the anon 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 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 within the security council need to take a look at the entire picture within syria opposition groups only. do not only failed to comply to. be clear because they were intentional to do so which is a very dangerous development of it go into productive development russia has proposed an international conference on syria which is similar to what kofi annan has proposed under the title of a contact group now this international conference would include the five veto wielding members of the security council as well as countries that have influence on the syrian government and the armed opposition. specifically saudi arabia qatar

and iran ambassador 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. now reporting there now the u.n. meeting comes in the wake of another massacre in syria with women and children among the dozens of reported victims u.n. observers have so far been unable to reach the side of the killings stablish what actually happened is very of an option is 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 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 to pieces hold villages in central syria not far from the city of hama and after that allegedly prove. tens 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 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 only just as you can see both sides. think there is a trial there while witnesses reports just contradict each other about who was responsible and without credible investigation right now is to just simply impossible to establish who was behind this massacre. the syrian government is up against an international media onslaught and a foreign funded insurgency according to political analysts so booty. 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 able global cable

networks because they are spreading blatant law is no doubt mr assad has less control over his country because this country is being invaded by foreign interests by foreign groups who are funded and armed by the united states and other groups for the western powers are really playing with fire trying to generate killings and mass civil war inside syria in order to have an excuse for military intervention or diplomatic political and military intervention we can see that there are definitely criminal organizations operating inside syria as they have done in libya and they are still doing in libya in all these organizations are financed trained and armed by the western powers also have for you this hour a rival route find out which countries to join rob why in the building of a new coast to coast waterway which starts to rival the dam the canal. on the program from bad to worse objections currently mired in political turmoil face

another danger which threatens both the economy and health of the entire region. then a coming 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 madrid is especially vulnerable to a worsening of the eurozone debt crisis and moody's rating agency said earlier island may need a financial lifeline after the existing bailout program expires in two thousand and fourteen at a light of the euro's recent troubles residents of one irish town have revived their old currency to help businesses ravaged by the economic downturn as artist laura smith now reports their experiments helped soften the blow. it's a blast from the past to may use is the on. irish put to paper some everyday 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 claw some cash back into the community if you bring in pointed to was twenty point spend or fifty point whatever you spend we would give you the change of tone is tone voters which you can then go and spend cross the road and supervisor you are in the crib or go for a drink up the town it's it's a great scheme for the time 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 definitely a lot of people come from from about foss especially our own from people from no phantom zone us have an obligation mountain. out there's an estimated two hundred eighty five million tucked away in draws 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 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 promise 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 they start just told us the whole country has suffered with. 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. and a feature of the eurozone as the main theme of this friday's debate show cross stock host peter lawwell and his guests discuss likely bailouts to spanish banks and the usefulness of us terry measures across europe well that's on in about twenty minutes time here on r.t. but here is a quick taste of what's coming. thank you it's a it's trained t. to twenty two percent steven and there's fifty fifty million people on food stamps stephen and i think you want to take account of these things the usa is responsible for this and it's the average and it's practice is really really doing this and

you're suggesting you're the solution you're suggesting which is to collapse the banking system of the eurozone is no i do not see those years unemployment in the eurozone i tell you that much now listen the us this is what i see is a cross europe is there a harness is the austerity of the austerity policies the austerity policies across the eurozone are not working they are making matters worse they must be stopped and they will be stopped because of the election in france because of the pressure of the g seven because of the pressure from the g. twenty we're going to reflate the global economy we're going to take on we're going to take on extra debt frankly in order to make sure that people can get jobs and we can bring unemployment down it's absolutely vital that we do that there has to be an into austerity that doesn't have to be a banking revolution there has to be an end to austerity and that's what we're going to get in the eurozone. the are a twenty foot ball championships are finally here millions of fans are descending upon poland and ukraine hoping their team will that's the sort of way that the

tournament is already proving controversial with government boycotts from several european countries threatening to spoil the beautiful game i do sportsperson a key part which is in ukraine for us. you know twenty two of 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. capehart reported there and we're covering all the latest news from poland and ukraine on this special day for football fans and our sports bulletin next hour the 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 are sustainable still has more. you know if the lawyers share of 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 three neighboring. that threatens the hugely profitable existing routes as traders increasingly go for joint ships that is 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. they are starting to look at some other stories from around the world when it nuclear watchdog a surge of iran 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 began today in vienna however of the islamic republic is not expected to make any major statements for broader talks at the end of the next week in moscow a number of western powers fear while has been attempting to create a nuclear arms to iran dangerous program was set up for peaceful purposes. dozens have been killed after government troops clashed with al qaida 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 were killed when warplanes bombed a vehicle. to belong to a fortress yemeni troops are attempting to reclaim town seized by militants last year during the uprising against former president saleh. u.n. human rights chief says u.s. drone attacks in pakistan are quote legally problematic and may not comply with international law and we bill i 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 end up tensions between the two countries rose last year when missiles killed twenty four pakistani soldiers prompting a song about to block nato supply routes to get a studio. more than a dozen prisoners have broken free from a jail in northern afghanistan inmates escaped after detonating an explosive which destroyed a watchtower guards and opened fire on the prisoners killing three many were

recaptured but authorities are hunting for fourteen people who managed to escape several of the prisoners are now known to be members of the taleban. political parties in egypt have agreed on how to select a panel of that will write the country's new constitution after a push from the ruling military council the previous panel was dissolved after secular and liberal members organize a walkout complaining that islam has dominated the assembly preparations for the new constitution as objections 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 ahmed shafik or just most of your reports egyptians are tangled in a political web to the point where you're failing to spot a growing danger threatening not only the economy but also for your health. it

took this fall on the forty seven years to accumulate his wealth and just one week to lose a third of it. one morning in this place and three buffalo lying down they wouldn't drink anything but the houses in this village on the phone this here last council. 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 egypt and politicians would 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 is low cost egypt should say the situation has been worsened by a climate of corruption. in government employees. and we saw corruption give very poor the three business being needed 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 instated 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 either more people are waiting to hear if they can trust them a lot. but they might be waiting a while if ther very for the roof and this has never afraid to speak to this day to see all who are up the street or near the people who saw the fruits of the boom what sort of slaves they protest by this the 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 food security the regime security the most important issue for them to they spend. a lot of money on there was a local news old. texas disappear there was a lot of corruption and we don't want this work is there for very improvement or prints the services. and so behind the country's political jockeying is an unfolding public health disaster with potentially much larger implications for egypt and what happens on the political front police. officer will

judge in the u.s. has ruled washington cannot indefinitely detain americans 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 a national defense authorization act which would have allowed american citizens to be held without trial or charge the judge initially ruled the act was unconstitutional last month but the obama administration asked her to reconsider the ruling attorney carl mayer says the act so rotten americans basic freedoms. but all of this is a gun too far in this country our civil liberties are increasingly under attack not just from drones that are being sent over american cities not just from the police are now in paramilitary 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 in in a military prison indefinitely without benefit a 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 un-american in 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 a serious a current has taken place near the border between israel and lebanon and eliminate an object emerged in the night sky and began to spiral for several minutes attracting sounds of puzzled all of course similar sight as witnessed in norway in two thousand and nine and turned out to be as failed missile launch

a most experts believe that's why it was seen all over israel despite some people convinced of extraterrestrial activity or for that it's available. well now to the world business you don't have any information on your toes by any chance. i think it would be slightly more exciting because the day we're seen as c.e.o. of read a lot of pessimism in the air this hour do have some positive news for you russia's top lenders burbank has clinched its large is so far by acquiring turkish the new deal is said to be worth about three point five billion dollars and that should be finalized by the end of the year now this comes after two weeks of exclusive talks and rejected bit from a national bank they said the offer was too low there the sellers franco belgian which is forced to divest businesses after its they rescued by belgium france and

luxembourg last october and the accusation the acquisition i should say it's part of the banks push to diversify away from the home markets in february it agreed to buy the bank from. spanking. from the positive let's go back to the negative and take a look at the markets will start with bosh where markets here are increasing their losses the arts yes close to three percent that's our my say exist slowly approaching one and a half percent in the red and the main factor year are decline in oil prices as well as the negative statements coming out from the west as well as you have i guess that in the second let's take a look at currencies take a look what's happening there the euro i believe this though it's still losing against the dollar when it comes to the ruble it's also losing against both major major currencies that's the spine all of the efforts that's been put in by the russian central bank to strengthen that it's been selling the hundreds of millions of dollars but it hasn't been the work and it did work for two days and now we're

seeing it go back down crude as i said the prices that are slumping it with a waltz get in the previous trade in session and that's where the russian markets where the wild wild but not anymore lights were destroyed and that all around. on the bright slowly approaching ninety eight dollars per barrel and here we know that prices are in fact heading for their longest week losing streak in more than thirteen years all right let's take a look at europe now and see what's happening there is a sea of red and the footsie is shot in close to one percent the german dax is already over a point and basically investors there are reacting to the u.s. federal reserve chairman ben bernanke stating that the u.s. economy is not immune to risk from the debt crisis in the euro zone and also many investors were hoping that they would see some additional monetary stimulus out into the economy but we didn't hear anything about that and also of course we have spain we know that has downgraded the rating of the country and basically what it

means is that it thinks the economy's ability to play baghdad has weakened the international credit agency also estimates the country needs an extra sixty billion euros to shore up its banks on thursday though we saw strong demand for spanish bonds which traders say is a good sign that the country can raise the funds. one another concern is that greece of course everyone is the analysts are speculating whether it will exit the euro zone or annoyance and we've been talking to professor in the real roubini and he of course is the man who predict the financial crisis of two thousand and eight and he says the probability of the so-called gregg's that as we've come to know it will remain quite high and the outcome of the parliamentary elections will be. i would say that you know by the next theater i would say that is at least probably greece exiting the euro zone thinking about it surely even if they like not into a new government there's another try to form an all next edition of the company so

since then little of that they will exit and i would say that it could be good for them as long as the exit is all of them that. means that then there are mosques in the shown that axworthy called the that are sort of good old. ballance of who could 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 isn't all disorderly metal and the contagion of the rest of the eurozone isn't all there so it does not make you see it that way and it's fine and he's all of the elite probably it's a manageable look on the bags. and you can watch the for interview with professor be in the on monday here in our d.c. and you can watch more of the business update next hour five for that signorina well maria thanks very much and deep and and just a few minutes here on ars you join our fiery debate show crosstalk but before that i'll bring the headlines stay with us for that.

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back you're watching our t.v. here's a look at the top stories a top u.n. official is calling the security council to pressure him of the syrian government while saying the armed opposition is stepping up its attacks which must of this as another massacre pulls the country closer to civil war with u.n. observers still unable to verify the details of the atrocity. presidents in a small irish town go back to their old currency to save businesses from collapse as more people fear of the euro is only heading down the drain that's amid reports they will need at least forty billion euros and money to boost its crisis hit banks . the euro twenty twelve football tournament kicks off laden was a scandal as several european governments boycott the championships they say they are concerned about poor human rights records and race discrimination at club level

and post poland and ukraine and will not attend the games in protest. while next in are typical of allen he is gas discuss the future for european monetary union as greece and spain sink deeper into the debt crisis. oh and welcome to crossfire computor all about crunch time for the euro with the greek economy in tatters and spain on the financial brain the future of the monetary union looks anything but bright world leaders are calling for quick and decisive action.