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 and now it's

that it will no longer eg knowledge its commitments under the anon plan deeming it a 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. clear the it was their intention not to do so which is a very dangerous development of it going to 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 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. more important reporting from new york the u.n. meeting comes in the wake of another massacre in syria was women and children among the dozens of reported victims you want to have so far been unable to reach the side of the killings to establish what actually happened. is in damascus with this report with find some of the images disturbing. there is even more confusion about this latest massacre here in syria than all of the previous ones and a lot of the details of alleged witness accounts and video just don't match so far the most extreme death toll. stands at almost one hundred and this is the figure that's been picked up very quickly by most of the international media immediately after it emerged now the opposition's claim is that government forces

shelled 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 how well these videos contain it is that by all appearances to degrade or to have died yesterday raising many questions on the military and the truth of their positions claims and just where these bodies came from on the other hand the syrian government has a completely different take on what happened. in syria they say they got a call from a local resident asking for help after militants took over the village the army has been stationed in this area they've been reporting beforehand that they are

preparing for an anti-terrorist operation so after that call they immediately launched this operation and we are receiving right now official. reports from official sources in hama that after the army went in they discovered nine bodies of civilians and following the clashes that occurred after that two officers have been killed and five others have been injured so as you can see both sides think there is a child there while witnesses reports just contradict each other about who was responsible and credible had been. to gauge right now is to go out and just simply impossible to establish who was behind this massacre. they have a national reporting there now the syrian government is up against an international media onslaught and foreign funded insurgency according to political analysts and council bootie 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 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 or 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. i still have for this hour a rival route to find out which countries hope when to grovel and the building of a new coast to coast waterway which threatens to rival the panama canal.

also bomb bad to worse egyptians currently mired in political turmoil face another danger which threatens both economy and health of the entire region. coming reported by the international monetary fund is expected to show spain needs at least forty billion euros to bolster its banking sector credit ratings agencies fitch the country's sovereign reigning saying with dread 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 program expires in two thousand and fourteen and in the light of the euro's recent troubles residents of one irish town have revived dear old currency to help businesses ravaged by the economic downturn as artie's laura smith reports their experiments soften the blow. it's a blast from the past as this customer uses the irish put to pay for some everyday purchases in the town of clueless ireland 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 cruellest some cash back into the community if you bring in pointed to was twenty point whatever you spend or fifty pounds whatever you spend we would give you the change of tone is turn voters which you can then go and spend cross the road in super value on the create note or go for a drink coppertone it's it's a great scheme for the child it means all the money remains within the tug as but 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. cross border from fast especially our own from people from the phantoms down the functions on us have a complication mountain in. the. hope there's an estimated two

hundred eighty five million pounds tucked away in draws and under much mrs forgotten about ok to souvenirs when i joined the euro a decade ago they're no longer legal tender but would have a value of around two hundred forty million euros just a fraction of which would make a massive difference in crisis hit closeness the permit scheme has undoubtedly boosted the local economy but the ravages of the economic crash is still all too evident the main street is lined with boarded up shops with around fifty percent of practice is 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 let alone turn a profit it's not just told us times the whole country has suffered with starting measures with the. new water charges which are common in shortly you household

charge which which came in this year will increase every year. there was a two percent hike up to twenty three percent in the point of sale tax which we have to do something something to improve the situation shopkeepers say going back to the point isn't a political statement it's a survival tactic and as the face of the euro hangs in the balance clueless may not be alone in looking back for its future nor a smith r.t. closest island. while and maybe turning to it's all currency italy is turning to its old ways banks there are reluctant to lend money and to some struggling businesses have no choice but to borrow from the mafia economics expert says the government's policies are partly to blame for the criminal boom beginning of march . on the economy is particularly strong now or because my cash when you go clinton was small businesses particularly in the south and in the

center of the country to the granting of cash and have some kind of relationship with market because they work for a statement you know years to buy protection from a few of the major. investors that would say capital and they may go into the black sector for getting money they could not get out or if you show banking sector you choose this is very troubles and it's a very important offering that should tell our government that we need. to fix some of the problems that are troubling details in the commune particularly we need to reduce taxation there's still a bit more money available to tell him because this is more legitimate money coming out of cash and not coming out of mafia and claim you're not going to say. while italian authorities may be wrestling with cause an austere in nearby greece it's wrestling in parliament that sparked a manhunt for the m.p. responsible as reports online. greece's neo nazi golden dawn party member assaults

two left wing female deputies on live t.v. and you could watch the debate on our website. also online millions of user passwords for the professional link dan a website or a posted online revealing the level of desperation among people seeking jobs the details are available. well you are twenty championships are finally here millions of fans are descending upon poland and ukraine hoping their team will net the silverware but the tournament is already proving controversial with government boycotts from several european countries threatening to spoil the beautiful game are you sports presenter kate part which is in ukraine for us. 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 a match to 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. gay parties aborning there while we are covering all the latest news from poland and ukraine on a special day for vocal fans in our sports balls and. now the nicaraguan government planning to build a thirty five billion dollar trade routes to rival the panama canal and several countries including russia vying for the chance to fund the flambe artie's daniel bushell has more. united states has had the lawrence share of trade between the atlantico and pacific oceans ever since it opened the panama canal but now russia plans to build a deeper wider rival through neighboring nicaragua that threatens 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 hope to fund the thirty billion dollar plan. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world. the u.n. nuclear watchdog is the urgent rod for a deal that would allow its inspectors to visit a military complex where it's 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 broader talks at the end of next week in moscow a number of western powers fear iran's been attempting to create nuclear arms tehran maintains its program was set up for peaceful purposes. dozens have been killed after government troops clashed with al qaida fires in yemen the militants were far off by armed civilians and soldiers after storming a talent north of jaar the battle left at least twenty dad and three others were

killed more planes bombed a vehicle in the south believed to belong to a kind of forces yemeni troops are attempting to reclaim town seized by militants last year during the uprising against former president salih. and human rights chief says u.s. drone attacks in pakistan are quote legally problematic and may not comply with international law now that the way suggested the pakistani government invite the un to investigate some of the strikes america says it will continue the attacks despite calls from pakistan to and them tensions between the two countries rose last year but it is twenty four pakistani soldiers prompting islamic law nato supply routes to have gathered steam. political parties in egypt have agreed on how to select the panel that will write the country's new constitution after a push from their ruling military council the previous panel was dissolved after secular and liberal members organized

a walkout complained that islamist dominated the a sample preparations for the new constitution come as gyptian to get ready to head to the polls for the upcoming highly contested election runoff which is scheduled. take place at the end of next week voters will have to choose between muslim brotherhood candidate mohamed morsi and also remarks masked by minister ahmed shafik policy 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 for your health. it took this farming forty seven years to accumulate his wealth and just one week to lose a third of it robert. 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 depleted

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 for the 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 use low cost egypt should say the situation has been worsened by a climate of corruption. in government employees. and the so corrupt from these very poor beast me with this thing 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 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 this has never affected the speed to this day to see all corrupted state or new the people who show difference don't know what it is or the failings of a protest by 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 seeing. it said that perhaps the security

security is the most important issue for them to they spend. a lot of money on it there was a local news holdsworth taxes disappear there were a lot of corruption and it was all of this sort is left for very actually improvement au-prince services was 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. 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 acts was unconstitutional

last month but the obama administration asked her to reconsider the ruling attorney carl mayer sas the act threatened americans 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 or now or paramilitary guard not just from wiretapping of citizens close 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 directed to who is in a military prison indefinitely without benefit a trial lawyer or anyone who quits substantially supported al qaeda or quote associated forces usa today did editorial editorialized 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. causing to the world of business mary as they're waiting so sounds like there's it's not a good day for the markets from what i understand. right now basically we're seeing a sea of red across the board then as because of a mixture of data first of all would then get many positive news from the u.s. a lot of investors were hope and see more monetary easing happen in their stimulus i should say that was announced that really disappointed many of them let's take a look at the latest figures coming out from the europe and if was seen that we got the front season isn't almost up or signs father john that's is now over one percent in the lead and another factor that didn't sit with investors very well as spain and what we know as outfits has caught the conscience of rating and this

means that the agency finds the country's economy and that's the bennetts it's a pay back that week international credit agency also estimates that the country needs a. still sixty billion euros to shore up its banks and of course on thursday we saw a very strong demand for stylish bonds which traders say is a good sign that the country can write spots. also for those concerned about greece and its possible exit from the euro zone we've been talking to a professor in the real roubini and he of course predicted the two thousand and eight financial crisis that we saw around the world and he says that the probability of a so-called gregg's it remains quite high and will do so even no matter what the outcome will be of the parliamentary elections there. i would say you know by now. i would say there is a probability that greece exit the euro zone thinking about it surely even if they like not into a new government there is going to try to reform and on expression becoming so

system of the day and i would say that it could be good for them as well as bags it is all of the. means of their amounts of the tax recalled restore growth restore external ballance of course will be damaged the banks damage the savings of people in the banks and that's why they need more funding to make sure that there is an all disorderly meltdown and the contagion that's the eurozone is milder so it does not make you see it that way and it's fine so these orderly probably it's a monitor boy look on the bags. and you can watch the full interview with professor being the on monday here on c.n.n. for now let's move on with international markets and see what's happening here in russia as c.e.o. right here as well artsy as profit over two and a half percent and the i said stropping almost one of the it's taking the beat and basically and this is mainly the result of lower food prices always having a major effect on the russian economy now moving along to asia let's see that close

up picture that because markets are now and that they're trading session nikkei down two percent and i want. percent and there with all its all this is coming after china caught it's ready to shore up its economy also of course investors are reacting very well to the news coming out from as well as the euro zone and also we know that even though exports have been particularly well in japan for the past week now they're not doing so and that's because the market data shows that there will be a trade deficit all right now same with japan and its economy though has been performing better than estimated earlier in the first quarter so that's a bit of a relief there for some investors new figures suggest that japan's annual growth is now four point seven percent instead of four point one percent and that was reported back in may and this is reflected in high a private consumption and state spending and that's of course following the country's devastating tsunami last year. and a look at the u.s.

markets which always a fact all the others in the wall this is the closing picture from thursday's performance that was makes the dow out of just the knowledge although that was half a percent and this follows comments by u.s. federal reserve chairman ben bernanke even said that the call in the media is would be in crisis and would be severely affected by the euro zone that crisis and the first schools that. the school edition there and also investors are of course were tracking everything that was happening overseas as well as decline including prices i'll get to that in a second for us let's take a look at the currencies see what's happening right now and the euro is still losing the against the dollar when it comes to the ruble still we've seen losses against both major currencies despite all the recent efforts of the russian central bank which has been trying to strengthen the advice in the hundreds of millions dollars and that's has been working for a couple of days now it's going back down and the final look at crude prices heading south in fact they're heading for their longest weekly losing streak in

over thirteen years and this is the result of concerns about a slowdown in the call the slowdown of growth the economies of china. and they knew was basically this well we have not very optimistic but that seems up this is what it's worth to us in the beginning of the week at least during the well as they say every cloud has a silver and actually go away going forward we're waiting absolutely fingers crossed brian thanks very much indeed for a business update and in just a few minutes and watch our special reports which spotlights the survivors of nuclear bombings but before that i'll bring you the headlines.

back here with the top stories top u.n. officials call the security council to pressure the syrian government while saying the armed opposition is stepping up its attacks which must as another massacre pulls the country closer to civil war with do you want observers still able to verify the details be atrocities. residencies and small irish town go back to their old currency to save businesses from collapse as more people fear the eurozone we had down the drain that's in the reports they will need at least forty billion dollars in bailout money to boost its crisis headbands . the euro twenty takes off later was scandal as

several european governments boycott the championships they say they are concerned about north human rights records and race discrimination at club level in host poland and ukraine and will not attend the games in protest. well if there are special report of the survivors of a nuclear bombing state for that. the fall out from the french tests went beyond the polynesian islands it caused outrage in new zealand which took the lead in the anti-nuclear movement and became a black sheep among western countries yes unlike any other country new zealand refused to rely on nuclear weapons for its security but here nuclear technology is banned it's the law i think a lot of the young people feel proud about new zealand especially for a policy that people have come of complacent and feel as foreign with saif there are these other issues here i mean a lot of people.