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 is 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 has 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 egg knowledge its commitments under the anon plan of failure ambassador churkin said that his counterparts within the security council need to take a look at the entire picture within syria opposition groups only. failed to comply to. be clear it was their intention not to do so which 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 influence on the syrian government and the armed opposition specific. 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 human observers have so far been unable to reach the site of the killings to establish what actually happened there or he's maria if an ocean reports from damascus is to warn you may find some of the images in her report disturbing. there is even more confusion about this latest bassekou 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 two peaceful problem in villages in central syria not far from the city of hama and after that allegedly prove. militants went in and they tied people on the sharks that they 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. 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. 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 easters so as you can see both sides think 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 there bashar assad is responsible for these killings and from the very beginning president assad

said beware of the able 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 three is hoping to make a rod or 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 belo 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. it's a blast from the past as this custom a uses the irish put it to pay for some every day purchases in the town of clearness olens joined the fray from the get go in two

thousand and two but crisis hit business saying is here 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 voters 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 a great scheme for the time it means all of 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 cross border from about fossils fasted on from people from their. anthem's found that once the onus of complication months women can have . that if. there's an estimated two hundred eighty five million tucked away in draws and under

a mattress is forgotten about ok to souvenir is when i joined the euro a decade ago then 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 close 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 promise is empty it's a scene that's repeated in small towns and biggest cities throughout our land 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 told us turns the whole country has suffered with starting measures with the. new water charges which are common in shortly you household charge which came in this year and will increase every year. there was

a two percent hike up to twenty three percent on 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 nor a smith party 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. says the government's policies could be partly to blame for the criminal boom. beginning of my. auntie's how did you call them is particularly strong now or because mafia has cash and 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 you know years to buy protection from a few they made to the mafia as an investor so to say capital and they may go into the black sector for getting money to get not get out or sick to do these is very troubles and it's a very important point that 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 a should 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 communal going to. in authorities maybe wrestling with luck cosa nostra in nearby greece that's wrestling in parliament that sparked a manhunt for the m.p. responsible as r t reports online he says neo nazi golden dawn party member assaults two leftwing female deputies on a live television and watched

a lively debate on our website. also online millions of user passwords from the professional linked in 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 our 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 fall in the forty seven years to accumulate his wealth and just one week to lose a third of its moment. one morning opened 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 casual 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 egypt and politicians were too busy with the revolution to take much notice. that what the body of the government did not do anything for us my animals are dying one by one and no one does anything i was lucky all egyptians say the situation has been worsened by a climate of corruption in. government employees. and

we saw for a friend gave very poor the three business and 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 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 they are very for the roof and have never afraid to speak to the city to see all corrupted state or new the people who show the fruits don't know what

sort of sides they protest by this the mean bureaucracy has never changed. 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 too they spend. a lot of money there was a lot of lose hold our taxes disappear there were a lot of corruption and with all this what 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 police here are tea. maker aguas 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 trade is increasingly go for joint ships that are too big for the existing canal but russia may not get the contract the project director says china japan and venezuela also hope to form the thirty billion dollar plan. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe the u.n. nuclear watchdog will urge iran for a deal that will allow its inspectors to visit a military complex where suspected nuclear weapons research has been done the

meeting is scheduled for later today in vienna but the islamic republic is 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 reclaim 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 the ivers 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. all of this is gone too far in this country our 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 guard not just from wiretapping of citizens phones but the the ultimate attack on our civil liberties was in this case the homeland battlefield act or otherwise known as the national defense authorization act the n.b.a.

which threatened to put him in a military prison indefinitely without benefit of trial lawyer anyone who quit would substantially supported al qaeda or quote associated forces usa today did editorial and to realize that indefinite detention is un-american and it is un-american and 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 our team sports presenter kate parkes french has more from kiev. year zero twenty twelve with 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 it's also in is in line with manchester city mario balotelli he said that he is 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. 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 was remain quite high in the matter who wins the election. i would say you know by the next theater i would say there is a probability greece exiting the euro zone thinking about and surely even if they elect

not into a new government there is going to try to reform it all mixed emotions becoming so on system of the legs and i would say that it could be good for them as all these bags are because all of them. and means of them live in moscow in the x. ray called local pride to be a better story a girl would restore its ballance of who could be the bearings the savings of people in the banks and that's why they need more funding to make sure that it isn't all dissolved and the contagion of the rest of the eurozone isn't all there so it does not make you see it that way and it's fine and sunnies all believe probably. it's a manageable look on the bags. are less likely that some international markets will start with asia shares out falling of that's after china caught its interest rates to shore up its economy we see the nikkei is down almost two percent while the hang sign is that almost half a percent there 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 a mixed on thursday and this came after us federal reserve chairman ben bernanke said that the economy is at risk from europe's debt crisis and also its heitman fiscal policy that this might see and also that we know that many investors were hoping to hear about it monetary policy but it's very stimulus i should say but nothing has been announced yet is that the dow added just the bad whereas in the last almost half a percent they're moving on to russia it's two hours ahead of the opening bell you know was a strong performance on the markets on thursday we see the ideas to present my side stay over one and a half percent now in terms of currencies let's see what's happened over the euro dollar and. dollar when it comes to the.

crude. more than. eighty three dollars. dollars. a day. has. also. needs. strong. traders say. in this first hour. thanks very much for. coming up in a few minutes with the lebanese interior minister. our top story.

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eight thirty am in moscow these iraqi headlights top u.n. officials call on the security council to pressure the syrian government while saying the armed opposition is stepping up attacks which must end this as another massacre pulls the country closer to civil war with you an observer is still unable to verify details of the atrocity. euro two thousand and twelve football tournament kicks off laden with scandal as several european governments boycott the championships they say they're concerned about poor human rights records in a race discrimination at club level in a host poland and ukraine and will not attend the games of protest. residents in a small irish town go back to their old currency to save businesses from collapse as more people fear the eurozone we heading down the drain this of a report spain will need at least forty billion euros and tele money to boost its

crisis hit banks. as greece's economic problems also deep in the specter of default and exit from the euro zone rises next us economist and politician mark weisbrot tells r t what seems to be going wrong in europe. mark weisbrot thank you for joining us on r.t. i want to start with the g. twenty promise to boost the i.m.f. lending resources with over four hundred thirty billion dollars. yet the i.m.f. steering committee said that these new resources will not be used for a particular reason do you think this is their response to their concerns that this money will be used to bailout the eurozone i think it's clear the reason they're asking for a new resources for europe they would have enough of it was for the other countries it's only europe or the big.