first ceasefire in over a year of violence between syrian forces and armed rebels comes into force following a u.n. deadline meanwhile brush up calls for international monitors to help keep the peace . out of the frying pan and into the red payday loan companies offering crippling interest rates are replacing banks and the debt ridden britain for people looking for a character low quick fix. and as egypt's first presidential campaign since mubarak's fall gathers pace there's criticism that the country could well end up with a dictator as its leader yet again. thanks

for joining arche this thursday and saying the clock here in moscow and carrots are actually syria remains mostly calm after the un brokered cease fire between the government and the opposition came into force on thursday morning a truce resulting from the mediation efforts of international envoy kofi annan is the first in the yearlong violence but as a son a boy reports from damascus with mutual distrust between the sides peace remains fragile this ceasefire came into effect at six am local time and so far it's been holding syrian to finance minister promise not to conduct any operations and have found safe again as they are military groups and while be did say that they were. reserve their right to retaliate in case their units 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 silence has its guns damascus has obviously been spared the destruction and violence that has ravaged some of the northern areas of syria but these tracks of violence is still present in your daily life people have to think twice about where you park your car and they trying not to do that in front of the government offices or police precincts young people are looking for ways to avoid being dropped to get into the army the economy's getting harder to cost of living is increasing drop us here and maybe people here in damascus now are saying that we can discuss political changes later on the first thing that should be done is to stop violence russia's foreign

minister is calling for an immediate deployment of international monitors to syria to help maintain the troops and a meeting with g eight partners in washington some good left over also accuse some countries of being unwilling to help bring peace. reports from the u.s. capitol. a lot of skepticism kerry in washington about kofi annan plan and the u.s. accepted the plan but it almost designated it as doomed even before the plan had a chance to work we have the russian foreign minister in town for they gave their own meeting here in washington he said russia is very supportive of the plan and would do everything they can to make sure it holds and that dialogue begins between the opposition and the government the syrian government said its armed forces will remain on standby to retaliate against any attacks by armed terrorist groups against civilians or troops whereas the russian foreign minister said. talking about the importance of having monitors to verify the situation on the ground rules 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 we don't rule provocations that's why the presence of educated monitors on the ground is very important russia's stance remains the same and that is all parties must lay down their arms but for a cease fire to work on all sides and to commit to it as far as the rhetoric between the u.s. and russia it's tense to say the least their current state hillary clinton said russia's refusal to support or don't call it constructive action by the u.n. security council on the crisis in syria is keeping its president bashar al assad in power there policymakers 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 here is how the russian foreign minister addressed some of those accusations most of the side is in power not because russia and china support him but because he represents a considerable number of syrians according to some estimates it's more than half of the population it can ask is to get all sides to the negotiating table we're also

trying to influence the syrian opposition groups but it's also absolutely clear that some of our international partners tell them different things and prevent them from making any concessions so. sergey lavrov when fillery claimed to have a bible. meeting today here in washington we hope to hear more even though the u.s. accepted kofi annan plan which addresses all sides of the conflict not just the syrian government washington's they are all things to put all responsibility in the hands of president authorized and never mentions the opposition which also has to lay down their arms turkey has hinted it may ask for nato help to protect its borders after gunfire from syrian skirmishes reached its territory a few days ago now clark a journalist and contributor to britain's guardian newspaper believes maintaining calm in syria largely depends on the behavior of outside forces it's interesting to hear the west response because the only snow is on the western powers and on saudi

arabia and all turkey it's on those countries that are backing your positions and tell them to support the peace peace plan to stop this talk about arming them stop this talk about regime change and then if they do this we could get peace in syria because we would have a democratic framework to do so because there's two sides to this conflict obviously the west is betraying this conflict as if you don't need the assad regime which is 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 the rhetoric from the west the british foreign secretary calling for assad to go to work i'm struck is a very hopeful. always eager to know your stance on the story today at r t dot com we're asking you whether syria will see a complete ceasefire this week at the moment over forty percent of you say the syrian national council will push for in libya style intervention scenario in the country while a third think that neither president assad's forces nor the rebels will lay down

arms over a fifth believe the rebels will have to back down to maintain the ceasefire and only three percent of you are up the opinion that international pressure will successfully and the called liked castro quote at archie dot com. with the e.u. delusion and it's not only governments looking for crisis couch bank credit dries up for those in desperate need of companies providing so-called payday loans are booming offering money but at a very high price as artie's laura smith reports short term funds often lead to long term debt. leaks played longer 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 solution can become a long term trap i took out was around line then basically what happened next month

is our pride one hundred one back out and back about a hundred and six day went on when i was stuck in the four that was not compared to what it is this is not until recently payday loans with the preserve of the desperate fast easy no questions asked cash the catch punitive interest rates in some cases a staggering one thousand seven hundred percent a year but according to a report by accountants pricewaterhouse coopers in these times of economic hardship with traditional credit like cards and bank loans harder to come by payday loans are becoming part of the fabric of the u.k.'s economic society the only growth sector in the consumer credit market what's happening in the current economic climate is that people are going girl new credit card that people don't want long term disability because they're worried about the future income stream called

a job so the ability to borrow just the money you need for a short period of time many people are finding much more of contagious running up long term good contribute as bond status maybe if you pay it off straight away but 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 court trust people will average twelve hundred pounds and forty percent of the borrowing but it's a case of basic living. even more worryingly mooste tough to forage that pays a company to pay off another. pay day. now the average pay day barua has loans from different companies and they're constantly targeted by the firms both somehow managed to get my number off this one company these are the different martins techs to me and say. you want to do one or buy

a line you've excepted use the chance to get your loan and then it is all these different companies texting me in nor is me really because i think. why would you want to get somebody in debt like this monthly to 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 thinking about this. and can you afford to do that would you be able to afford my laura smith party can't but the crisis in europe had seen a brief aspirant after greece narrowly escaped a fault but now it's flaring up again with spain being in the eye of the storm but closer and so see her give their unique take on the situation later today. a lot of easy money courtesy of the european central bank may for a calm start to twenty twelve but a poor spanish bond sale last week signals it may have only been a law before the debt storm breaks analysts warn why i think of it more of

a debt fondu really with that boy you take a country like greece you stick it on the farm do fork any dip into the debt and then your servant have to go. oh. great now spain is being thrown into the debt fondu. eleven minutes past the hour and egypt is preparing to vote for its next leader the first presidential poll since the fall of hosni mubarak scheduled for next month the election has been overshadowed however controversial candidates accused of offering i'll promise us president goals plains of the democracy egyptians fall for is anything but certain the list is long but the choice may be limited with just a little over a month left in for the crucial presidential pulls the complain is off to

a start the liberal candidates believe this election is a ploy to intermitting whether the egyptian revolution will sink or swim hold on to date of revolution in the city's transitional period and it's not clear when it will reach its final destination in skills of freedom and social justice haven't been breached yet. moree he looks through committee will have to sift through more than twenty names on the list of those who applied for the country start job but they aren't there once faced with a crucial choice it's. a choice. if you. know there are. some things. you think it's. all you don't really follow and people number of people of various fear of the islamists who have been unleashed

deliberately by the staff by the military so the people would have patrols to be between is a. secular military the people should all of. the people ship the muslim brotherhood's freedom and justice party or j.p. already holds the majority of seats in the country's parliament and promised to abstain from presidential elections later backtracked on their words many question whether such a staunch group of islamist may be successful in giving the egyptians civil liberties and freedoms they demanded a team of the f.t.p. members disembarked in washington d.c. last week her charm offensive on both the western politicians and media to prove sharia law does not mean a return to the dark ages yet when you're skeptical of the sincerity of the competing this is an ideological to pollute perry an organization to measure the communist party when's and america and says we will not. impose we will respect

capitalism who would believe such a thing where you meet say something like that practically but you know and probably when they become powerful he will follow the program the alternative hosni mubarak's former prime minister foreign minister and chief of intelligence are hardly better off. and as many here they would return things back to where they were before the revolution i see the soul like a place. just because from the skies meet. they can look at me for they see. me just living play with them over the earth it's easy. so i don't want to be in this place i don't want to leave but if they would she's. saying i'm not going to if you think it's too. late and does the much more to the presidential election in egypt may turn out to be just another big disappointment in cairo in a go pro team. with our team still ahead on the program reaching for the stars

while the world remembers the historic first manned space journey a russian reveals ambitious plans to explore the moon and stay there later we report on how the hopes are flying high. there hasn't been anything yet the key. is to get

the maximum political impact. before the source material is hopes journalism on the we. we want to visit. something else. thanks for joining our team at sixty minutes past the hour and as the world celebrates the fifty first anniversary of the first manned space flight by unity guided russian scientists have revealed an ambitious plan to make it to the moon and stay there archie's town bar now takes a look at the next giant leap for mankind. to put a man on the move to 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 will go slower than trying

to not stay where it is now for a long time we have been successful in exploring near earth space it's time to move beyond it a goal is to put one man 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 base there and on the minute 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 leaks vast quantities of frozen water have been 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 climates in a frozen state it's impossible to investigate them from afar so we should deliver

those samples back to or 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 between to the 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 so scientists and new ships have been taking too long to live. 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 know. so for now sticking with the moon might be ambitious enough. some tentative mars missions as well as the world remembers and probably made it up to space in the first place those in charge of course generation marking the great news of the past and start making some of their own box and.

we're also covering the fifty first anniversary of the first manned space flight on our website on our dot com among the stories a scrub up for a cosmic hero and a group of enthusiastic sets about launching the forty meter monument of space. in time for the anniversary celebrations of its historic flight and it's certainly been a lift off for all the dirt and grime for the footage and for. also therefore of legs good ole paula mania sweeps through a colombian village preparing to present a u.s. president with find out the name of this very special gift at our. secret lover a jury. believes most sophisticated with. those

interviews with don't worry about anything. to teach me why you should care about humans. this is why you should care only. iran will not give up its right to nuclear energy despite pressure from the west the countries of president mahmoud ahmadinejad made the declaration ahead of this weekend's talks on the issue with major world powers in turkey the first of their kind in more than a year earlier talk around the signal it's going to come forward with new initiatives same japanese being the peaceful nature on fixing their program the u.s. on the e.u. however seem odd convinced enough will be done to lift tough sanctions including an oil exports ban imposed over worries the islamic state is working on the nuclear poem talking to r t a former national security advisor to president obama says there is nothing wrong with iran developing nuclear capabilities for peaceful

purposes as long as it's willing to play by the rules his full interview is coming up later this hour but here is a preview iran. should have access to a peaceful nuclear power if it wishes if iran seriously wants through. play according to the game play board of the rules that all of us play by. signing the documents the guarantee of certain behavior. there's no reason to run. nuclear power into a clear or a power for peaceful use so that to iran and say you know. we want to be like north korea during your term years from now living in the world was illusion. let's take a look at some other news from around the world us our palestinian leaders have rejected israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu the latest invitation to

regional peace talks insisted israel stops its construction of jewish settlements first which are being built against un resolutions and widespread international opposition 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 qaida and yemeni soldiers continues for a fourth day running over one hundred seventy people have been killed in the fighting and the 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 longtime leader. from power. 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 and us again has met him at a detention center near tripoli earlier this month where he certainly would 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 at trial at the i.c.c. would remove the threat out of a death sentence if he's convicted on charges of killing protesters during last year's uprising. let's now turn to dimitri's got the business news for us and the spotlight today is on the arctic for russia that is correct russia is trying to ease the burden for companies developing the country's arctic shelf all new project will be exempted from export juiciness and they will have lower extraction tax now rather like that in a person says these special terms would last for fifteen years the government

believes this could help bring in more than five hundred billion dollars of investment over the next thirty years. but that announcement was made after the close of the markets here in russia as regular was going on elsewhere in the united states it's a pretty positive session more than one point one percent for both the dow jones and the nasdaq there was a batch of economic data coming out. different kind of mood first of all we saw unemployment jobless claims are coming up to a two and a half month high and that the mover there wholesale prices came out flat with energy prices actually lower than they were a month ago and therefore all the optimism that we're seeing right now over in europe also a positive session with a full sea ended up more than one percent also in italian. took place today the results can be characterized as not bad because they were quite poor but not as as

bad as it was for you. also on the come on currencies markets we're seeing the euro strengthening versus the dollar on the back of those wholesale prices reports and therefore the russian ruble is gaining for a second day against the basket of currencies on the high oil prices and indeed we are seeing light sweet coming up more than one dollar brant almost a full of post barrels higher and that's again on the back of those energy prices actually producing in the u.s. and therefore more optimism about the u. purchasing power and demand there for in the country or world for energy. over here in russia the markets didn't have that much time to react to the positive thousand coming out of the united states and therefore we're seeing a mixed picture it would be my sex to lower it in the two years because of the stronger ruble. on the my sex gas problem will be in the spotlight at

a time or oh as soon as the markets open we will see a reaction to those tax burden eases that the government is pushing for after vast was down almost two percent as the company was boring two billion dollars to modernize its copper duction facilities and i would use all the sparkling wine producer was up almost one percent better than the market in its second day of trading although trading i have to admit it's quite fit. that's the way the markets look this karen try to make sure thank you very much for that day next up here on r t we talk to a man who used to be part of iraq obama's inner circle that's after a recap of our top stories with me. if. you.

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