the first ceasefire in over a year of violence between syrian forces and the rebels comes into full following a u.n. deadline meanwhile russia calls for international monitors to help to keep the peace. out of the frying pan and into the red payday loan companies offering crippling interest rates are replacing buying britain for people looking for a quick fix to their cash flow. and as the world marks the fiftieth anniversary of the first manned space flight russian scientists unveil ambitious plans to set foot

permanently. it's good to have you with us today this is the with me real reception i live in moscow syria does remain calm after the un brokered cease fire between the government and the opposition came into force on thursday morning the truce resulting from the mediation efforts of international envoy kofi annan is the first in the year long violence result he's off on a block of reports from damascus with mutual distrust between both sides. the ceasefire came into effect at six am local time and so far it's been holding syrian to finance minister promise not to contact any operations any have found so if they can stay armed military groups while they did say that they reserve the

right to retaliate in case they are being attacked as for the syrian opposition what we're hearing from various members of various opposition groups is that there are going to respect the cease fire and they promise not to open fire if the regular army indeed silences its guns damascus has obviously been spared the destruction and violence that has iraq has some of the northern areas of syria but these stress of violence is still present in your daily life people have to think twice about where you park your car and they try not to do that in front of the government offices a police precinct a young people are looking for ways to avoid being dropped to get into the army the economy's getting harder and the cost of living is increasing jobs are scarce and many people here in damascus now saying that we can discuss political changes later on the first thing that should be done is to stop the

violence so if you support a boycott reporting right moscow is calling for an immediate deployment of international monitors to syria it's all about fears of a renewed on a rest but everything with g. eight partners in washington russia's foreign minister accused some countries of being unwilling to help to bring the peace with the explanation is all she's got a chicken. the g eight ministers are meeting at a very important juncture is the fate of the u.n. and arab league envoy kofi annan peace plan that is now at stake but for a cease fire to work all sides need to commit to a president assad said he will stick to the plan but will reserve the right to respond to terror attacks the russian foreign minister said that in that situation it's important to have monitors to verify what's the situation on the ground here signals moules and i asked the un secretary-general ban ki moon to put forward suggestions as soon as possible as to the format and size of the monitoring mission in syria so we don't rule out provocations and that's why the presence of

independent monitors on the ground is very important to preclude for a moment as far as the rhetoric between the u.s. and russia it's tense to say the least separate state hillary clinton so precious refusal to support quote unquote constructive action by the u.n. security council on the crisis in syria keeping its president bashar al assad in power u.s. ambassador to the united nations susan rice went even further saying russia and china have quote blood on their hands for refusing to go along with an intervention in syria their policy makers here who are very pro intervention and they tend to blame russia for all that's happening in syria at least in their public statements in the meantime moscow's pushing for a political solution with a dialogue between the opposition and the government whereas the u.s. and the u.k. for example and the arab league tends to prompt the syrian opposition not to hold any talks with president assad and to continue fighting the sensually even as if

they say they are also for a political solution the opposite so we're trying to influence the syrian opposition we hold meetings with the opposition inside the country any action on the opposition but it's also absolutely clear that some of our international partners tell them different things and prevent the opposition from making any concessions well and used so there's a lot of rauf also. warrant western and arab nations against arming syrian rebels saying quote even if the syrian opposition is armed to the teeth it will not be able to defeat the syrian army and the bloodshed will go on for years and have quote parties going on if you can right there i mean time in turkey has hinted it may ask for nato help to protect its borders this after gunfire from syrian skirmishers reached its territory just a few days ago neil clark a journalist and contributor to britain's guardian newspaper believes that maintaining calm in syria largely depends on the behavior of outside forces. it's

interesting to hear the west response because the the onus now is on the western powers and on saudi arabia not turkey it's on those countries that are backing your positions and tell them to support the peace a peace plan to stop this talk about arming them stop is talk about regime change and then if they do this we could get peace in syria because we would have a democratic framework to solve this problem there's two sides to this conflict obviously the west is betraying this conflict as it is only the assad regime we used to believe about and of course that's not true what's been going on in syria is an attempt by outside powers to bring about regime change and the rhetoric from the west we've got the british foreign secretary calling for assad to go to war crimes trial isn't very helpful here at r.t. we are always eager to know your stance on the story today on our web site r.t. dot com we're asking you whether syria will see a complete ceasefire this week or let's bring up the numbers of for this off the web site just over forty percent of you now are saying the syrian national council

will push for a libyan style intervention scenario in the country just about a third think neither president assad's forces nor the rebels will lay down their arms over a fifth believe the rebels will have to back down to maintain the cease fire and now we're just about out of four percent of you are of the opinion that international pressure will successfully end of the conflict. now with the e.u. deluged that it's not only governments looking for crisis cash as bank credit dries up for those in desperate need companies providing so-called payday loans are booming offering money but of a very high price as article recently reports short term funds often lead to long term debt. leaks played dotcoms have eaten it all sounds so easy and it is in ten minutes payday loan companies handout short term loans to tide you over till you get your paycheck but kelly smith knows this short term

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so the ability to borrow just the money you need for a short period of time many people are finding much more advantageous to run up long to get on credit cards advantageously maybe if you pay it off straight away the high interest rates and extortionate late charges can make it impossible for people on low incomes to pay off their debts according to research by the deficit hawk trust people on average twelve hundred pounds and forty percent of the borrowing money to pay the basic living costs even more worryingly mooste customers have forage for a payday very company to pay off another. payday loan company now the average payday barua has four loans from different companies and they're constantly targeted by the firms both somehow managed to get my number off this one company this of the different audience texted me and say hi kelly do you want to do you

want to buy a line you've excepted use the chance to get your loan and and it is all these different companies texting me and always me really because i think. why would you want to get somebody in debt like this months later kelly's still trapped in a vicious cycle of debt she doesn't know how she's going to get out of it you have to go cold turkey to get out of smoking in. bars or to get cold turkey to. tell you what to do that would you be able to support. laura smith artie kent. crisis in europe had it seen a brief perspired after greece narrowly escaped default but now it's flaring up again with spain being in the eye of a storm but skies are on stage you have a very unique take on a situation that will be of fifteen to thirty g.m.t. . a flood of easy money courtesy of the european central bank may for

a calm start to two thousand and twelve what a poor spanish bond sale last week signals it may have only been a law well before the debt storm breaks analysts word why i think of it more as a debt fund do really with that you take a country like greece you stick it on the farm do fork and you dip it into the debt and then you serve it up to goldman sachs or j.p. morgan. all this fund is great now spain is being thrown into the debt fondu. live from moscow this is our as the world celebrates the fifty first anniversary of the first manned space flight by eureka ghar and russian scientists have revealed an ambitious plan to make it to the moon and study it or not is told barton now takes a look at the next giant leap for mankind. to put a man on the moon and keep him there that's the aim for space exploration in the

coming decade according to a plan unveiled by moscow's academy of sciences' choice for all this but what's known klein cannot stay where it is now for a long time we have been successful in exploring near earth space it's time to move beyond those who goal is to put rovers on the moon by two thousand and twenty with landing stations established by twenty twenty two which will start the process of building a permanent manned base there have a minit who is that all well say scientists we actually know surprisingly little about our closest cosmic neighbor and the consensus is we should try and prove our skills and science as close as possible to home before attempting any bigger leaps vast quantities of frozen water we discovered under the moon's surface taken there by billions of years worth of collisions with asteroids and what might not be all we find if we look carefully organic samples may have been preserved in comets in

a frozen state it's impossible to investigate them from afar so we should deliver those samples back to earth in the control rooms there have been serious questions about whether we can technically manage a moon base the past year has seen a catalog of areas including a supply rocket on its way to the international space station plunging back to earth and an unmanned mars exploration rocket falling from orbit we're still using technology from the decades of the space race from the fifty's to the eighty's say scientists and new ships have been taking too long to arrive. until we get these new ships we will have problems also many of the people with the knowledge of the old models are no longer with us and the younger generation doesn't have much so for now sticking with the moon might be ambitious in. last with some tentative mars missions planned as well as the world remembers the plane made it up to space in

the first place those in charge of course. all to start marking the breakthroughs of the past and start making some of those some bots and. further moon exploration may mean boundless opportunity and the space entrepreneur jeff. only three nations have send humans to space and now companies are trying to do it and that's a big difference pharmaceutical research growing different process seizing materials and the reduced gravity on the moon maybe you set something up on the far side that really can look scientists i'm sure you could get scientists that are in antarctica today to jump on a rocket ship and spend you know five years on the par side of the moon. we're also covering the fifty first anniversary of the first manned space flight on our website at r.t. dot com among the stories that are scrubbed up for a cosmic hero in moscow a group of enthusiastic set about watching the massive forty meter monument of

space pioneer you will get daryn in time for the anniversary celebrations of the historic flight and certainly been lift off for all the dirt and grime over the statue of the man who believed trail for humanity now sparkling. around of four legs good obama mania sweeps through a colombian village preparing to present the u.s. president with but on. the name of a very special gift that once he'd gone cold. the a. mother limited. it's

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a major world powers in the first of their kind in more than a year earlier tehran signaled it's going to come forward with new initiatives aimed at proving the peaceful nature of its nuclear program the u.s. and the e.u. however seem unconvinced that enough will be done to lift tough sanctions including an oil exports and impose their worries the islamic state is working on a nuclear bomb talking to us here at our see a national security adviser to president obama says there's nothing wrong with iran developing nuclear capabilities for peaceful purposes as always it's willing to play by the rules the full interview coming up later this hour for now a quick look. should have access to peaceful nuclear power. if iran seriously wants through. play according to our game play word of the rules of all of those players were. signed with documents that. sort of behavior. is no reason with

iran. nuclear power for peaceful use so for to iran and so you know. we want to be north korea. living in a world wide solution. twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow we're starting with let's get to the r.t. world operates for you some other global news in brief palestinian leaders have rejected israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is the latest in for taishan to resume peace talks they've insisted that israel stops its construction of jewish settlements first which is being built against un resolutions and widespread international opposition and the palestinian refusal follows yesterday's appeal from the middle east quartet for both sides to take proper steps to improve relations. deadly clashes between fighters linked to al qaeda and yemeni of

soldiers continue for a fourth day running at least one hundred fifty people have been killed in the fighting and airstrikes since monday insurgents have been attacking army barracks trying to retake the strategic southern town of loder it's the latest in a series of deadly confrontations following an uprising which forced a longtime leader. from. the international criminal court has confirmed that saif gadhafi the imprisoned son of the former libyan leader was tortured and abused since his capture last november investigators met him at a detention center near tripoli earlier this month where he said he'd prefer to stand trial in his home country on charges of war crimes however it's believed his decision was made under duress as a libyan official was sitting in on the conversation a trial of the i.c.c. would remove the threat of the death sentence if he's convicted on charges of killing protesters during last year's uprising. hundreds of people have been

demonstrating in the chilean capital santiago against the construction of five dams in patagonia demonstrators fear the project could harm the landscape and wildlife of the southern region police broke up the peaceful march with water cannons and the arrested dozens and chilean supreme court green lighted the project last week rejecting a legal challenge from its critics. party so i could have you with us today here on r.t. after a short break it's dimitri with the hourly business up there. if . me is an evening.

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a common assessment of the results of today's italian bond auction was to say that it was quite poor but not as bad as some had feared now borrowing cost jumped over one percentage point and we have seen the italian treasury sold four point eight billion euros of paper against the maximum target of five billion well the european central bank says it will be buying our bonds if the situation gets worse and from b. to b. capital says this will of course put a cap on the us. as well as spain and this is as well as a european. country a speech. problems they've been placed in. and once way successfully sue the start of the year and it was probably theirs out of e.c.b. support in the future share. their. plane theory for an answer there this. is why i do not despair the youth.

of the thing in the end of last year and probably at least for now the problem with this. look at our europe is reacting and as you can see is pretty upbeat also we've got in the five minutes in the us we have a jobless report and u.s. futures are pointing at a positive open a royal dutch shell is bucking the trend is down five percent in london on rumors that they may be a serious will spill in the gulf of mexico. to move on to russia and here it's quite makes that this hour the r.t.s. a bit still down half a percent although we did see a positive session with yesterday most moving the my sex it's as you can see below the psychologically important market fifteen hundred points lukoil is down point

six percent it says it's was fifty nine gas stations and the belgium after is in the red as it says it will be for it to be absorbed by twenty fifteen for modernization and sparkling wine make up it was up one percent in its second day to . smooth over two currency markets and the euro is gaining strongly versus the dollar lately this is been a good sign of basically money is not moving out of assets into dollars but since the euro is strengthening up so you're. it is not is not as bad as it was before this all the russian ruble is strengthening against the basket of currencies against both the euro and all that and in commodities we also are seeing a rebound in light sweet crude is up half a dollar was all big boost in the previous session while brant is correcting eighteen cents us our. growth in emerging markets is speeding up despite lower demand for their products in the developed world nations pcs index of

business conditions in developing nations rose to more than fifty three points in the first quarter and a reading about fifty means that there's expansion the rebound in manufacturing and growth in the service sector are the main drivers with russia and china lagging behind brazil and india. and that's the way the markets look this hour we will be back in fifty five minutes time to bring you more the headlines are next with rory to stay with us.

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