less ukraine has already spent fourteen billion euros into the euro twenty project and is expected to earn only hull for 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 see reporting from kiev in

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life on the. video on demand keys my old girls and. now in the palm of your. com and we're coming to you live from the heart of moscow los angeles california america's capital of the rich and famous but behind the glamorous hollywood facade hides yet another reality tens of thousands of homeless people who say they are trapped inside the criminal justice system in a question about reports. the city of angels the promised land of angeles opportunities has become a living nightmare first sun los angeles is a mirage. people believe that they're coming to see hollywood stars are

here. the beautiful and you. girls with the will come take a look at skid row you can compare the third world country this street is an informal border between shiny downtown l.a. and drought behind me in the shadow of the down valley skyline strafe some fifty blocks with the largest concentration of homeless people in the entire country for many it's not just the place it's a way of flying and at last resorts in the often and few main underbelly of los angeles. the financial crisis has hit hard here record amounts of foreclosures have bangs turfing people out of their properties and onto the streets the city of angels is fast becoming a city of homeless joshua's among them two years ago he lost his job and while his income came to an average holds the bills certainly didn't while i was working as

an assistant manager. parts store and. i just. left the ledge and there i don't have any worlds to a recent report by the national coalition for the homeless of range los angeles as the meanest city in the country when it comes to dealing with the problem a world. where the homeless are poor treated under by law enforcement probably in as quote free as big criminal was a very poor. general dogan lives in the streets of skid row he says the police have worked out a solution for dealing with the homeless and asked them for. any minor infraction a strategy that some winning the importance of the business community and real estate developers their job is to move all or a common homeless world out of the growth of the community what they want to do with is what all of poor folks are so to do belive will put money into the area but

the sad reality is there is only enough shelters for the trying a fraction of alleys dramatic number of whom. may here says the government's looking the other way we can leaving them to rot in the gutter i think america's run around. would have been cleaned up your backyard right here on skid row you got the largest most popular in america the largest. mental situation going on right here i mean it just is this is this here and how this is going to get a hell of a lot worse and it's created 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 hands it seems many others will be losing their. minds in a question r.t. reporting from los angeles california. doris took

a moment out to get some summer of international headlines of grief for you with the r.t. world update the political crisis in mali is deepening as insurgents advance towards new targets in the north the rebellion is being bolstered by arms coming from libya after last year's war they're not happy with the way the president was handling the insurgency the military seized power last week with and called the situation critical and asked for an outside help and who has been condemned internationally and marley's neighbors have threatened severe economic sanctions. fierce fighting has erupted between the army and suspected al-qaeda militants in southern yemen seventeen soldiers and thirteen insurgents were killed after islamists attacked the army positions in the town of ramallah yemeni fighter jets launched airstrikes forcing militants to retreat in the town neighbors are a young province al-qaeda stronghold. at least eleven have been

killed and more than one hundred wounded in southern thailand after a series of blasts in a commercial hub the first two bombs were hidden in motorcycles the third was in a car several shops caught 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. but the u.s. soldier accused of killing seventeen afghan civilians under investigation washington is still trying to mend its relationship with kabul but the massacre along with the recent burning of the koran at a u.s. air base means afghan leaders are not accepting the apologies party's military contributor says washington needs to revise its strategy for the latest. might probably be remembered as one of the most unfortunate and the least

successful three ever conducted by the pentagon chief evgenia stan kaye made a political blunder even before he boarded his spleen after the qur'an burning he authorized the u.s. commander in afghanistan to resign draw all american advisers from their afghan institutions both we were three and civilian so small wonder if you left kabul with two lemons first from karzai we theists ultimatum to corral all u.s. ground forces into their forward operating bases and to effectively no invoice any nitrates games he's taliban brothers and second from the taliban when they announce they're postponing all the negotiations with their american partners regarding their reconciliation the next time any other real jump aboard the plane could better make sure that he's bound to islamabad not to cobol

if he really means business this is a lot for moscow stalin's commissar one of the darkest pages in the history of the soviet union thousands of people 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 but to have a. hidden away in the ural mountains hundreds of kilometers from the nearest city is permed 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 you call video of 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 indeed but there are things that made up for it you had the freedom which didn't exist beyond that fence of freedom to actually say anything you wanted without fear what else could they do to you you were in prison already today a 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 with warm underwear and bedding it was usually very cold which was serious we had to sleep on bare and planks with no pillow. museum of current thirty six allows visitors to come face to face with the realities of repression with much of the original structures still intact it gives historians

a glimpse into a harsh life not found anywhere else that's extraordinary because it's a unique place. externality. however current thirty six is not the only place that the repressions of the soviet era remembered today monuments like this world 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 campaign for human rights in our world now see that by keeping the past in focus histories mistakes will be repeated. whenever we remember our past we keep bringing up the main theme of rights and freedom past can be described as one big violation of human rights it was a symbol of lawlessness and the lack of freedom if we forget our past we will be unable to build any decent future. peter all of our party.

the decline of the us dollar is not a surprise to some traders many analysts even suggest it's still priced higher than it's true value china is rising as an economic power and will soon overtake america . in new york asks people on the streets now whether they are willing to use any alternatives to the. 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 death as the world power yeah i think that it's reasonable to assume you know. why don't you think that because it would make you walk a predator. or they were all go 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 being we're losing jobs to china and. you know we're we're not people who are working for you so would you be willing to save money in chinese yuan if it keeps going with them i absolutely i think we were depending on the dollar as the international trade depending on the dollar do you think that's going to change to something like the chinese yuan or the euro any time soon doesn't it look to the euro the euro's really showing off his weaknesses charm 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 there compared to europe or japan or any of the other countries where the tide. it's not transparent enough for me do you think that it's

time to start considering using or saving other currencies like you are under the euro. personally you know. 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 not just currencies it's news it's everything everything is too many people in the us are just to us centered focus in terms of their outlook on the world. part of it is is a function of geography so america basically our ticket buying the large portion of north america with canada and mexico being the only neighboring nations there were has been much need for us to be able to be fluent whether in languages or currencies for that matter do you think bad 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.

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