science technology innovation called the list of elements from around russia we've got the future covered. syria says all attempts to wells' the regime have failed even as a u.s. led pro opposition group of nations meet with the aim of aiding the rebels calls. beijing levels criticism of washington neighborhood sanctions against countries that can't buy oil from iran. and cities across the globe switch off the lights for us to do their bit for the environment moscow is among those plunged into darkness the top stories this hour.

around the clock around the world this is all to live in moscow syria's government says attempts to topple the regime of failed but insist troops will stay in cities until security is assured as is the opposition look for help from abroad 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 the sort of reports hosting the second meeting of the group could prove a test for turkey once a major ally for syria. taiki the heart of the activity at the moment is it prepares the play has to the friends the syria meeting the country's once again found itself at the center stage the push to pressure the assad regime it has a history common history in syria. it feels justified it is going to fly to a certain extent to circle it as long as while it's going to spy having formally built

up close economic ties to syria and sharing more than one hundred kilometers the border with its neighbor distance between the two countries is now a gulf with turkey stance seemingly closely aligned to that of arab countries such as guitar and saudi arabia and less strong calls for regime change. very early in a piece of syria you might remember. very quickly and very confrontational attitude towards. the struggle against him in fact i went in one of. the syrian national council themselves and battling their own fears divides in fact the great lost a number of members recently as accusations now that they're not representative of the interests of the syrian people but this isn't seen as he. was outside of inside here. someone who was new boy who was

a peaceful monastery and muslim brotherhood. a lot of. members look forward to this. also if the syrian opposition desperately trying to bridge their own divisions turkish government is now left in a difficult situation so it is more after these things that we all deserve the only thing that something can push in the region change otherwise turkey is capacity to the arab world through syria will be very very you know 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 maced is still left to guess what's really going on behind closed doors to turkey to once again emerge as a major regional powers syria is certainly preaching at thirty thousand feet and very much to lead the way it applying pressure all its full knowledge that an end to the violence that many here in the turkish government to also the wrong we've

now could lead to a confrontation with the syrian army and the escalation of an already incredibly volatile regional situation the surface of thing is that book. of conference you a secular state hillary clinton is in saudi arabia reaching washington's key regional allies the saudis in qatar have been leading calls to start arming the syrian rebels and weigh in with military force because chris bambery thinks the u.s. is reluctant to get involved directly but will indorse action through proxies. the saudis are very keen to overthrow the assad regime as soon as possible and want to increase the arms which have gone 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 they know all the providing weapons probably also means involve providing weapons instructions and so on and can lead to

involvement in a conflict which the sea nor easy solution to is the americans for the wrong reasons in part because the rule of restraints in afghanistan and elsewhere by hesitance escalating arms supplies to the rebels the west has almost all the words 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 things in the way they use that when you don't like a regime they will use the human rights cards when the wake of regime silence over the question of human rights as they have done without the saudi arabian saudi arabian regime and indeed back when we don't hear any condemnation from hillary clinton or david cameron. r.t. live here in moscow with the twenty four hours a day still to come this hour accommodation prices go through the roof in ukraine as for the european championship draws closer landlords are looking to cash

a lot of fans but it's feared moving the goalpost will send crowds packing in also . one by one cities around the world go dark for global earth hour this year we've got some surprising new comers including the international space station one that coming up. first 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 u.s. wants to strangle iranian oil trade in an attempt to make the country abandon its nuclear program under the new restrictions to come into force in june any foreign banks doing all related deals with iran would be cut off from america's financial system but 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 a political commentator turan says washington is being overoptimistic. i believe.

the us not being. such as china russia where 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. resurgent economy and a recovery is not going to last as a matter of fact. as long as the energy stocks are doing well therefore president obama has very little time this is. the greatest but it is very ill advised the us allies will have to bear the brunt of not a hasty action from washington now 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.

spain has been hit by the toughest spending cuts and its more than history with the country's young government down 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 tax and sturgeon changes in labor laws of sent hundreds of thousands protesting on the streets but economic analyst michael ross believes spain will not be able to push the cuts through anyway. what i can see is the waters don't want to make the spanish government is not only is it if pill it's also impossible when you look at the private sector private circuit is totally over get more or less bankrupt when you look at the banks over there banquet central bank government also mourners bankrupt 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 wall be obviously not working the first is that we will have ground 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 euros in order to refinance themselves so if this if we could come to this point then i think. germany will pull out of the euro. as europe struggles to create its own financial farden 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 is too many people in the us are just to us centered focus in terms of their outlook on the world dollar is declining so are your president ask people on

the streets what could be an alternative that's coming up later for you in the program. from city to new york thousands of cities across the world are turning off the lights for this year as part of a global effort to raise awareness about climate change in the fronts expense. the observance of global earth hour begins in sydney and winds its way time zone by time zone around the globe now here in russia it's estimated that fifteen million people operatives a painting in paris. the lights major buildings here in moscow are shut off moscow state university is dark as the academy of sciences and many other buildings people are gathered with lit candles and they are also lighting lanterns from them out into the sky some newcomers to this include the international space station astronauts observing what is happening from space taking photos and even blogging about it on the european space agency's website many major landmarks around the

world are going dark including london's big bad and the golden gate bridge in the united states including even parts of the great wall of china this is about raising awareness for climate change. this is about alerting people to the necessity in the global community of a trash addressing the consumption levels of energy whether they're fossil fuels or electricity so it's about global community together and curbing some of those bad habits we have that might contribute to global climate change now it's one hundred thirty five countries and more and more people every year are getting involved. with the euro football championship just a few months away fans of booking places to stay when they go to watch the teams play over a million are expected to travel and ukrainians. looking to get a tidy profit from each of them and. reports it's true that some fans watched home

instead. well the death of the euro twenty two hour football championship has not even begun in ukraine but this ski of pensioner is already in high spirits here or soon will. come out of the leaves this summer storm and is her last real chance to earn some money since in the us is that our bench and are next to nothing our days are numbered and we 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. so via 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 mordantly designed and fully equipped flat be prepared to

pay a fortune to us and you this is an only apartment in central kiev 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 period. which makes it and policed four hundred euros a night and this is not a record breaker some hostels which were previously cost thirty euros are now available at fifteen times the price and what overstrain 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 end we'll the house concluded in the past. accommodation project do road travel projects do roll it. it's just the lack of a viable accommodation very expensive most of them university dormitories sure you can stop in a tent but for reasonable just a hotel bed and breakfast type wise i think we're going to get up salute strong

skyrocketing prices urged people to stand a stern warning to ukraine's government which promised to take action. have a risk of ending up half empty we have warned their owners to lower the prices with so many low cost airlines being able to bring fans for games into the out of ukraine they might as well decide against paying here just coming for one day. 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 is a great risk private landlords could end up rough with less ukraine has already spent fourteen billion euros into the euro twenty eight wealth 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 see reporting from kiev in ukraine

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video on demand parties minefield comes an r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. question on the com. los angeles california america's capital of the rich and famous but behind the glamorous hollywood facade hides another reality tens of thousands of homeless people who say they're trapped inside the criminal justice system l.t.s. medina culture never. the city of angels and promise 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. and you. and the girls that will come take a look at skid row you can compare it to third world countries this treat is an

informal border between shiny gala town a lake and skidrow behind me in the shadow of the down delhi skyline stray 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 record amounts of foreclosures have bangs turfing people out of their property case and on to the streets the city of angels is fast becoming a city of holiness joshua is among them two years ago he lost his job and while his income came to an ad for upholds the bill certainly didn't well i was working as a assistant manager auto parts store and. i just. left the ledge and there 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 in the country when it comes to dealing with the problem that we're all. home with the poor treated under by law enforcement probably in this country has been a criminal was your poor your. general dogan lives in the streets of skid row he says the police have worked out a solution for dealing with the homeless i was asked them for. any minor infraction a strategy that some winning the applause of the business community and real estate developers their job. and home as well out of the growth of a community what they want to do with his world all are poor so to. put money into the area but the sad reality is there is only enough shelters for a tiny fraction of las 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. cap and food would have been cleaned up their own backyard right here on skid row you know if you've got the largest most popular in america you have the largest. middle situation going on right here i mean it just is this is this area 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 listening beers. in a question authority reporting from los angeles california. some other news making headlines around the world now and. a cease fire is being struck between rival militias after a week of heavy clashes in southern libya the fighting has left almost one hundred fifty people dead and four hundred wounded

a new government is faced with continued violence between former rebels and ethnic tribes still on months after the revolution and death of colonel gadhafi. 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 water i'm happy with the way the president was handling the insurgency the military seized power last week but then called the situation critical completed for outside help cool has been can be. internationally and ali's neighbors have threatened severe economic sanctions. at least eleven people 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 on the third was in a car several shops caught fire in many parked vehicles the damage 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 mullah yemeni fighter jets launched airstrikes forcing militants to retreat the town neighbors abyan province which is an al qaeda stronghold stalin's labor camps were one of the darkest pages in the history of the soviet union thousands of people were sent to good legs to rot simply for having views different from the communist system now one of them has become a museum and a reminder to future generations not to repeat the mistakes of the past people of when to take a look. hidden away in the ural mountains hundreds of kilometers from the nearest city is turn 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 give video was an inmate of the perm camp in one nine hundred seventy four he was sentenced to seven years for agitation and the 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 their friends the 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 college months earlier to stay without warm and aware and bedding it was usually very cold which was serious he had to sleep on bare and planks with no pillow. and museum and perm 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 it's extraordinary because it's in the. halls of. russia however turn thirty six is not the only place that the repressions of the soviet era are 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 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 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 and many analysts even suggest it's still priced higher than is true value china is rising as an economic power and will soon overtake america residence in new york asked people on the streets there whether they are 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 that would that's reasonable to assume no my husband doesn't go. why don't you pick that because it will make you want competitive election i think 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 miners might be wrote december twenty first so what's going to be the currency in mind if 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 who are working for you so would you be willing to save money in chinese yuan if it keeps going with them when absolutely i think we're very putting on the dollar as the international trade. on the dollar do you think it's going to change to something like the chinese yuan or the euro any time soon was it out of the euro the euro. really showing off his weakness or sort of this 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 tighter. it's not transparent enough for me do you think that it's time to start considering using or staving other currencies like he was 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 well. part of it is is a function of geography so america basically are to get by in 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 pads stunted our growth as a people oh yeah i think it can lead to some cultural isolation but they're not you care if 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. and it's twenty seven minutes past the hour here in the russian capital and a couple of minutes from now max and stacey will be discussing the world's financial headlines and the cause report before that i'll be back with our top stories this hour stay with us live here in moscow.

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