syria says all attempts to else the regime have failed even as a u.s. led approach opposition group of nations meet with the aim of aiding the rebels calls. beijing levels criticism of washington over its sanctions against countries that keep buying oil from iran. and north shoot for profits ahead of football's european championships of the soaring prices could well be letting the home side stories this hour.

around the clock around the world this is r.t. live here in moscow syria's government says attempts to topple the regime are failed and insists troops will stay in cities until security is assured this is the opposition looks for help from abroad the u.s. led group of nations the circle of friends of syria is backing the rebels and pushing for regime change taking the outcome of the conflict into their own hands and the sort of first reports posting the second meeting of the group could prove a test for turkey once a major for syria. taking the heart of the activity of the name into as it prepares to play hazed 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 going to interfere to a certain extent. as long as while it's going to start having fully built up close

economic ties to syria and sharing more than nine hundred kilometers of border with its neighbor distance between the two countries is now the gulf take his style seemingly closely aligned that of arab countries such as guitar and saudi arabia and the strong calls for regime change. very early in the case of syria remember. very quickly and very confrontational attitude towards. the struggle against him and secondly in one of. the syrian national council themselves a battling their own face divides in fact the great lost a number of members recently is accusations now that they're not representative of the interests of the syrian people listen seen as he really isn't who was also not inside here. someone who born a boy who bought

a piece communist and muslim brotherhood. members look forward to. also visit. with the syrian opposition desperately trying to bridge their own divisions turkish government now left in a difficult situation so it is more question after it is. the only team that thirty can push is a regime change otherwise it is capacity to the arab world through syria will be very very constrained and as take he gears up for the meeting. when it comes to understanding the complex syrian crisis and take his role in it they still left to guess what's really going on behind closed doors it's a key to once again emerge as a major regional power syria is certainly prevailing it's. been feeling very much the way in applying pressure. put an end to the violence that many here in the

turkish government also that are wrong we've now could lead to a confrontation with the syrian army and the escalation of an already incredibly volatile regional situation. if that will. hillary clinton is in saudi arabia meeting washington's key regional allies. to start the syrian rebels and weigh in with military force political analyst chris bambery thinks the u.s. is reluctant to get involved directly but. through proxies. the saudis are very 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 settles the americans a slightly weary lot because the kids overthrew the assad regime because of from their own experience the nor the providing weapons probably also means involved in

providing weapons instructors and so on and can lead to involvement in a conflict which the sea easy solution to is the americans for the wrong reasons in part because the rules were straight in afghanistan and elsewhere are hesitant of oh escalating arms supplies to the rebels the west has always overworked the sody humanitarian agenda the question of civil rights inside saudi arabia what it's doing to its own people and what it's done to 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 use that when they don't like a regime they will use the human rights card when you wake a regime he stayed silent over the question of human rights as they have done with . saudi arabian regime and indeed. we don't hear any condemnation from hillary clinton or david cameron. coming up at r.t. this hour accommodation prices go through the roof in ukraine as football's european championships draws closer and landlords are looking to cash in on fans

but it's feared moving the goalposts will send crowds packing instead also a tale of two cities. people believe that they're coming to see how. other starter here will come take a look at it and compare the country we look at the plight of the growing number of homeless people who live next door to america's rich and famous. because china has lashed out at the u.s. over its decision to plow ahead with sanctions against countries that keep buying iranian oil beijing says washington has no right to take it upon itself to 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 or to come into force in june and the foreign banks doing all related deals with iran would be cut off from america's financial system white house claims there are enough oil sources in the world to keep the market from collapsing without iran's input but not

a military or political commentator and terrans says washington is being over optimistic. i believe. the u.s. not being of. such as child russia we're not well for the united states we must take into account that the united states it's really and there are over one hundred trillion dollar debt at the moment and this bravado of. a resurgent economy every cauvery 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 therefore president obama has very little time this is showmanship of the greatest order but it is very ill advised the u.s. allies will will have to bear the brunt of about a 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. spain has been hit by the toughest spending cuts and it's more than history with the country's young government valen to slash twenty seven billion euros ministries funding will go down almost seventeen percent public sector pay would be frozen and corporations will have to contribute more in tax and starsky and changes in labor laws and sent hundreds of thousands protesting on the streets that but he economic analyst michael ross believes spain will not be able to push the cuts through anyway. what i can see is there too what has been want to make the spanish government is not only visitor to the pill it's also all impossible when you look at the private sector private sector is totally over that more or less bankrupt when you look at the banks over there bankrupt central bank bankrupt government bonds and mourners bankrupt how can you implement an authority package

in this circumstances so everybody will see this rule this won't work but what i what i see is that spain is the last nail in the eurozone coffin so i mean we have two cars abilities while the euro will be obviously not working rock the first is that we will have a kind of domestic insurrection in spain itself so basketball out of the euro in order to calm the people of the other one is the financial aspect that it is not possible to hope spain with five hundred seven hundred billion 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 as europe struggles to create its own financial far wall we'll 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 u.s. are just too u.s.

centered focused in terms of their outlook on the world the dollar is declining so our new york resident asks people on the streets of what could be an alternative that's coming up later in the program. with the euro treaty troll football championship just a few months away fans are booking places to stay when they go to watch their teams play over a million are expected to travel and ukrainian hotel owners and landlords are looking to get a tidy profit from each of them and as aunties and actually you just hear reports it's been some fans might stay at home instead. i felt the us with the euro twenties well football championship has not even begun in ukraine but this king of pensioner is already in high spirits your go course you will. come out of the least this summer storm and this is her last real chance to earn some money since in the us is that our pensions are next to nothing our days are numbered and i want to see them off in style and earn

a little money and that's why i will let a room in our flat to football fans will start at fifty dollars a night depending on who stays here but the price could go higher when the soviet design and lack of necessary images 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 would 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 and put across a nukes this is an elite apartment in central kiev almost and it's priced 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 areas nieces which makes it at least four hundred euros a night and this is not a record breaker some postals 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 and i don't think we're doing anything different to what any over house countries did in the past accommodation process do roche travel prizes do royce. it's just the lack of a viable accommodation very expensive most of them university which is sure you can stop in a tent for reasonable just a hotel bed and breakfast or place i think we're going to get a salute still skyrocketing prices urged we put the sand a stern warning to ukraine's government which promised to take action. have a risk of ending up half empty. their owners to lower the prices with so many low cost airlines being able to bring france for games in and out of ukraine they might as well decide against paying here just coming for one jake. accommodation 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's a great risk private landlords could end up rough with less ukraine has already spent fourteen billion euros into the euro twenty project and is expected to earn only health a billion the private sector will rake and just as much that's unless the fans would not be scared away by the high prices let's see reporting from kiev in ukraine. if you're hungry for more stories on our website l.t. dot com it's online all the time here's a glimpse of what's waiting for you there right now across the border a guessing game and a recent isms who have banned from leaving the country well now and you find out as they actually try to go abroad. and tear gas and water cannons meet palestinians in the west bank is a peaceful rally to remember a land day turns violent leaving one person dead you can watch the video on our you tube channel and find out what about it.

and these are the images and seeing from the streets of canada after. trying to corporations are old today. download the official the application to i phone the i pod touch from the i choose apps to. jaunty. video on demand keys money for old costs an r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. question. well sanjay's kind of foreigner america's capital of the rich and famous but behind the columbus hollywood facade hides another reality tens of thousands of homeless people who say they're trapped inside the criminal justice system but in

a question of are reports. the city of angels and promise land of and this opportunities has become a living nightmare for some los angeles is a mirage. people believe that they're coming to see hollywood august stars are here. the beautiful. girls with that will come take a look at skid row you can compare the third world country this treat is an informal border between shiny downtown l.a. and kids are out behind me in the shadow 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 life and at last resorts in the often on 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 on to the streets the safety of angels is fast becoming a city of homeless george choice 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 system manager auto parts store and. i just. left the ledge and there i don't have any worlds to fill a recent report by the national coalition for the homeless of range los angeles as the neediness city of the country when it comes to dealing with the problem that we're all for all. the homeless and poor treated on it by law enforcement. property in this country has criminal laws your poor your being. general dogan lives in the streets of skid row he says good police have worked out a solution for dealing with the homeless and arrest them for any minor infraction

strategy that's winning the loss of the business community and real estate developers their job is to move all no income and home and out of the great community what they want to do is run all of poor folks out so well it will put money into the area but the sad reality is there is only enough shelters for a tiny fraction of l.a.'s dramatic number of home that's made here says the government's looking the other way and leaving them to rot so the concept i think americans want to play and captain phillips a whole would have been cleaned up their own backyard right here on skid row you've got a large homeless population in america right you have the largest. situation in north all right i mean just this is this area and how this is going to get a hell of a lot worse it's predicted there will be a whopping one million foreclosures in california in the coming year so while joe

schmoe and so many others are suffering the same plight might be praying that one day they will have a roof over their hands it seems the others will be losing theirs. in the artsy reporting from los angeles california. some other news making headlines around the world now know the political crisis in mali is deepening as insurgents of violence towards new targets in the north the rebellion is being posed to by all means coming from libya after last year's war that unhappy with the way the president was handling the insurgency the military seized power last week then called the situation critical competed for outside help because being condemned internationally and mollie's neighbors have threatened severe economic sanctions. at least eleven people are being killed and more than one hundred wounded in southern thailand after a series of blasts in a commercial hub first two bombs were hidden in motorcycles while the third was in a car several shops caught fire and many parked vehicles were damaged bombings are

common in the insurgency hit far south where over five thousand people have been killed in the past eight years. fierce fighting erupted between the army and suspected al-qaeda militants in southern yemen seventeen soldiers and thirteen insurgents were killed after islamists attacked army positions in the town of yemeni fighter jets launched airstrikes forcing militants to retreat he tell neighbors of young province an al qaeda stronghold. where the u.s. soldier accused of killing seventeen afghan civilians under investigation the shinton still trying to mend its relationship with cardboard but the massacre along with the recent gurning of the qur'an of the u.s. airbase means afghan leaders aren't accepting the apologies are things major contributor says washington needs to revise its strategy for a to strip of. afghanistan. might probably be remembered as run of

the most unfortunate and that least successful trip ever conducted by the pentagon chief afghanistan came made a political blunder even before he boarded he explained where after the koran burning he authorized the u.s. commander in afghanistan to visit draw all american advisors from their afghan institutions both military and civilian so a lot of small wonder about here left kabul two lemons first from karzai we theists ultimatum to corral all u.s. ground forces into their forward operating bases and to effectively and no invoice any nitrates games he's taliban brothers and second from the taliban when they announce their posts hold of the negotiations we have their american partners regarding their reconciliation the next time a real jump aboard the plane should go to make sure that he's bound

to islamabad and to kabul if he really means business. stonings labor camps so one of the pages in the history of the soviet union thousands of people would simply go 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 peter all of them were taken over. 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 name all the victims and pass the knowledge of what happened here on to future generations. was

an inmate at the perm camp in one thousand nine hundred eighty four he was sentenced to seven years for agitation and anti salvia 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. the freedom to actually say anything you wanted without fear what else could they do to you they were in prison already today gay is a human rights not the best 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 a punishment cell you had to stay without warning underwear and bedding it was usually very cold which was serious we had to sleep on barren planks with no pillock. and you see in a current thirty six hours 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 extraordinary because it's a unique place they have no other. camp but all of the holes of it and. however current 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 say 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 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 a decent future. peter oliver r.t.

. the decline of the us dollar is not a surprise to some traders many analysts even suggest is still priced higher than is true vernie china is rising as an economic power will soon overtake america a resident in new york asks people on the streets whether they're willing to use alternatives to the 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 go well why don't you think that because it will make you more competitive in export markets either we're all going no we're all going to i mean every country every country that and the world time in rural you know the

mines might be december twenty first so we're going to be the currency it was money in for yet 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 and. you know we're we're not people are working really good so would you be willing to pay the money in chinese yuan if it keeps going with them when absolutely i think we're very depending on the dollar as the international trade depending on the dollar do you think it's going to change to something like the chinese yuan or the euro any time soon because there's a lot of lots of the euro the euro is really showing off. 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 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 consider using

or saving other currencies like the you are under the euro. personally you know. why do you think americans are only paying 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 it's too many people in the us are just to us centered focus in terms of their outlook on the world well. part of it is a function of geography so america basically occupying the 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 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 us dollar is on the decline the bottom line is you might want to start paying attention to what other currencies are bailing.

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