u.n. officials call on the security council to pressure the syrian government while admitting down 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 are two reports from ireland and the other crippled country some locals are going back to the past where their currency. the euro twenty twelve football tournament kicks off laden was scandalous several european governments boycott the championships and food riots and race issues.

this is r.t. live from moscow three pm in the russian capital i'm marina joshie now they have the un along with the world bodies envoy to syria want more international pressure on the mask is to bring about compliance with the u.n. peace plan the kofi annan also urged increasingly aggressive rebel forces to lay down arms now this comes in the wake of another massacre in syria our correspondent even atia has the latest from damascus they have been able to speak to their chief for the past all face of the u.n. supervision mission in syria today here in damascus and he has said that the moment is trying 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 air. and then two terrorist operation launched

in the central syria and it's lot absolutely not safe in that area and this is why they're not allowing anybody in even the u.n. observers were in here in two different takes from the opposition and from the syrian government the opposition is claim is that the syrian army shelled two peaceful farming village in central syria and after that alleged through assad middletons came in they were tired people they shocked they starved and burned in an orgy of violence the syrian government has been reporting that they've got a call from the local residents in one of these villages asking for help after militants took over the village and immediately after these call they launched this operation and after they entered the village they discovered nine bodies of civilians and it's actually also contradicts what the rebels are reporting about death toll the most extreme doffed death toll given so far stones that's almost one

hundred dad and this is the figure that's been picked up by almost old international media who can 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 iran have been calling on international community to put more pressure on damascus and i has 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. the responsibility of the syrian authorities to and the violence in their country both u.s. and international officials have recognized that the reason a third force operating here in syria and it's not give clear who exactly is behind what it contains and carding jihad is the group of the murderers as you know. is

that the position groups do not only. do not only failed to comply to the court found on plan but they did clear that it is their intention not to do so which is a very dangerous development a very counterproductive development coffin as has that 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 other nations that are backing the rebels they are already interfering into serious internal affairs and not only syria is spain and gulf by the constant but also the international community. is shaken by this conflict and is very much divided and there is no compromising that my financial reporting how the syrian government is up against an international media onslaught and a foreign funded insurgency according to political analysts and. 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 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. well so i have for this hour here in our team rival route

find out which countries hope to join the qur'an in 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 else entirely. on a coming a 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 one dritte is specially vulnerable to a worsening of the eurozone debt crisis and moody's rating agency said earlier ireland may need out financial lifeline after the existing bailout program expires in two thousand and fourteen and in 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 laura smith reports the experiments helped to soften the blow and

. it's a blast from the past this customer uses the irish put to pay for some everyday purchases in the town of closeness 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 whatever you spend or fifty points whatever you spend we will give you a change of tone is turn voters which you can then go and spend cross the road and super value on the korea or go for a drink up the town it's a great scheme for the child it means all the money remains in 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

a lot of people come from across the border from us as fast as our own from people from the phantom zone us have a complication months women can hash. it 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 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 premises 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 the whole country has suffered with starting measures with a. new order charges which are common and shortly new household charge which came in this year and will increase every year. there was a two percent hike up to twenty three percent in the point of sale tax with. 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. island. and the future of the eurozone as a main theme of this friday's debate. valley's gas discuss likely bailouts to spanish banks and the usefulness of hysteria measures across europe all that's on the next hour but here's a quick taste of what's coming. in the usa it's train t.

to twenty two percent stephen 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 practices i really just really really doing this and you know suggesting you know the solution you're suggesting which is to collapse the banking system of the eurozone is no i do not use unemployment in the euro zone i tell you that much now listen. as you will this is a process europe is there anything on this is the austerity 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 this and 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 that has to be an end to austerity and that's what we're going to get in the eurozone. as a euro twenty twelfth football championships are finally here fans are drawing upon poland and ukraine helping their team while net the silverware but the term is already proving controversial worth government boycotts from several european countries threatening to spoil the beautiful game by the sports presenter kate hardware which is and ukraine for us. the u.k. government have joined the french government in saying that they will boycott the tournament during the group stages well this is due 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 the situation here is not really just about political controversies that seem to be dogging this

tournament but also about social issues and racism has become a particular issue particularly in england but firstly the main news that just coming through is a problem that that's actually been so shit with the dutch team they based not in ukraine they're braced in krakow in poland just before they come to buy their game and they have they got 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 a 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 the players families of alex. theo walcott both players their families of said that they won't go to ukraine but this also follows in the light 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 was playing he would walk off the pitch well the president michel platini has said that this situation is not a unilateral decision for clay is it's a decision for the referee the ukrainian national perspective is very much about making this an issue not about the political issues 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. hospitable everybody is welcome all nations all creates and to enjoy the football and the football or be the priority not the political issues not the social issues. are there was kate part of her sports presented there in ukraine and we're covering all the latest news from poland and ukraine on a special day for all fans in our sports bolton just hour to hour here. now in the meantime the nicaraguan government's planning to build

a thirty billion dollar trade route to arrive all the panama canal and several countries including russia are vying for the chance to fund the plan that has more the u.s. has had the biggest share of trade between the atlantic and pacific oceans since the panama canal was completed in one nine hundred fourteen that situation is now under threat with new plans to build another canal in nearby nicaragua because more and more ships are too big for the panama canal to handle project leaders say they've had interest from russia china japan south korea venezuela and brazil towards the thirty billion dollar project the nicaraguan government hopes it would bring much needed investment to the country currently the region's second poorest after haiti the project has faced some controversy one route running along the river border with neighboring costa rica has caused complaints but nicol regular maintains it does have the right to build there the panama canal is currently going

through an upgrade but even after that's finished this nicaraguan canal would be able to take bigger ships and with global trade increasingly shifting to the asia pacific region interest in a second route is also growing if all goes according to plan the project could be completed by two thousand and nineteen. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world. the u.n. nuclear watchdog is to urge a rod for a deal that would allow its inspectors to visit a military complex were suspected nuclear weapons research has taken place the meeting began 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 maintains its program was set up for peaceful purposes. doesn't have been killed after government troops clashed with al qaeda fighters in yemen then 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 one bomb of ego in the south believed to belong to the forces troops are attempting to reclaim towns seized by militants last year during the uprising against former president salih. u.n. human rights chief says u.s. drone attacks in pakistan are quote legally problematic and may not comply with international law that would be way suggesting the pakistani government invite the un to investigate some of the strikes america says it will continue the attacks despite calls from pakistan to amp up tensions between the two countries rose last year when missiles killed twenty four pakistani soldiers prompting is all about to block the mood of supply routes to afghanistan or. boil parties an idjit have agreed on how to select the panel that will write the country's new constitution after reports from the ruling military council the previous panel was dissolved

after secular and liberal members of organize a walkout complain that islam is dominated the a sample preparations for the new constitution come as egyptians get ready to head to the polls for the upcoming highly contested elections 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. reports egyptians are tangled in a political web to a point where they are failing to spot a growing danger threatening nalini economy but also their health. it took this from the forty seven years to accumulate his wealth and just one week to lose a third of it. i had one morning open this place and found three buffalo lying down they wouldn't eat or drink anything all the houses in this village all the farmers here lost cattle within a month a foot in mouth disease killed thousands of casual buffalo sheep and other

livestock across egypt in march the united nations declared it a catastrophe and warned 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 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 there we saw corruption is very cold these three business and need to be free to do anything when it was found out a new strain on the disease had hit egypt it seemed heart rates soaring and prices rocketing. people got afraid and stopped buying meat choosing instead to eat chicken and fish this push the price of poultry up on 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 like more people are waiting to hear if they can trust him a lot. but they might be waiting a while after very for often this has never affected the speed to this day to see all corrupted the only the people who show difference the don't want his or her flight. they protest by the state that mean bureaucracy has never changes. doctors have taken to the streets to protest against a government budget proposal that allocates less than five percent of spending to the health sic to but their despondent priorities are not part. of the previous regime. said that perhaps the thought of security the

regime security the most important issue for them so they spend. a lot of money on there was a lot of moves towards. taxes disappeared there was a lot of corruption and we've all this work is there for the 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. a federal judge in the u.s. has ruled washington cannot indefinitely detain american suspected of having terrorist ties unless they have been found in connection with the september eleventh attacks comes just six months after president obama signed the national defense authorization act which would have allowed american citizens to be held without trial or charge the judge initially ruled the act was unconstitutional last

month but the obama administration asked her to reconsider their ruling attorney karl mair says the act threatened 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.b.a. which threatened to put him in a military prison indefinitely without benefit a trial lawyer anyone who quite substantially supported al qaeda or quote associated forces usa today did editorial and to realize 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. well it seems happening and the while of this is her crossing to marian hossa there i think some rain of all what has happened is the five that markets are going south that's what's happened in the south there and then their losses and we've been seeing this happen for the past couple of hours but other want to start with the markets first we have some exciting news when it comes to russian investors on oh they'll be happy about that first of all russia's largest ally and those by a bag has clinched its largest deal by acquiring turkish the needs of the deal is or three point five billion dollars and will be finalized by the end of the year now this comes after two weeks of exclusive talks and damage at the bend from qatar national bank they said the offer that was too low the sellers franco belgian that

much is forced to divest businesses after it's that pesky buy ballots in france and luxembourg last october and the acquisition is part of our bank's push to diversify away from the home market and february it agreed to buy v.d.i. back from also finland their volkswagen. and let's take a look at how the markets are taking this news where in fact they're not really reacting to that they are reacting to the five that oil prices are going sharply lower this is never good for the russian economy because the u.s. is dropping over two percent when it comes to the. point six five percent let's take a look at some of the vigils i was on the my six this hour most of the blue chips are naturally in the red not even use of the acquisition of these fine because helping the sperm bank as you can see is dropping over two and a half percent said that just in the interest to raise in early gains on thursday john six per cent and that's when news that approve the buyback program with six hundred million dollars and then we have the vase which is also losing over one and

a half percent and that's despite plans that announce that it will have created joint production in kazakhstan so there you have it a lot of good news but not really a factor in the markets or the shares there from going on to currencies the euro is losing against the dollar when it comes to the ruble and against both major currencies despite all the efforts of the russian central bank to strengthen the ruble that has been working for a couple of days but not anymore as you can see by the numbers there now moving on to crude as i said sharply lower today lights we destroyed at around eighty two dollars per barrel the brunt blend the slowly approaching ninety eight dollars and then five crude prices are heading for their longest weekly losing streak in more than the thirteen years and all this is coming from drone concerns about a slowdown in the colonies of the u.s. as well as china and people are concerned that it will curb fuel demand now when it comes to europe a sea of red there's the footsies losing half a percent and the german dax is slightly behind but also in the red and investors

there are reacting to comments made by us for chairman the reserve chairman ben bernanke said that the u.s. economy is at risk from the eurozone debt crisis and amid a more fiscal policy a lot of investors were waiting for more monetary stimulus and they're waiting for this to be a noun. but bad didn't happen also of course want to come see your investors are looking at what is happening in spain because we know that the country's rating was downgraded and now there are fresh reports that it will in fact seek a bailout as early as this weekend while staying within europe but the some talking about agrees with all that many investors are wondering whether it will exit the euro zone or not and what the effects of this will be but we've been speaking to professor nouriel roubini the man who predicted the two thousand and eight financial crisis around the world and he said the spike the outcome whatever that might be of the upcoming parliamentary elections in greece the probability over the eggs in the euro zone will remain quite high i would say that you know by next year

and i would say that is at least a probability that greece or the euro zone thing eventually even if not into a new government is going to try to reform the very little mix is actually coming so they will that they will exit and i would say that it could be good good for them as long as back this is all belief and means and then there are massive differentiation on the tax or ecomil compared to the rest or growth restore its balance. damage the banks damage the savings of people in the banks and that's why they need more funding to make sure that there is not does orderly meltdown and the contagion but at the eurozone is mol this is the mega see it that way and it's fine for these over the early probably it's a manageable look on the bags are going i'm also enjoy a fabulous weekend i know bush will have the next update for you by for ian thanks very much and a good job well done enjoy the weekend and we're looking forward to more updates with daniel next hour before that and oh i'll be back with

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