top u.n. officials call in the security council to pressure the syrian government while admitting that the armed opposition is stepping up its attacks as another massacre pulls the country closer to civil war. reports suggest they will need at least forty billion euros to boost its crisis hit banks meanwhile as artsy reports from ireland and now their group will country some locals are going back to the past with their currency. the euro two thousand and twelve global tournament kicks off laden with scandalous several european governments boycott the championship image human rights and race issues.

what you guys are coming to life from moscow i'm marina joshie the head 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 this comes in the wake of another massacre in syria so let's cross live now to our correspondent even arsenal for the latest from damascus have the u.n. observers in syria been able to verify the details of this atrocity that's come to light and determine who's to blame. well i'm going to actually not we have been able to speak to the chief of the press office of the u.n. supervision mission here in syria today here in damascus and he has said that the monitors will try to do their best and will continue their efforts to reach the site of a massacre in the central province of hama they've been reports before that they were not allowed to get in there because they were stopped at the syrian army

checkpoints it actually doesn't contradict what we're hearing from official sources here in damascus we are hearing that the army and security forces us to carrying out a so-called clearance operation in the area after an anti terrorist operation launched in the central syria and its lot absolutely not safe in that area and this is why they're not allowing anybody in a very observant so it's absolutely not clear so far when or even if the u.n. observers will be able to make their way to the side but what is clear absolutely is that what happened requires incredible investigation because there's been a lot of confusion much much more confusion than all of the previous massacres here in syria with so-called witness accounts and the do just not matching and it's absolutely clear that it's simply impossible right now to who was responsible and who was behind it but it's absolutely clear that it has to be done because such

massacre. situation here in syria and the. made this division between those who backed the president bashar assad and those who don't support him even so just to remind you what's actually happened with what we didn't hear in two different takes from the opposition and from the syrian government the opposition's claim is that the syrian army shelled two peaceful farming village in central syria and after that alleged pro i saw admitted turns cave in. they tied people up they shot they starved and burned in an orgy of violence and to support that they even posted some videos although these videos have been quite questionable because the dead bodies they contained by all appearances have been little bits have been a two decades. to have the budget rebels have been talking about and from

that village in syria at the same time the syrian government has been reporting that they've got a call from the local residents in in one of these villages asking for help after militants took over the village and they've been preparing for an operation a special operation in that area before and that it's been announced openly so they've been stationed in that area they were kind of ready and immediately off to these coal they've launched this operation and after they entered. the village they discovered nine bodies of civilians and it's actually also contradicts towards the rebels are reporting about the death toll the most extreme doffed death toll given so far stands at most it's almost one hundred dad and this is the figure that's been picked up by international but almost old international media so as you can see the reason a lot of draw a lot of contradictions and

a lot of confusion in this massacre of quickly it has to be investigated properly but one it's going to happen just too early to say right now well as you were saying that if you're reading situation in syria in fact has countries and international bodies calling for action and how is the u.n. responding to the latest massacre. well we're going to hear it from new york from the u.n. security council that both. secretary general ban ki-moon and special envoy to syria coffee and i have been calling on international community to put more pressure on damascus and i had a sad that his peace plan is not been implemented although these time stressing that it's not being implemented by both sides and both sides both ground opposition and syrian government are responsible for what's going on at the same time emphasizing this is. it is the responsibility of the syrian authorities to

and the violence in their country so it looks a little bit like dad love because while the country syria is divided on those who support and those who don't support the regime the international community also lukes of pretty much divided on how to behave and how to and this crisis in syria but there is also a kind of progress in understanding as well between the size because both u.s. and international officials have recognized that the reason a third force operating here in syria and it's not just clear who exactly is behind what it contains and carved into hard is and they recognize it finally just to remind you it's been also a very difficult and sensitive issue in this conflict because since the beginning of the uprising the syrian government has been. accused many times and on assad has

been accused many times of suppressing unarmed innocent civilians while the fischel . the official opinion of damascus was that they've they are fighting against armed groups and against terry so let's not listen to what russian envoy to the u.n. has to say about this about this third force operation in syria. the truth of the matter is as you know is that armed opposition groups only. do not only failed to comply to the government plan but they've been clear that it is their intention not to do so which is a very dangerous development a very counterproductive development. while coffin and the fate of the syrian president bashar assad has to be decided by syrian people and this is something that russia and china are also supporting being very

much against any kind of intervention special military intervention and any kind of interference but at the same time we can see that. other nations that are backing rebels they are already interfering into serious internal affairs and we've been seeing them. just recently and discussing so called post assad syria so we can see that not only syria is spain and gulf by the constant but also the international community is is shaken by this conflict and is very much divided and there is no compromising that. primaries thanks very much indeed for bringing us the latest from syria more even national reporting. on 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. now still have for you this hour here in r.t.e. rival road find out which countries hope to join the crowd when the building of

a new coast to coast waterway which threatens to rival the panama canal. also from bad to worse gyptian is currently mired in political turmoil face another danger which threatens both economy and health of the entire region. upcoming 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 ratings 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 an existing bailout program expires and twenty fourteen and a lot of the recent troubles with residents of wild irish town have revived their old currency to help businesses ravaged by the economic downturn laura smith reports their experiments help soften the blow. it's

a blast from the past this customer uses the irish put to pay for some every day purchases in the town of clueless island 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 them cash back into the community. pointed to was twenty point whatever you spend or fifty point whatever you spend we would give you a change of tone has turned vouchers which you can then go and spend cross the road and super value on the credit note or go for a drink up the child it's 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. a lot of people come from across the border from us

as fast as our own from people from the phantom zone us a complication months women can hash. out there's an estimated two hundred eighty five million puns tucked away in draws and under the mattress is 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 bigger cities throughout. 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 in shortly you household charge which came in this year and will increase every year. there was a two percent hike up to twenty three percent on 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 conus may not be alone in looking back for its future nor a smith r.t. cloners island. the euro two thousand and while football championships are finally here fans are drawing upon poland and ukraine hoping their team will neck the silverware by its tournaments is already proving controversial with government boycotts from several european countries threatening to spoil the beautiful game

wired to sports presenter pay part which is in ukraine for us let's get the latest from u.k. so sports always meant to be above politics and this is all proving a little embarrassing for the as the words of the moment what's going on tell us more. from the ukrainian city of live off which is actually the cradle of ukrainian polish football but the issue as you say is not really about sports and football it's about politics because the u.k. government have joined the french government in saying that they will boycott the tournament during the group stages well this is to to the alleged mistreatment of the imprisoned former prime minister yulia timoshenko. both the u.k. government as i say on the back of the french government and other high profile e.u. withdrawals and threatened withdrawals over the alleged mistreatment. while you know racism has become the watchword of the storm as well how has the world of football responded to it. well the situation here is not really just about political

controversies that seem to be dogging this tournament but also about social issues and as you say racism has become a particular issue particularly in england but firstly the main news that's just coming through is a problem that that's actually been cited with the dutch team they're based not in ukraine they're braced in krakow in poland just before they come into play their game and they have a they've had their training session today and apparently they were subjected to racist abuse while they were on the pitch which is a sad incident from the reports after they went to see auschwitz yesterday but racism as i say is it is particularly a topic in england because last week there was broadcast a program that on the b.b.c. a panorama programme called stadiums of hates which highlighted club level particular problems with racism and anti-semitism in poland and ukraine and these pictures were shown to the england former captain and defend assault campbell and he looked at these pictures and said that he and the england fan of black all mixed

race he would he would not go to these to eastern europe he said he wouldn't risk it for fear of coming back in the coffin now they're all for that the players families of alex. theo walcott both players their families have said that they won't go to ukraine but also follows in the lives of comments made by match to city striker mario balotelli he said and he's he's been subjected to racist abuse across europe and he said that should the situation arise while he's playing he would walk off the pitch well the president michel platini has said that this situation is not a unilateral decision for players it's a decision for the referee now the referee has the right to stop the game should any place suffer any kind of abuse and matches have been stopped before the has been a president during the qualifying games where italy played serbia in general in october two thousand and ten and after severe found trouble not to study the race nature but serious trouble the referee just. what's to stop the match and dismay were

awarded three nil victory so problems this particular night to the fans really help in that countries. as they slowly go the extra points why need a lot of issues surrounding this particular tarmon but you know the games will go ahead in the time and will start so what is now talk about what's going in the countries i mean both ukraine and poland are not exactly swimming in money as we know so tell us a bit more about the preparations so have they managed to get everything in place in time. well ukraine and poland have had five years to prepare but there have been problems these have been reported there's been delays over stadiums and infrastructure there are also problems reported about hotel use in ukraine that prices apparently a ten fold increase well this didn't impress the say u.a.e. the president michel platini he called some of these hoteliers rubbish he didn't mince his words but we're here in ukraine to say we're here in the fall victim to vote behind me and so it's all we haven't encountered any problems the ukrainian

national perspective is very much about making this an issue not about that this issue is not about you it's a machine gun it's all about the football and it's all about the watchword here is ukrainian hospitality they want this tournament to remain to be remembered as one that was hospitable everybody is welcome of all nations all creeds and to enjoy the football and the football will be the priority not the political issues not the social issues the football. or a kate thanks very much indeed for bringing us the very latest on the euro two thousand and twelve football championships reporting there from ukraine. why we are covering all the latest news from poland and ukraine on a special day for football fans in our sports board and that will become you wait about twenty minutes time see for that if you care. in the mean time the nicaraguan government 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 or just general bushell

has more. you know it's. true between the atlantic and pacific oceans ever since it opened the panama canal but no real show plans to build a void. that threatens 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. daniel bushell there are now is take a look at some other stories from around the world the u.n. nuclear watchdog a surge iran for a deal that would allow its inspectors to visit a military complex where its suspected nuclear weapons research is taking place the meeting began today in vienna however these lawmakers public is not expected to make any major statements for broader talks at the end of next week in moscow and number of western powers fear iran's been attempting to create nuclear arms so iran maintains its program was set up for peaceful purposes. dozens have been killed

after government troops clash will codified. 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 now believed to belong to forces yemeni troops are attempting to reclaim 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 may not comply with international law now he 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 to block nato supply routes to afghanistan. well political parties in

a jiffy taghreed on how to select a panel 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 organized a walkout complaining that islamised 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. is in the courts egyptian. political web to the point where they are failing to spot a growing danger threatening only the economy but also their health. it took this upon 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 and other 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 kid a catastrophe and mourned the epidemic could threaten human food supplies far and wide but egyptian politicians were too busy with the revolution to take much notice for the work done by the government did not do anything for us my 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. under way so were a friend if very call the three business paying me to be free to do anything when it was found out a new strain on the disease had hit egypt it seemed heart 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 to keep getting worse no one's buying from me why the more people are waiting to hear if they can trust him and. that they might be waiting a while after very formal and this has never affected the speed to this day that is see all who are the only the people who show difference the don't know what sort of sales they protest by the state that mean bureaucracy has never changed. and doctors have taken to the streets to protest against a government budget proposal that allocates less than five percent of spending to

the health sector but their despondent priorities are not private. the previous regimes. perhaps the security of the regime security is the paramount most important issue for them so they spend. a lot of money on their with local. taxes disappeared there are growth of corruption and with all this work is left for. improvement. 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. well let's hear is happening in business you know are you very good news or what or all this hour say our million my is

a string of losses so it's not all bad but at least it's not as bad as it was last hour put it this way but i won't start with the bad news also with some positive news and i asked if i that russia's biggest lenders for a bank has clenched its largest deal by acquiring circus these banks and fight the deal as such we were three point five billion dollars and will be finalized by the end of this year this follows two weeks of exclusive talks and they rejected bid from could saw a national bank they said the offer was too low the sellers franco belgian dexia which is forced to divest businesses and that's after it states rescued by belgium france and luxembourg last october the acquisition is part of supposed to diversify away from the home market let's not forget that in february it agreed to buy v b i bank from. bank and. now look at the markets and we have r.t.s. on the my six which are still loose and that's basically because of the client oil prices which also have a major effect on the russian economy will get that in a second let's move on and take

a look at the current sees the euro is still losing against the dollar when it comes to the ruble it's losing against both major. currencies despite all the efforts by the russian central bank now of course something that always a frags the russian economy is prudent prices are heading for their longest weekly losing streak and over thirteen years i was about six when it's really not there yet lights what is right in that eighty two dollars and eighty cents now when it comes to europe a sea of red there as well but as i said there are many mines in earlier losses footsies down point half a percent lower similarly with the dives investors are reacting to the u.s. federal reserve chairman ben bernanke he comments in that the u.s. economy is adverse from the eurozone debt crisis now staying with europe will have fresh news about spain and there are reports now suggesting that it will request the bailout after all and as early as this weekend this follows a downgrade of its credit rating which means it thinks the economy's ability to pay back that has now weakens the international credit agency also estimate the country

needs an extra hundred billion euros to shore up its banks. but also other major concern is greece and people have been talking about whether greece will exit the eurozone or not and we've been talking to neural roubini the man who predict the world financial crisis in two thousand and eight and he said no matter what the outcome is of the elections the probability of greece exiting the euro zone over may and quite high. i would say that you know by the next the i would say that is at least the probability that the greece a good the eurozone thing eventually even if they elect not into a new government there's a lot of tries at a forum and on this issue of the public so i will say no to that they will exit and i would say that it wouldn't do a good for them as long as they exist is all of them. and means of them there are maps of the cliche shown that actually called the compact is a better story brought the story in a bottle and of course there will be damage the banks damage the savings of people

in the banks and that's why they need more funding to make sure that it is not does overly melt down and the contagion that i saw you was on his wall this was his i'm naked see it this way and it's fine i've said he's orderly probably it's a manageable look on the bag and you can watch before and very well professor over you may hear or see on monday and that's it for me right now maria i'm right thanks very much and we'd marina for this update our recap the day's headlines and just a few moments year already. the.

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