erin this is why they're not allowing anybody in even you and observers we're been hearing two different takes from the opposition and from the syrian government the opposition's claim is that the syrian army shelled to peaceful farming village in central syria and after that alleged through assad militants came in they were tied people up they shot they stopped and burned in an orgy of violence the syrian government has been reporting that they've got a call from the local residents and 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 reported about death toll the most extreme doffed death toll given so far stands at 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. 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 being implemented although these time stressing that it's not being implemented by both sides and both sides both from opposition and syrian government are responsible for what's going on at the same time into the size and this is. the responsibility of the syrian foreign 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 just clear who exactly is behind what it contains and cause them to hardy's the truth of the matter is as you know is the armed opposition groups only. to be.

plan but they did clear that it was 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 rebels they are already into fear him 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 still no compromising that my international reporting there 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 there bashar assad is responsible for these killings

and from the very beginning president assad said beware of the people global cable networks because they are spreading blatant lie 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. well so i have for this hour here in our team rival route find out which countries hope to join the corrado 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 clinton. 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 of fitch cut the country's sovereign ratings saying one dritte is specially vulnerable to a worsening of the eurozone debt crisis moody's rating agency said earlier ireland may need out financial lifeline after the existing 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 help to 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 closeness joined the euro from the get go in two thousand and two but crisis hit business owners here have revived their old currency to try and desperately close and cash back into the community if you bring in pointed to was twenty point whatever you spend or fifty whatever you spend we will give you a change of tone which you can then go and spend cross the road. or go for a drink it's a great scheme for the child it means all the money. 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. stopping by for a haircut while they're here oh yeah definitely a lot of people come from cross border from that are on from people from the. onus of complication. can have put it. out there's an estimated

two hundred eighty five million tucked away in draws an actress's 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 to the puts game has undoubtedly boosted the local economy but the ravages of the economic crash is still all too evidence the main street is lined with boarded up shops with around fifty percent of premises empty it's a scene that's repeated in small towns and biggest cities throughout our land austerity here means business people are being hit with a variety of taxes and levies making it harder and harder to stay afloat let alone turn a profit. the whole country has suffered with the measures with the. new

water charges which are common and shortly you household charge which which came in this year will increase every year. there was a two percent hike up to twenty three percent on the point of sale tax. we have to do something to improve the situation shopkeepers say going back to the point is 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 norris myth r.t. closeness and. the future of the eurozone as a main theme of this friday's debate show cross stock values 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 twenty 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 practice is i really just don't really as you say really doing this if you're suggesting there's a 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. there since it was a cross europe is there any policy is the all star to 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 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 well net the silverware but the term is already proving controversial with government boycotts from several european countries threatening to spoil the beautiful game i do 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 a 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 and particularly in england but firstly the main news that just

coming through is a problem that that's actually an associate with the dutch team they're 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 on 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 program 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 have 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 this 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 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 of 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 her selling sports presented there in ukraine and we're covering all the latest news from poland and ukraine on a special day for the fans and on sports bulletin just hour to hour here. now in the meantime the nicaraguan government's planning to build a thirty billion dollar trade routes to arrive all the panama canal and several countries including russia are vying for the chance to fund the planned artist

dumbarton 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 nickel regular and government hopes it would bring much needed investment to the country currently the region's second poorest after hade see 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 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 with gas and 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 and i'm western powers fear iran has been attempting to create a nuclear arms to iran 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 north of jar the battle left at least twenty dead three others were killed one bomb

of ego in the south we have 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 kill a suggested the pakistani government and by 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 whether this was killed twenty four pakistani soldiers prompting islam about to block the radio supply routes to afghanistan or. political parties uninjured have agreed on how to select the panel that will write the country's new constitution after a push from the ruling military council the previous panel was dissolved after secular and liberal members of organize a walkout complain that islam has dominated the a sample 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 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 for the forty seven years to accumulate his wealth and just one week to lose a third of it. one morning in this place and found three buffalo lying down they wouldn't eat or drink anything in the houses in this village. 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 dictated a catastrophe and mourned the epidemic could threaten human food supplies far and

wide but egypt and politicians were too busy with the revolution to take much notice that the body of the government did not do anything for us all animals are dying one by one and no one does anything i just love all egypt and say the situation has been worsened by a climate of corruption or government employees are. under so poor a friend is very cold these mean 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 rate 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 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 live more people are waiting to hear if they can trust them a lot. but they might be waiting a while after very fulfilling this has never affected the speed to see all who are up to the or near the people who saw difference the don't know what sort of flight. they protest by the state 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 regime says. that perhaps. the regime security is the most important issue for them so they spend. a

lot of money on their we move those were our taxes disappear there were growth of corruption and we don't do this work is there for there for improvement au-prince 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 mera says the act threatened americans basic freedoms. all of this is going 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 or now or paramilitary garb 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 threatened to put it in a military prison indefinitely without benefit a trial lawyer anyone who quite substantially supported al qaeda or quote associated forces u.s.a. today did editorial editorialize 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. well it seems happening and the while of business from causing to marian hossa there i think some rain of all what has happened is the fire that markets are going south that's what's happened in the south there are extending their law says 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 how they'll be happy about that first of all russia's largest those buy a bag has clinched its largest deal by acquiring turkish than the bank 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 salaries franco belgian that much is forced to divest businesses after it's that pesky buy balata france and

luxembourg last october and the acquisition is part of our bank's push to diversify away from the home market and february agreed to by v.d.i. bank from also aligned their vaults bank and. and that's like 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 the nice fan because the help in this for a bank as you can see is dropping over two and a half percent of us said that just in all just to raise nearly a gains on thursday six percent and that's the news that approved 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 are going on to currencies the euro is losing against the dollar when it comes to the ruble solution 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 light sweetest reading at around eighty two dollars per barrel the brand blend the slowly approaching ninety eight dollars and then find crude prices are heading for their longest weekly losing streak in more than the thirteen years and all this is coming from growing 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 as well 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 our 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 announced bud. bad thing that happened and also of course want to come see europe 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 and five seek a bailout as early as this weekend while staying with the euro but the some talking about greece for now that many investors are wondering whether the eurozone or not so 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 of it exiting the euro zone will remain quite high i would say that you know by next year or i would say there is at least the probability that greece exit the euro zone thinking about actually going

to like now into a new government is going to try to go to form and on expression becoming so unsustainable that they will exit and i would say that it could be good for them as long as the exit is all of them. and means of them there are massive the frustration on barack's very common compared to be a better story of growth restore its balance of course will be damaged the banks damaged the savings of people in the banks and that's why they need more funding to make sure that it's not dissolved really meltdown and the contagion that's the eurozone is milder so it does not make you see it that way and it's fine and so nice orderly probably it's a it's a manageable look on the bags. i'm going i'm off to enjoy a fabulous weekend i know bush will have next day for you by far in thanks very much indeed good job well done enjoy the weekend and we're looking forward to more updates with daniel next hour before that i'll be back with headlines stay with us .

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going to top stories top u.n. officials called the security council to pressure the syrian government while saying the armed opposition is stepping up its attacks. this as another massacre pulls the country closer to civil war with new items are still unable to verify the details of the atrocities. in a small irish town go back to their old currency and to save businesses from collapse as more people fear and. rizzoli heading down the drain that's amid reports spain will need at least forty billion euros in bailout money to boost its crisis hit banks. euro two thousand and twelve full time when it takes off laden was scandalous several european governments boycott the championships they say they are concerned about for human rights records and raises criminalization at club

level in postponed and ukraine will not attend the games in protest. oh that is all the hour with more dates up next the story of individuals who chose to fly for peace as some countries violated international nonproliferation treaties. the nuclear age is over sixty years old richard pretty cookie guy can describe exactly how an underground test was. rory one zero almost you couldn't hear anything there was no noise at all when the ground lifted up. we live under the threat of increasingly sophisticated weapons. in two thousand one hundred eighty eight states parties to the moon proliferation treaty signed on to a statement providing for an unequivocal undertaking to the top.