point to a breaking point joint special envoy for the u.n. arab league mr kofi annan also 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 board or 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's 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 groups including the free syrian army which just last week announced that it will no longer eg knowledge its commitments under the anon plan deeming it a failure ambassador churkin said that his counterparts in the security council need to take a look at the entire picture within syria opposition groups only. only failed to comply to. clear the it was their intention not to do so which is a very dangerous development of it go into a 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 specifically saudi arabia qatar and iran ambassador 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. reporting there now the u.n. meeting comes in the wake of another massacre in syria was women and children among the dozens of reported victims u.n. observers have so far been unable to reach the side of the killings to stablish what actually happened. in damascus with this report and you may find some of the images disturbing. there is even more confusion about this latest massacre here in syria than all 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. 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 degrade or to have died yesterday raising many questions on their own ability 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 end to terrorist operations so after that call they immediately launched this operation and we are receiving right now crucial. 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 both sides think there is a trial there and while witnesses reports just contradict each other about who was responsible and without credible investigation right now it's just simply impossible to establish who was behind this massacre. i was here and government is up against an international media onslaught and a foreign funded insurgency according to political analysts. 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 table 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 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 west from power. well still had for this hour here in our rival route find out which countries hope to join the building of a new coast to coast waterway which threatens to rival the panama canal.

also from bad to worse egyptians currently mired in political turmoil face and other danger which threatens both the economy and health of the entire region. and coming to report by the international monetary fund is 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 wondred was especially vulnerable to a worsening of the eurozone debt crisis moody's rating agency said earlier island may need a new bailout after the existing bailout program expires in two thousand and fourteen and a lot of the euro's recent troubles residents of one irish have revived their old currency to help businesses ravaged by the economic downturn and as artie's laura smith reports their experiment soften the blow. it's a blast from the past as this customer uses the irish punt to pay for some every

day purchases in the town of clueless 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 clore some cash back into the community if you bring in. fifty. years which you can spend. on the. drink of the town it. means all the money. 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. often stopping by for a haircut while they're here. a lot of people come from from. iran from people from .

there's an estimated two hundred eighty five million tucked away in drawers and under mattresses 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 close the per 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 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. if it is it's not just one of the towns the whole country has suffered with

the stars he measures with the. new water charges which are common and shortly you household charge which which came in this year when 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 so keep it 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 and you can back for its norris myth plainest and. while ireland may be turning to its old currency italy is turning to it's always banks there are reluctant to lend money and some struggling businesses have no choice but to borrow from the mafia economics expert all berridale mcgarty says the government's policies are partly to blame for the criminal boom beginning of march . only shot here because omar is particularly strong now or because mafia has cash

and you've got plenty of small businesses particularly in the south and in the center of the country without running short of cash and have some kind of relationship with mafia because they worked for many years to buy protection. from up to the major to mafia as an investment capital and they may go into the black sector for getting money they could not get out of the show the banking sector is very troublesome and it's a very important point that should carry our government really need. to fix some of the problems that are troubling in telecom in particular do we need to use fixation there's still a bit more money available to tell you this is more legitimate money coming out of questionnaires and not coming out mile a minute i'm going to say. ortiz may be wrestling with. in nearby agree it's wrestling and parliament that sparked the manhunt for the amp responsible for such

reports online. agrees is the announcer golden dawn party member who assaults two left wing female deputies on live t.v. watch the debate on our website. also online millions of years of passwords for the professional linked in website were posted online revealing a level of desperation among people seeking jobs the details on r.t. dot com. they are twenty b.n. ships are finally here and millions of fans are descending upon poland and ukraine hoping their team will net the civil ware but the term is already proving conversational with government boycotts from several european countries threatening

to spoil the beautiful game sports presenter cape ard which is in ukraine for us. euro 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 a 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 a partridge reporting there or the nicaraguan government's planning to build a thirty billion dollar trade routes that arrive all the panic now and several countries including russia are vying for the chance to fund the plan r t s n l bushel has more. united states is the law and share of trade between we have learned of pacific oceans ever since it opened the panama canal but no real show plans to build a deeper void a rival through. that's britain's the hugely profitable existing route as traders 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

have to form the thirty billion dollars. time for some other international news in brief the u.n. nuclear watchdog urges for a deal that would allow its inspectors to visit a military complex where its suspected nuclear weapons research has taken place the meeting is scheduled for later today in vienna however the islamic republic is not expected to make any major statements before talks at the end of next week in moscow a number of western powers fear iran has been attempting to create nuclear arms. program was set up for peaceful purposes. have been killed after government troops clash with. the militants were fought by armed civilians and soldiers after storming a town north of jaar the battle left at least twenty dead and three others were killed when warplanes bombed a vehicle in the south believed. forces yemeni troops are attempting to reclaim town seized by militants last year during the uprising against former president salih. the u.n. human rights chief says u.s.

drone attacks in pakistan are quote legally problematic and not comply with international law and suggested the pakistani government invite the un to investigate some of the strikes americans as it will continue the attacks despite calls from pakistan to end the tensions between the two countries rose last year when missiles killed twenty four pakistani soldiers prompting to block nato supply routes to afghanistan. political parties in ajab have agreed on how to select the palau will dry 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 that islamist dominated the assembly preparations for the new constitution come as egyptians for fear to head to the polls for the upcoming highly contested election runoff which is scheduled to take place at the end of next week voters will have to choose between muslim brotherhood candidate mohamed morsi and last prime minister. policy or no. reports egyptians are going to hang

out at a political web to the point where the earth failing to spot a growing danger of threatening not only the economy but also their health. it took this father forty seven years to accumulate his wealth and just one week to lose a third of it. 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 to cater to catastrophe and warned the epidemic could threaten human food supplies far and wide but he gyptian politicians were too busy with the revolution to take much notice that the government did not do anything for us all animals are dying one by one and no one

does anything. egyptians say the situation has been worsened by a climate of corruption all government employees are. under so corruption is very cold these mean business and need 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 rocket him people got afraid and stopped buying meat choosing instead to eat chicken and fish this pushed the price of poultry up by more than just the same 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 more people are waiting to hear if they can trust them a lot. but they might be waiting a while after very formal and this has never affected the speed to

see all. the only the people who saw difference the don't want to hear sort of sightings they protest by the state that mean we have 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. previous regimes. said that perhaps the security the security the most important issue for them so they spend. a lot of money on there was a local. taxes disappear there was a lot of corruption and we don't do this work is there for. improvement au-prince

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. a federal judge in the u.s. has ruled washington cannot indefinitely detain american suspected of having terrorist ties unless they have been found in connection with the september eleventh attacks comes just six months after president obama signed the national defense authorization act which would have allowed american citizens to be held without trial or charge a judge ruled the act was unconstitutional last month but the obama administration asked her to reconsider the ruling attorney karl mayer says the actor and americans basic freedoms. 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 or now or 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 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 quote substantially supported al qaeda or quote associated forces usa today did editorial editorialized that indefinite detention is un-american and it is not a mere game 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 or to stand for. while straight to the world business now marina hi there what's happening there are markets are now

open and investors here i know i'm feeling a very well and that's because of the client oil prices and i'll get to that in just a second but first let's talk about greece of course everyone is concerned what will happen after the parliamentary elections that are coming up that some people are the scots and whether greece will exit the euro zone are no laws but we've been talking scenario of her being there he's the man who predicts that the world like crisis by can see thousand and he says the problem bennett see of the so-called gregson will remain quite high no matter what the results of the election will be. i would say that you know by the next the i would say that is at least the probability that greece exit the euro zone thinking about actually going to like not into a new government is going to try to go to form their own expression becoming so unsustainable that they will exit and i would say that it could be good for them as all these bags it does all of them. and means of them there are mosques in the kurdish nation on that x. ray called local pride to be

a better store growth story ballance of course they'll be damaged the banks damage the savings of people in the banks and that's why they need more funding to make sure that it's not does overly meltdown and the contagion that's the eurozone is milder so it does not make you see it that way and it's fine and sunnies orderly probably. it's a manageable look on the bags. or less from some international markets will start with russia which kicked off its trading session this hour a great performance by the markets on thursday that was on stronger crude and gains overseas and so they all of that has been the raise you can see the r.t.s. the shouting over two percent while the my sex is dropping over that some of the reasons for that we have decline in oil prices now i'll talk about that a little bit later and right now it's the early let's let us action to speculate on water as if i think investors let's move on to h.l. it's been trading for a couple of hours now and basically it's a sea of red there as well make a shot in almost two and a half percent all the hang signs are setting over a half

a percent and all of this is coming after china has decreased its interest rates to shore up its economy with all that and pad and as you firms are doing particularly well also because of the decline in oil prices and also exports which haven't done quite well in the past week are not doing great either and that's because of a pre-market with poor showing a trade deficit now staying with japan we know that its economy perform better than estimated earlier in the first quarter and by the figures suggest that japan's growth is now four point seven percent and settle for. point one and that was reported back in may. this reflected high of private consumption and state spending and that was after the country was hit by a devastating tsunami last year. you can sit in on with us the markets are closed so we're seeing the performance on thursday it was a mixed session as you can see the dow and the just all shy away as the last at last almost a half a percent and the pessimism very came after u.s. federal reserve chairman ben bernanke he said that the economy is not in the to the

of fags following europe's debt crisis and because all of the. tightening there but mainly investors are war expectancy here about further monetary stimulus but that was announced yet so bad there really help boost investor confidence then moving on to crude as i said prices there are going south once again we're looking at currencies right now so i would currencies. against the dollar would consider with that and then we have updated figures when it comes to the ruble and that's the losing against both major currencies we know that the central bank has been putting a lot of efforts and strength in the ruble and it has worked for a couple of days but today we saw in that all go south once again right now let's look at crude prices if we may go we see that light sweet as on friday at eighty three dollars twenty nine cents per barrel when it comes to the slowly approaching ninety nine dollars per barrel and then five crude heading for its longest weekly news in st in more than thirteen years so this is of course helping investors

especially russia wants super size and all this is coming from investors being concerned about the slowing economic growth in china as well as the u.s. now it's all the stories we have spain will focus in on again and that's because fridge has cut its rate in which means if things that the economy's ability to pay back that has now weakened international credit agency also isolate the country needs and the extra sixty billion euros to shore up its banks but on first. it was so strong as false was traders say is the good side of the contract catalyze the fog's. partnering us what i have for you this hour sounds great as always maria thanks very much and look forward to more news next hour right here on our team play more coming your way including a fire to cross stock but before that i'll bring the headlines stay with us.

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to. make your statement. spread the word. to plug in street. culture is that so much was saying to me is going to make it a lot of people are you going to look at lunchtime pretty early with the greek economy in tatters and spain on the financial train their future of the monetary union looks anything but bright. news today violence flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations rule the day.

welcome back to our with a reminder of the top stories officials call in the security council to pressure the syrian government while saying you are in the opposition is stepping up its attacks which must end this as another massacre pulls the country closer to civil war with u.n. observers still unable to verify the details of the atrocity. residents in a small irish town go back to their old currency to save businesses from collapse as more people fear the euro is only happening down the drain that's amid reports spain will need at least forty billion euros in bailout money to boost its crisis hit banks. for euro two thousand and twelve full time month kicks off laden with scowls several european governments boycott the championships they say they are concerned about poor human rights records race discrimination at club level in

poland and the ukraine. and the games in protest. as we have lines here actually back on top of the hour with more news updates for you the meantime though peter and his guest discuss the future for european monetary union as greece and spain sink deeper into the debt crisis stay tuned for crosstalk. oh and welcome to cross talk computable about crunch time for the euro with the greek economy in tatters and spain on.