u.s. officials call on the security council to pressure the syrian government while admitting that the armed opposition is stepping up its attacks as another massacre pulls the country closer to civil war. taking matters into their own hands residents in a small irish town go back to their old currency to save businesses from collapse as more people fear the euro's only heading down the drain. euro two thousand and twelve football tournament kicks off laden with scandal as several european governments boycott championships and maybe human rights and or race issues.

am in moscow i met good to have you with us here on r t our top story the head of the un along with the world bodies envoy to syria want more international pressure on damascus to bring about compliance with the u.n. peace plan but kofi annan also urged the increasingly aggressive rebel forces to lay down their arms as well archie's marine important as the latest from new york. after hours of closed door consultations members of the security council and the secretary-general ban ki moon have come out first mr obama ki-moon saying that kofi annan six point peace plan to stop the violence in syria remains at the center of the international community's efforts clearly nobody has calling this plan a failure and at this point nobody is indorsing any type of military intervention into syria the most important thing right now according to the secretary general is to keep syria from going from a tipping point to

a breaking point joint special envoy for the u.n. an arab league mr kofi annan also has said to the media that what needs to be done now is for the security council to under stand and to come up with a plan in the best way to implement his six point peace plan and that is up to the security council to to work out and decide while the security council unanimously recommitted its support for the kofi annan six point peace plan washington is still blaming syria for all of the ongoing violence u.s. ambassador to the united nations susan rice says that it's the assad government that has been acting outside of its responsibilities and indeed it is not succeeding because the government of syria is not fulfilling its obligations under the annan plan meanwhile russian ambassador to the united nations vitaly churkin all so admitted that there's been a few indications of compliance with the six point peace plan but he said that it's

not just the syrian government that has fallen short it is also the armed opposition group including the free syrian army which just last week announced that it will no longer eg knowledge its commitments under the plan deeming it a failure ambassador churkin said that his counterpart. it's when the security council need to take a look at the entire picture within syria armed opposition groups only. do not only failed to comply to plan but they did clear the it is their intention not to do so which to us is a very dangerous development of it go into productive development russia has proposed an international conference on syria which is similar to what kofi annan has proposed under the title of a contact group now this international conference would include the five veto wielding members of the security council as well as countries that have any

influence on the syrian government and the armed opposition specifically saudi arabia qatar and iran and vascular churkin said that this international conference must be held as soon as possible and that moscow would be willing to schedule it as soon as all parties announce a commitment. the u.n. meeting comes in the wake of another massacre in syria with women and children among dozens of reported victims you and observers have so far been unable to reach the site of the killings to establish what actually happened there are teams marie if an ocean reports from damascus just a warning you may find some of the images in her report disturbing. there is even more confusion about this latest massacre here in syria than all of the previous ones and a lot of the details of alleged witness accounts and video just don't match so far the most extreme death toll. stands at almost one hundred and this is the

figure that's been picked up very quickly by most of the international media immediately after it emerged now the opposition's claim is that government forces shelled to peace in villages in central syria not far from the city of hama and after that allegedly prove. went in and they tied people on the sharks to be stabbed and brainstem in an orgy of violence and to support that the opposition posted a number of videos allegedly from this village show when dead bodies but however these videos contain bodies that by all appearances to degrade or to have died yesterday raising many questions on the military and the truth of their positions claims and just where these bodies came from on the other hand the syrian government has a completely different take on what happened. in syria they say they got

a call from a local resident asking for help after militants took over the village the army has been stationed in this area they've been reporting beforehand that they are preparing for an anti-terrorist operation so after that call they immediately launched this operation and we are receiving right now official. reports from official sources in hama that after the army went in they discovered nine bodies of civilians and following the clashes that occurred after that two officers have been killed and five others have been injured so as you can see. the thing there is a child there while witnesses reports just contradict each other about who was responsible and without credible investigation right now is to go to just simply impossible to establish who was behind this massacre. the syrian government is up against an international media onslaught and foreign funded insurgency according to political analyst adrian sole bucci these are the western media who are saying that

bashar assad is responsible for these killings and from the very beginning president assad said beware of the cable global cable networks because they are spreading blatant lies no doubt mr assad has less control over his country because this country is being invaded by foreign interests by foreign groups who are funded and armed by the united states and other groups for the western powers are really playing with fire trying to generate killings and mass civil war inside syria in order to have an excuse for military intervention or diplomatic political and military intervention we can see that there are definitely criminal organizations operating inside syria as they have done in libya and they are still doing in libya in all these organizations are financed trained and armed by the western powers. still ahead this hour arrival route find out where trees hope to nicaragua are in

the building of a new coast to coast waterway which could threaten to rival the panama canal. from bad to worse egyptians currently mired in political turmoil face another danger that threatens both the economy and the health of the region. but first an upcoming report by the international monetary fund are expected to show spain needs at least forty billion euros to bolster its banking sector credit ratings agency fitch cut the country's sovereign ratings saying madrid was especially vulnerable to a worsening of the eurozone debt crisis and moody's rating agency said earlier ireland may need a new bailout after the existing bill of the program expires in two thousand and fourteen despite these troubles residents of one irish town of already revived their old currency to help businesses arrive by the economic downturn as artie's laura smith reports their experiment has softened the blow. in the middle it's a blast from the past as this comes to may uses the irish punt to pay for some

every day purchases in the town of cleverness on and joined the fray from the get go in two thousand and two but crisis hit business saying is hey you have revived the old currency to try and desperately clewiston cash back into the community if you bring in pointed to us twenty point whatever you spend our fifty point five you spend we would give you a change of tone this time vouchers which you can then go and spend cross the road and supervise you on the create no ten or go for a drink up the town it's it's a great scheme for the time it means all the money remains within the town as for the euro here it's been reduced to a novelty item printed on tissues and toilet paper and customers come from miles around to spend that puts off and stopping by for a haircut while the hair oh yeah definitely a lot of people come from across the border from about faustus passed on from from people. don't us have a complication months women can have scott pam in that if. there's an estimated two

hundred eighty five million tucked away in draws and under much mrs forgotten about ok to souvenirs when i joined the euro a decade ago they're no longer legal tender but would have a value of around two hundred forty million euros just a fraction of which would make a massive difference in crisis hit. the permit scheme has undoubtedly boosted the local economy but the ravages of the economic crisis still all to evidence the main street is lined with boarded up shops with around fifty percent of premises empty it's a scene that's repeated in small towns and biggest cities throughout. austerity here means business people are being hit with a variety of taxes and levies making it harder and harder to stay afloat let alone turn a profit it's not just one of the towns the whole country has suffered with stars he measures with the. new water charges which are common in shortly you household

charge which which came in this year will increase every year. there was a two percent hike up to twenty three percent in the point of sale tax which we have to do something something to improve the situation shopkeepers say going back to the point isn't a political statement it's a survival tactic and as the face of the euro hangs in the balance clearness may not be alone in looking back for its future euro smith r.t. closest island or ireland may be turning to its old currency italy is turning to its old ways banks there are reluctant to lend money and some struggling businesses have no choice but to borrow from the mafia economics bird ohman gardy says the government's policies could be partly to blame for the criminal boom. beginning movement. on the saudi and economies particularly strong now are because mafia is cash when you go clinton small businesses particularly in the south and in the

center of the country that running short of cash and have some kind of relationship with market because they were for years to buy protection from a few that you may need to do mafia as the investor so to say capital and they may go into the black sector for getting money not get out to show the banking sector this is very troubles and it's a very important point and shoot can our government really need. to fix some of the problems that are troubling details in a commune pretty easy to do we need to do six ation there's still a bit more money available to tell him because this is more legitimate money coming out of customers and not coming out of mafia and can you're not going to say. well that's how in authorities may be wrestling with a lot cosa nostra in nearby greece it's wrestling in parliament that sparked a manhunt for the m.p. responsible as r t reports online freezes neo nazi golden dawn party member

assaults to left wing female deputies on a live television and watch the lively debate on our website. also online millions of user passwords from a professional linked in a website posted online revealing a level of desperation among people seeking jobs all the details at r.t. dot com. political parties in egypt have agreed on how to select the panel battle write the country's new constitution after a push from the ruling military council the previous panel was dissolved after secular and liberal members organized a walkout complaining islam is dominated the assembly preparations for the new constitution come as a gypsy is prepared to head to the polls for the upcoming highly contested election a runoff scheduled to happen. the end of next week voters watched the choose between the muslim brotherhood candidate mohamed morsi and hosni mubarak's last prime minister ahmed shafik as artie's policy reports egyptians are tangled in the

political web to the point where they're failing to spot a growing danger of that now not only of the economy but also their health. it took this famine forty seven years to accumulate his wealth and just one week to lose a third of its own that you have. one morning open this place and found three buffalo lying down they wouldn't eat or drink anything all the houses in this village all the farmers here lost cattle within a month a foot in mouth disease killed thousands of cattle buffalo sheep and other livestock across egypt in march the united nations declared it a catastrophe and warned the epidemic could threaten human food supplies far and wide but egyptian politicians were too busy with the revolution to take much notice for the work done by the government did not do anything for us my animals are dying one by one and no one does anything i was lucky. egyptians say the situation has

been worsened by a climate of corruption. in government employees. and we saw corruption give very called the free business paying me to be free to do anything when it was found out a new strain on the disease had hit egypt it seemed heart rates soaring and prices rocketing and people got afraid and stopped buying meat choosing instead to eat chicken and fish this pushed the price of poultry up by more than fifty percent while the cost of meat remained the same hussein says he's lost sixty percent of his business and is struggling to make ends meet the. things keep getting worse no one's buying from me and i'm more people are waiting to hear if they can trust him a lot. but they might be waiting a while if ther very for the roof and this has never affected the speed to this day

to see all corrupt state or only the people who show difference don't want any sort of slaves they protest by the state that mean bureaucracy has never changed and doctors have taken to the streets to protest against a government budget proposal that allocates less than five percent of spending to the health sector but their despondent priorities are not private. the previous regimes. the security regime security the paramount most important issue for them so they spent. a lot of money there was a lot of news hold our taxes disappear there were a lot of corruption and with all this work is left for actually improvement of services. and so behind the country's political jockeying is an unfolding public

health disaster with potentially much larger implications for egypt and what happens on the political front. r.t. . nicaragua's government plans to build a thirty billion dollar trade route to rival the panama canal and several countries including russia vying for the chance to fund the planned artie's daniel bushell has more. united states is the law and share of trade between the atlantic and pacific oceans ever since it opened the panama canal but now russia plans to build a deeper void to rival through neighboring nicaragua that's threatens the hugely profitable existing routes traders increasingly go for joint ships that are too big for the existing canal but russia may not get the contract to project a wrecked assist china japan and venezuela also to form the thirty billion dollar plan. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe the u.n. nuclear war will urge iran for a deal that will allow its inspectors to visit

a military tom plex where suspected nuclear weapons research has been done the meeting is scheduled for later today in vienna but the islamic republic's not expected to make any major statements before broader talks at the end of next week in moscow a number of western countries fear ron's been attempting to create nuclear weapons tehran maintains its program is set up for peaceful purposes. dozens of been killed after government troops clash with al qaeda fighters in yemen militants were fought off by armed civilians and soldiers after storming the town of north town in north of jar the bottle left at least twenty dead three others were killed when warplanes bombed a vehicle in the south believed to belong to al qaeda forces yemeni troops are trying to replay in towns seized by militants last year during the uprising against president saleh. sixteen students were killed thirty two injured after their bus plunged into a ravine near the bolivian capital the students all of between the ages of sixteen

and eighteen were in route to la paz for a sporting event so divers say the accident happened when the driver let another bus pass him on a narrow road police are still searching through the wreckage and say the death toll could rise. a federal judge in the u.s. says washington can't indefinitely detain american suspected of having terrorist ties unless they can be linked to the september eleventh attacks this comes six months six months after president obama signed the national defense authorization act attorney carl meyer says the act is one of the many reasons why the freedom of americans could be under attack. but all of this is gone too far in this country where civil liberties are increasingly under attack not just from drones that are being sent over american cities not just from the police are now in paramilitary garb not just from wiretapping of citizens phones but the the ultimate attack on

our civil liberties was in this case the homeland battlefield act who are otherwise known as the national defense authorization act the n.b.a. which threatened to put him in a military prison indefinitely without benefit a trial lawyer anyone who quit would substantially supported al qaeda were quote associated forces usa today did editorial and to realize that indefinite detention is un-american and it is un-american for president obama to continue to try to indefinitely detain u.s. citizens who are exercising their for their freedom of speech rights is contrary to everything that a constitutional law professor such as himself ought to stand for the euro two thousand and twelve football championships are finally here millions of fans descending upon poland in ukraine hoping their team will net the so where but the tournaments already proving controversial with government boycotts from several european countries threatening to spoil the beautiful game r.t.

sports presenter kate park strange has more from kiev. year zero twenty twelve with co-host poland and ukraine and another political controversy has hit the event before it even starts the french sports minister has announced that the french government will be boycotting the event in protest over the alleged mistreatment of former ukrainian prime minister yulia timoshenko is being held in the ukrainian city of kharkiv while this follows on the back of racism issues which have also arisen in england particularly following on from the broadcast of the b.b.c. panorama programme stadiums of hate which went out last week in court and cause shock waves throughout england as it highlighted racism and anti semitic views amongst at club level in polish and ukrainian teams this also is in line with manchester city mario balotelli he said that he has also witnessed racist issues in italy and across europe and he said that should he be the victim of particular chanting or abuse while he's on the pitch while he's here at the euros that he

would walk off but this is prompted you wait for president michel platini to say that this isn't an issue for the players to resolve it's an issue for the referees and they have the power to stop any matches such an issue arises and the ukrainian authorities are hoping that the football and ukrainian hospitality well outweigh any political or social issues. you can catch more news from the ukraine at our sports border and coming up shortly but first we go live to the business desk. is standing by with all the latest out of the numbers start up right now. of course we are focused on the markets as always in the morning and investors are really waiting to see what happens at the upcoming elections in greece and to see what what happened for exit the euro zone or not that in fact we've been talking to. the the man who anticipated the worldwide crisis in two thousand and eight and he said the probability of the so-called gregg's that will remain quite high the matter who wins the election. you know by now. i would say there is

a probability to greece exit the euro zone thinking about and surely even if they like not in doing the new government there is going to try to reform and on that situation becoming so unsustainable the they will exit and i would say that it could be good for them as well as bags it is all of them. and means of them there are mosques in the british nation on that actually called local store growth story ballance of who could be the banks damage the savings of people in the banks and that's why they need more funding to make sure that there is an all disorderly meltdown and the contagion that's the eurozone isn't all there so it does not make you see it that way and it's fine on sundays or believe probably. it's a manageable look on the bags. or let's take a look at some international markets will start with asia shares falling a that's after china cut its interest rate to shore up its economy see the nikkei is down almost two percent while the hang sign is down almost half of the side of the now

oil firms are suffering the most in japan and that's a long decline in oil prices and also we know that exporters have been quite well this week because of a weakening but now they're among the biggest losers all right moving on to the u.s. markets there and that mixed on thursday and this came after us federal reserve chairman ben bernanke he said that the economy is at risk from europe's debt crisis and also tighten fiscal policy that we might see and also that we know that many investors were hoping to hear about it monetary policy but it's there stimulus i should say but nothing has been announced yet is that the just the bad whereas in the last almost half a percent that moving on to russia it's two hours ahead of the opening bell here was a strong performance on the markets on thursday we see the r.t.s. gained over two percent myself stay over one and a half percent there in terms of currencies let's see what's happened over the euro dollar. when it comes to the. major

currencies the. markets are open and about. crude. in more than. eighty three dollars. ninety eight dollars per barrel and all the focus get again today. rating on the. things. that has. the international credit agency also. needs and that. of course we saw strong demand for. traders say is a good sign that. in this first hour of the trading day back to matts all right thanks very much for that coming up in

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