u.s. officials call on the security council to pressure of a syrian government while admitting the armed opposition is stepping up its attacks as another massacre pulls the country closer to civil war. reports suggest spain will need at least forty billion euros to boost its crisis hit banks well as our team reports from ireland another crippled country some locals are going back to their past with the currency of lead euro two thousand and twelve football tournament kicks off laden with scandal as several european governments boycott the championships amid human rights and the race issue.

nine am in moscow i match reza good to have you with us here on r t our top story the u.n. secretary general 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 artie's marina porton has more. 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 says 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 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 also admitted that there has been a few indications of complying 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 acknowledge its commitments under the anon plan of failure ambassador churkin said that his counterparts in. 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 go off and on 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 moscow would be willing to schedule it as soon as all parties announce a commitment the un meeting comes in the wake of another massacre in syria with women and children among dozens of reported victims you want observers have so far been unable to reach the site of the killings to establish what actually happened there or does marie if you know she now has more 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

a 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 pieces whole 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 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 i died yesterday raising many questions on the credibility 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 the 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 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 as you can see. the thing there is a child there while witnesses reports just contradict each other about who was responsible and credible investigation right now is to go to just simply impossible to establish who was behind this massacre political analyst adrian so bucci says the syrian government is up against an international media onslaught on a foreign funded insurgency. these are the western media who are saying that bashar

assad is responsible for these killings and from the very beginning president assad said the winner of the cable global cable networks because they are spreading blades and lobbies 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 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 and so you'd survive 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. stay with us here on r t still ahead this hour arrival route find out which is hope and join the barrage in the building of a new coast to coast waterway that could rival the panama canal.

and from bad orissa gyptian is apparently mired in political turmoil now face another danger threatening both the economy and the health of the whole region. but first the upcoming report by the international monetary fund expected to show spain needs at least forty billion euros to bolster its banking sector credit ratings agency fitch cut the country's sovereign rating saying madrid was especially vulnerable to the worsening of the eurozone debt crisis moody's rating agency said earlier ireland may need a new bailout after the existing belo program expires in two thousand and fourteen despite the troubles residents of one irish town have already revive their old currency to help businesses ravaged by the downturn as artie's laura smith reports . it's a blast from the past as this customer uses the irish punt to pay for some everyday purchases in the town of closeness arlen's joined the euro from the get go in two

thousand and two but crisis hit business owners here have revived their old currency to try and desperately claw some cash back into the community if you bring in pointed to was twenty point whatever you spend or fifty point whatever you spend we will give you a change of tone as tone voters which you can then go and spend crossroads super value on the create note or go for a drink up the town it's a great scheme for the child 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 their puts often stopping by for a haircut while they're here oh yeah a lot of people come from from about fast especially around from people from the phantoms from the functions on us as a complication month women can have got him in the front to spit out there's an estimated two hundred eighty five million puns tucked away in draws and under

mattresses forgotten about ok to souvenirs when arlen 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 close the permit scheme has undoubtedly boosted the local economy but the ravages of the economic crash are still all too evident 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 bigger 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 letter. no you turn a profit it's not just tone of the town it's the whole concious offered with the stars he measures with the. new water charges were common in short the new

household charge which which came in this year with increase every year. there was a two percent hike up to twenty three percent in the pike to sales tax which we have to do something something to improve the situation so keep it 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 clueless may not be alone in you looking back for it speech nor a smith. and. while ireland may be turning to its old currency italy could be turning to its old ways banks they're reluctant to lend money and some struggling businesses have no choice but to borrow from the mafia economics expert alberto mingora he says the government's policies could be partly to blame for the criminal bill beginning of march. on the economy is particularly strong now or because my cash when you go clinton small businesses particularly in

the south and in the center of the country together running short of cash and have some kind of relationship market because they were poor statement you know yours to buy protection from obviously you majored mafia as an investor so who save your 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 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 reduce taxation there's still a bit more money available to judge in business is more legitimate money coming out of customers and not coming out of mafia and going to going to say. well italian authorities may be wrestling with locos or no strain nearby greece it's wrestling in parliament that sparked a manhunt for the m.p. responsible as are two reports online greece's neo nazi golden dawn party member

assaults two leftwing female deputies on live t.v. watch their debate on our website plus. millions of user passwords for the linked in professional web site posted online revealing a level of desperation among people seeking jobs all the details at our team dot com. egyptian political parties have agreed on how to select a panel that alright 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 gyptian is ready to head to the polls for the upcoming hotly contested election

runoff scheduled to happen at the end of next week voters will choose between the muslim brotherhood candidate mohammed mercy and housing mubarak's last prime minister ahmed shah feet tall asli reports egyptians are tangled in a political web to the point where they're failing to spot a growing danger not only threatening the economy but also their health. it took this fall in the forty seven years to accumulate wealth and just one week to lose a third of its own that you have. 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 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 our 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 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 rate 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 good. things keep getting worse no one's buying from me and i'm more people are waiting to hear if they can

trust them a lot. but they might be waiting a while if there are very for the roof and this has never afraid to speak to this day to see all corrupted state or only the people who show difference he don't want any sort of sales as a 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. said that perhaps the security the regime security the paramount most important issue for them so they spent. a lot of money on there was a lot of news holes were taxes disappear there were

a lot of corruption and with all this what is left for actually improvement of service is. minor 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 governments planning 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 project daniel bushell reports. you know it's it's the law and ship of trade between the atlantic and pacific oceans ever since it opened the pummel canal but no real show plans to build a deeper void to rival through the bring. that threatens the hugely profitable existing routes as traders increasingly go for julian ships that are too big for the existing canal but may not get the contract the project director says china

japan and venezuela also have to phone the thirty billion dollars plan turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe he went nuclear watchdog will urge iran for a deal that could allow its inspectors to visit a military complex where it suspected nuclear weapons research was done and the meeting scheduled for later today in vienna but the islamic republic isn't expected to make any major statements before broader talks at the end of next week in moscow a number of western countries fear iran has been trying to create nuclear weapons tehran maintains its program is set up for peaceful purposes. dozens have been killed after government troops clash with al qaeda fighters in yemen the militants were fought off by armed civilians and soldiers after storming a town north of jaar the battle left at least twenty dead three others killed warplanes bombed a vehicle in the south believe there was a lot of forces yemeni troops are trying to reclaim towns seized by militants last year during the uprising against former president saleh. at least sixteen

students were killed and thirty two others injured after their bus plunged into or venier the bolivian capital the students all between the ages of sixteen and eighteen were en route to the pause for a sporting event survivor say the accident happened when the bus driver let another bus pass on a narrow road police still combing through the wreckage and say the death toll could rise. a federal judge in the u.s. has ruled washington can't indefinitely detain american suspected having ties to terrorism unless they've been found in connection with the september eleventh attacks this comes six months after president obama signed the national defense authorization act that would have allowed u.s. citizens held without trial or charge the judge ruled the act was on the unconstitutional last month but the administration asked her to reconsider the ruling attorney karl meyer says the actor ends at the u.s. basic freedoms. 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 home and 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 quite substantially supported alqaeda were quote associated forces usa today to an 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 finally here millions of the fans ascending upon poland and ukraine hoping their team will net the sofa where but the tournaments already proving controversial with government boycotts from several european countries threatening to spoil the games artie's partridge has more from kiev. euro 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 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. more on the games in ukraine or sports later in the day but first time for the business news. so what do you have in store for us this hour. was not only the euro that our us discussing right now it's also the so-called gregg's as fears of greece were exit the euro zone especially after the parliamentary elections there and we spokes in the area really in fact these the man who predict that the worldwide crisis in two thousand and eight and he says

that the possibility of greece exiting the region is really high and will remain so even the matter what the outcome of the elections will be. i would say you know by now. i would say there is a probability to greece exit the euro zone thinking about it surely even if they like not into a new government is going to try to reform it all mixes actually becoming so unsustainable that they will legs and i would say that it could be good for them as well as bags it is all of them. and means of the amounts of the x. ray called local store growth. ballance of course will 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 of the rest of the eurozone is milder so it does not make you see it that way and it's fine on sundays or delete probably. it's a monitor book on the bags. or let's take

a look at some international markets right now we'll start with asia which is the only one trading at this hour we can see that it's a sea of red that in that case listen over two percent of all the hindsight is news and point four percent this hour and all this is coming after trying to cut its interest rates to shore up its economy and also it's a reaction to negative statements coming out from the u.s. we'll have more on that in just a second now in japan exports have been doing particularly well this week and this time they're not doing that well and that's because of a pre-market report showing a trade deficit also we know i haven't said that japan's economy performed better than it had previously in the first quarter and fagged figures show that the annual growth is out four point seven percent and the recovery driven by government spending and domestic spending and now let's move on to the u.s. which the markets are of course closed and they're seen a performance from thursday the end of the session mixed the dow added just. almost

a half a percent there and all of this came after u.s. federal reserve chairman ben bernanke he said that the economy will have an effect . feel the effect of the european crisis and the school tightening the prospects of that happening bastards that will really waiting to hear about and there's no monetary stimulus but nothing like that was announced to russia it's now an hour ahead of the trading session here we can see that on thursday the market particularly well we saw a strong performance. two percent in the black whereas the mindsets added over one and a half percent in general but a strong performance this week former russian markets and we'll have the updated figures of course when they open it's a half an hour from now now in currencies the euro let's take a look at what's happening there it's the museum when it comes to the dollar and then to the ruble those are the figures from thursday again against both major currencies and of course we have at the central bank has been put in a lot of effort to make sure that it's strengthens after. forty percent of its

value of crude which also has a major factor on the russian economy yesterday we saw crude prices going up which helped there are some markets and today we see that it's back down lights where it's trading at eighty three dollars and twenty nine cents per barrel the price of blood is that ninety eight dollars and seventy four cents per barrel and back this is now the loneliness weekly losing streak in more than thirty three years and this of course has to do with fears over the economies in china and the u.s. slowing down which could curb fuel demand all right now and other news that we're focusing on spain yet again today and that's because fitch has cut its rating and this means that things that the economy's ability to pay back that has weakened the international credit agency also estimates the country needs sixty billion euros to shore up its banks and of course on thursday we saw strong demand for spanish bonds which try to say is a good sign that the country can raise the funds. horrible we have the russian

market so another day coming up and something new that's all right thanks very much for that update marina. well remember you can watch our special report which spotlights the survivors of nuclear bombings but first the headlines stick with us . all.

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