top u.n. officials call in the security council to pressure the syrian government while admitting doubts the armed opposition is stepping up its attacks as another massacre of pulls the country closer to civil war. a euro two thousand and twelve football tournament kicks off laden was down zero as several european governments boycott the championships and the human rights and race issues. reports just plain will need at least forty billion euros to boost its crisis banks meanwhile dirty reports from ireland and the other crippled economy some locals are going back to the past with their currency. and russian markets drop as crude prices head for the longest wigley losing streak in more than thirteen years all the details in business in twenty minutes.

eleven am in the russian capital you're watching r t i'm marina joshie had of the un along with the world bodies envoy to syria one 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 arms here's. where 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 hugh moon saying that kofi annan six point peace plan to some 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 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 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 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 egg knowledge its commitments under the anon 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. do not only fail to comply to plan but they clear that it is their intention to do so which to us 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 and vascular churkin said that's 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. now reporting there now the u.n. meeting comes in the wake of another massacre in syria was women and children among dozens of reported victims you have observers have so far been unable to reach the side of the killings to establish what actually happened. in damascus with this report 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 a solid. 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 dictator to have 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 end to terrorist operations 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 injured 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 it's just simply impossible to establish who was behind this massacre. now the syrian government is

up against an international media onslaught and a foreign funded insurgency according to political analyst. 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 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. so i have for you this hour rival route to find out which countries hope to join the garonne why 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 another day which is both the economy and health of the entire region. after coming reported by the international monetary fund is expected to show spain and needs at least forty billion euros to bolster its banking sector credit ratings agency fitch cut the country's sovereign rating saying madrid is especially vulnerable to a worsening of the eurozone debt crisis and moody's rating agency said earlier island may need a new bailout after the existing bailout program expires in twenty fourteen and in light of the euro's recent troubles residents of one irish town have revived their

own currency to help businesses ravaged by the economic downturn laura smith reports their experiment to soften the blow. it's a blast from the past as this customer uses the irish put 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 close and cash back into the community if you bring in pointed towards twenty point whatever you spend or fifty points whatever you spend we will give you a change of tone is turn vouchers which you can then go and spend cross the road and super value on the credit or go for a drink up the child and it's a great scheme for the child it means all the money remains within the tug 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 they're here oh yeah definitely a lot of people come from. it's faster on from people from the phantom zone us of a complication mountain can hash. out there's an estimated two hundred eighty five million puns tucked away in draws and under a mattress is forgotten about ok to souvenirs 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 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 a profit it's not just the whole country has suffered with starting measures with the. new water charges which are common and 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 of 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 cloners may not be alone in looking back for its future nora smith r.t. cloners and while ireland may be turning to its old currency it is turning to its old ways banks there are reluctant to lend money and some struggling businesses have no choice but to boral from the mafia economics expert alberto garvey says the

government's policies are partly to blame for the criminal boom. beginning of mafia on the economy is particularly strong now because mafia has cash and you go 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 here they made to the mafia as an investor capital they may go into the black sector for getting money they could not get out of the show banking sector this is very troublesome and it's a very important point that shoot can our government really need. to fix some of the problems that are troubling telecom in particular we need to use six a shit as to make more money available to tell you base this is more legitimate

money coming out with customers and not coming out mafia and claim that i'm going to say. while italian authorities may be wrestling with. nearby greece it's wrestling and parliament that sparked a man who runs for the m.p. responsible as r g reports on why greece golden dawn party member sold to left wing female deputies on live t.v. i can watch the debate on our website r.t. dot com. also online millions of users passwords for the professional going down website were posted online revealing a level of desperation among people seeking jobs the details are to dot com. the euro twenty twelfth bowl championships are finally here millions of fans are

descending upon poland and ukraine hoping their team will net the silverware but the term is already proving controversial with government boycotts from several european countries threatening to spoil the beautiful game our two sports presenter kate partridge is in ukraine for us. 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 well 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. while we are covering all the latest news from poland and ukraine on this special day for football fans in our sports boards and remodel over to you that's right marina less than twelve hours remain until the national team of russia kicks off a very euro twenty two of campaign in poland they're going to cause many will be hoping to improve on their bronze medal results of the previous european championship now that's all in sports a little later on. to other news now here on r.t.e.

the nicaraguan government's planning to build a thirty billion dollar trade route to rival the panama canal and several countries including russia are vying for the chance to fund the plan bushell has more. you know it's a. trade between the atlantic and pacific oceans ever since it opened the panama canal but no real show plans to build a deeper void to rival through. that's britain's the hugely profitable existing routes as traders increasingly go for joined 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 form the thirty billion dollars. well it's now take a look at some of the stories from around the world the u.n. nuclear watchdog to urge iran 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 however of these lawmakers public is not expected to make any statements before broader talks at the end of next week in moscow a number of western powers fear iran's been attempting to create nuclear arms iran maintains its program was set up for peaceful purposes. dozens have been killed after government troops clashed with al qaeda fighters in yemen the militants were fought off by armed civilians and soldiers after storming a town north of jar the battle left at least twenty dead three others were killed when warplanes bombed a vehicle now believed to belong to the forces yemeni troops are attempting to reclaim towns seized by militants last year during the uprising against former president saleh. the u.n. human rights chief says u.s. drone attacks in pakistan are quote legally problematic and may not comply with international law now replies in jest of the pakistani government invite the un to

investigate some of the strikes america says it will continue the attacks despite calls from pakistan to have them tensions between the two countries rose last year when missiles killed twenty four pakistani soldiers prompting islamic bot to blog nato supply routes to. political parties in egypt have agreed on how to select the panel that will write the country's new constitution after a push from the ruling military council the previous power was dissolved after secular and liberal members organized a walkout complaining that islam is dominated the assembly preparations for the new constitution come as egyptians get ready 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 hosni mubarak's last prime minister. reports egyptians are tangled in a political web to the point where they are failing to spot

a growing danger threatening not only the economy but also their health. it took this far the 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 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 to cater to catastrophe and mourned the epidemic could threaten human food supplies far and wide but egypt and politicians were too busy with the revolution to take much notice for the work done by the government did not do anything for us all 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 are on both and so corruption gives very poor beast me 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 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 like the more people are waiting to hear if they can trust him a lot. but they might be waiting a while after very for the roof and this has never affected the speed to this day to see all who are up the street or near the people who show difference the

don't know what it is worth to flails they protest by the state i 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 the right. the previous regimes. said that perhaps they thought security. is the most important issue for them so they spend. a lot of money there was a lot of those were our taxes disappear there were growth of corruption we don't do this work is there for there for 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. 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 it 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 the judge initially ruled the act was to chanel last month but the obama administration asked her to reconsider the ruling attorney karl mayer says the act threatens americans basic freedoms. but all of this is going too far in this country where civil liberties are increasingly under attack not just from drones that are being sent there were 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.d.a. which threatened to put it in a military prison indefinitely without benefit of trial lawyer anyone who quote substantially supported al qaeda or quote associated forces u.s.a. today did editorial and a tour realized 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 or to stand for. and strange in the world of business and him reigning cossar is got all the latest for us what's happening at this hour well maria has turned out to be a sea of red all it takes

a couple of negative comments from the u.s. and then that's how it says a second look at the latest figures from europe where that's had a session just kicked off and as you're about to see both the footsie and that's a post in the law says the fund sees those in a half a percent voluntarily that is already of old one my cents in there and then this is all coming from negative statements made by u.s. federal reserve chairman ben bernanke i'll talk about that a little bit later and also of course the latest news from spain now we have a more on that basically what happened there and is that fed has caught that continent's a rating and this means and things that the economy's ability to pay back that has a weekend fencer national climate agency also has the lengths that the country needs an extra sixty billion euros to stop. it's banks and on thursday we saw strong demand for spanish falls which some traders say is a good sign that the country can arrange the front. paws saw it from spain investors are also concerned about greece especially now with the upcoming parliamentary elections coming up there and first of all they're all concerned

whether greece will exit the eurozone or not but we spoke to nouriel roubini don't forget this is the man who predicted the worldwide crisis of two thousand and eight and he says the probability of a group called gregg's that has everyone's call in there right now it still remains quite high and will remain high no matter what the outcome of the elections will be i would say that you know by next year and i would say there is at least the probability that greece exit the euro zone thinking about it really even now into a new government is going to try to get a form and on expression becoming so unsustainable that they will exit and i would say that it could be good good for them as a long bag because all of them. and means of them there are massive appreciation on barack's very common type of a better story abroad restore its balance of course will be damaged the banks damage their savings the people in the banks and that's why they need more bank to make sure that it's not these overly meltdown and the contagion that's the eurozone

is the mega see it that way and it's finance and it's orderly probably it's a it's a manageable look at the bags. well let's continue with international markets and take a look at how russia is performing as you can see it's tracking the losses overseas setting over two percent and then my six of one percent and the main reason for this is the fact that oil prices are heading south there's always has a major effect on investors and the markets naturally moving on to asia and it's in the final hours of trade in my analysis that the nikkei is down over two percent of the hang side point eight seven percent and besides the fact that investors are concerned about everything that's happening in the euro zone as well as the u.s. we also know that china caught its interest rates and that's to shore up its economy investors once taken that very well when it comes to japan exploration have been doing particularly well this week because of the weakening yen are now among the biggest losers because there's also the market reports showing trade deficit

and that was staying with japan we know that its economy to form slightly better than estimated earlier on in the first quarter so that's a little bit of a sigh of relief right there new figures suggest that japan's annual growth is now four point seven percent since that of four point one as it was reported in may and the upgrade is reflecting higher private consumption and state spending and that's after the country was hit by a devastating tsunami last year. second look at how the session and that in the u.s. on thursday we can see it was a mixed picture out there the dow added just a notch while the nasdaq dropped almost half a percent and this came after comments made by u.s. federal reserve chairman ben bernanke and he said that the economy is at risk from the eurozone debt crisis and at the prospects of the school tightening many investors were expecting to hear about the announcement of additional stimulus. that didn't happen so a lot of people were disappointed because of that now let's move on and take

a look at currencies and see how the euro dollar moved off to form in the u.s. to lose in against the dollar when it comes to the ruble this time it's losing against both major currencies and as the spied olivia for its own. of the of russia's central bank to strengthen it because we do know that in the month of may it should fortune for size all of its value and finally let's take a look at a crude prices which are causing a lot of what we're seeing today they are heading south in fact they're heading for their longest weekly losing streak in more than thirteen years and that some of the boys all of a slowing growth of the economy all they knew was as well as china and this wraps it up for this hour in this edition of business for now back to you marina absolutely maria thanks very much indeed as always energy special interview and sports coming your way and for that i'll bring you the headlines stay with us.