the un urges both a syrian regime and the rebels to lay down arms to prevent a civil war as observers had to inspect the massacre side near the city of hama. they day for european football as a euro two thousand and twelve gets set to go but fair play as been dealt a blow with boycotts over human rights abuses and claims of racism. and eurozone and i fared as experts predict spain could ask for bail out this weekend but as desperate leaders scramble to save your old one irish town looks to its last currency for salvation. spain's impending bailout sends oil to a thirteen year losing streak record as washington warms of a euro driven global recession the business news is in twenty minutes.

five pm and the russian capital you're watching r t with me marina joshie the u.n. and it sound boy to syria want more pressure on him asking us to prevent the country from sliding into a full scale civil war but kofi annan also urged the increasingly aggressive rebel forces to lay down arms now this comes as un observers are preparing to visit a side of the latest massacre near the city of hama are these worries and oceanus covering events from the syrian capital. we have been able to speak to the chief of the press all face 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 off and then to 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 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 drew i saw admitted turns came in they were tied to people they shot they stopped and burned them 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 i have been calling on international community to put more pressure on damascus and i had a sad that he's peace plan. it's not been implemented although these time stressing that it's not being implemented by both sides and both sides both ground station 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 carding jihad is the truth of the matter is as you know is that the position groups only. do not only failed to comply to plan but they clear the it is their intention not to do so which is a very dangerous development to really go into productive development coffin and that's 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 interfering into syria is internal affairs and not only syria in 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 compromise saying that.

professional reporting from syria now amid concerns of outside forces adding fuel to the fire violence in syria the country's government has been blaming the radical islam a sect of so office and al qaida for being behind a series of massacres while we can discuss this further with middle east expert robert friends from university down robert thanks very much for being with us here in the program so there are fears that syria is sliding into sectarian violence was radical islam is joining the battle against assad so what do you make of this development. well. needless to say the situation there is reading daily and from looking at it from here in colorado far away what it really appears here is there's not going to be any kind of military solution to this and. a political solution shortly

is what should what's in what are the role of the as you call them the the salivation islamic fundamentalists year it has become increasingly. nasty and aggressive and provocative of course they don't operate on their own they're in close contact with the saudis send the toleration and in some level when you're talking about show you could tare policy in the middle east you you have to. have to talk about the united states which coordinates with the us so that they're playing a rather destructive rule but i think now why you thing that you're not a ses lining up was the same forces it criticizes what's raising behind that. well you know the history is history is kind of iraq ironic on the one hand here in the united states we hear so so much about radical islam and this is.

really islamophobia but if we look historically it will see that first the british and then the united states have long had times where this law makes fundamentalists whether it was should end the end of fifty's and egypt's trying to counter. nasr who or whether whether it's in afghanistan which is the most the flagrant example of that so at certain points in time they seem to coordinate rather well and at this point in time you know what is what's what's kind of the regional picture here that's pushing all this we have this historic development truly historic development the arab spring which which began in tunisia as well you know and i think it it took the united states and its allies. including in the region by surprise and they get it at the outset they really

didn't know what to do about it now what they're trying to do is to how to manage it so to speak and we see the kind of double standard of trial that how the united states is is dealing with the arab spring so in places like bahrain and yemen they're actively supporting those forces which are trying to crush the pressure the arab spring. in in tunisia in egypt it's slightly more nuanced but they're still worried about any kind of any kind of development that will go in the direction of challenging their economic and strategic policies and of course in syria we have thought. to have a we have a situation where on the one hand it's clear that. this regime has us considerable about that but she did it was she so the real the real question is . what direction is she going to go and in the future are the united states she

sure ears. a strategic player and it would like to change the political direction which is all right robert thanks very much indeed for bringing us your views here on r.t. that was robert prince talking to us from colorado the u.s. middle east expert. well you're watching r.t. life from moscow still had for you this hour egyptians are struggling to make ends meet. have never forgotten the speech to this day to the. world the people accuse their government i'll be going down in the pursuit of power our report on that shortly. i am a caracal is planning to build an alternative to the panama canal linking the atlantic and the pacific ocean so find out what countries are hoping to dive into the thirty billion dollar deal. how the wait is almost over for millions of

football fans across europe as the euro two thousand and twelve tournament kicks off this friday in warsaw however the championship hosted jointly by poland and ukraine has attracted criticism for both human rights violations as well as claims of racism most recently from the dutch national team are just a part of rich explains. 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 signing that they will boycott the tournament during the group stages 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 as you say racism has become a particular issue a dutch team based not in ukraine they're braced in krakow in poland just before

they come into play the game and they have they've had their training session 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 but racism 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 hate 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 defender sol 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 two eastern europe he said he wouldn't risk it for fear of coming back in the coffin of the referee has the right to stop the game should any player suffer any kind of abuse and not just have been stopped pulled a 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

night a bit serious trouble the referee decided to stop the match and this to me were awarded a three nil victory ukraine and poland have had five years to prepare for the have been problems these of being reported there's been delays over stadiums and infrastructure there are also problems reported about hotel use in ukraine that prices apparently attend. folding crease well this didn't impress the say you wait for president michel platini he called some of these hoteliers raucous he didn't mince his words but the watchword here is ukrainian hospitality they want this tournament to remain to be remembered as one that was his first of all 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. keep part of their our sports team has all latest developments for us from ukraine and poland including rankin's com. in just over five hours time russia will start their euro campaign against the czech republic. does have

a fully fit squad to choose from the main question being who will lead the front line for russia because they do enjoy an embarrassment of riches at the moment up front are more on the build up from poland in half an hour. now spain is on the ads of a financial abyss as easy as sources claim it could ask for a bailout as early as this weekend madrid's credit score has been slashed wads borrowing cause soared close to the level that forced greece portugal and ireland to seek rescue but as euro zone powerhouses try to keep the single currency afloat one irish town is banking on the past to turn a profit or it is laura smith reports. it's a blast from the past as this customer uses the irish punt to pay for 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 whatever you spend or fifty point whatever you spend we will give you a change of tone his tone voters which you can spend crossroad in super value on the create note or go for a drink up the tone it's it's a great scheme for the child 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 a lot of people come from cross border from fast especially around from people from the phantoms from the functions on us as a complication months women can ask on. their phone to spit out there's an estimated two hundred eighty five million puns tucked away in draws and under mattresses forgotten about ok to souvenirs when arlen 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 letter. turn a profit it's not just told us turns the whole country is so short with the start of the measures with the. new water charges which are common in shortly you household charge which which came in this year with increase every year. there was a two percent hike up to twenty three percent of the point of sale tax which we

have to do 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 fate of the euro hangs in the balance clueless may not be alone in looking back for its future you're a smith closeness and well remember all the latest stories are also on our website r t v dot com here's a taste of what's there for you right now. ron paul's son says he's now officially supporting g.o.p. front runner mitt romney as a party's ultimate candidate to face democrat barack obama in the presidential election even though his father has always been his first choice. and residents of a scottish village called dull and the american town of boring are trying not to live up to their names so we can find out how they do that at r.t. dot com. now political forces in egypt have decided on who will

write the country's new constitution and that lasted nearly three months a special panel consisting of one hundred members of parliament will be tasked with the job military councils a span of the constitution when they took power in the wake of last year's uprising that toppled president hosni mubarak the country has since plunged into unrest with numerous protests and demonstrations against the ruling army and demands for change at the end of next week there will be a presidential election runoff in which a muslim brotherhood candidate faces mubarak's former prime minister while quality asians are struggling for power to pay little attention to the problems and needs of people as polls leader now reports. the it took this farm of forty seven years to accumulate his wealth and just one week to lose a third of it ramit you have. i just one morning opened this place and found three buffalo lying down they wouldn't eat or drink anything all the houses in this village all the farmers here lost cattle within a month

a foot in mouth disease killed thousands of cattle buffalo sheep and other livestock across egypt in march the united nations 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 our 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. and their so corrupt friend gave very poor the three business and 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 and people got afraid and stopped buying meat choosing instead to eat chicken and fish this pushed the price of poultry up by more than fifty percent

while the cost of meat remained the same hussein says he's lost sixty percent of his business and is struggling to make ends meet the. things keep getting worse no one's buying from me and i'm more people are waiting to hear if they can trust them a lot. but they might be waiting a while if ther very for the roof and this has never affected the speed to this day to see all corrupted state or new the people who show difference we don't know what it is or fails 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. said that perhaps the security

regime security the paramount most important issue for them so they spent. a lot of money on there was a lot of news holes our taxes disappear there were a lot of corruption and with all this what is left for actual improvement of service is. minor and so behind the country's political jockeying is an unfolding public health disaster with potentially much larger implications for egypt and what happens on the political front policy r.t. . now take a look at some other stories from around the world a bomb attack on a bus carrying government staff has killed eighteen and wanted dozens in northwest pakistan the vehicle was near the sea off peshawar when the bomb inside it exploded the blast was the latest reminder of active militancy in the region spot

a significant drop in violence over the past years no group has yet said it is behind the attacks. about thirty prisoners including taliban fighters have fled from a jail in northern afghanistan officials say they have recaptured sixteen of them whereas the other is still at large and made to scape after detonating an explosive which destroyed a watchtower guards that opened fire on the jail breakers killing three and injuring dozens. japan's prime minister said two nuclear reactors inactive sense of oshima disaster must be restarted the move will help to protect jobs and boost the country's economy the pm insisted all safety measures in the event of another earthquake or tsunami have been undertaken while all fifty of japan's workable reactors have been offline since the world's second worst nuclear crisis hit the country last year. u.n. nuclear watchdog held talks with iran over its controversial nuclear program the

agency wants to get greater access to the country's military sites that are suspected of carrying out atomic test iran insists its program is for peaceful purposes the meeting comes before broader talks later this month in moscow. governments planning to build a thirty billion dollar trade route between the atlantic and the pacific oceans to rival the panama canal several countries including russia are vying for the chance to fund the plan 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 nicaragua 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. all right now we're crossing straight to the world of business was daniel bushell and it looks like there are clouds on the euro zone horizon as spain well ask for an eight year bailout to more tell us more than your sources in brussels say its banks can no longer deal with the property

loans on spanish books last night spain's rating was cut to near junk status most you markets down on the news both. cent lower this go to do neural roubini expects greece to quit the euro whoever wins this month's elections but the merger who predicted the meltdown in two thousand it's is news worried what will happen to people savings. i would say the euro by next year and i would say there is a probability that greece exit the euro zone thinking about surely going to be now into a new government is going to try to form. an explanation becoming sustainable the pain will exit and i would say that it could be good for them as well as bags it is all of them. and means of them there are massive differentiation on barack's very common. growth story ballance of course they'll be damaged the banks damage their savings or people in the banks and that's why they need more funding to make sure that it's not disorderly meltdown and the contagion of the rest of the eurozone is

smaller so it is than they can see it that way and it's fine so he's orderly probably. it's a manageable look at the bags and you can see the full interview with no roubini all monday here on altie let's check exchange rates the euro is losing against the dollar on the euro zone news on the russian ruble is once again retreating against both major currencies russian markets are following the world situation crude is heading for its longest losing streak which isn't helping the situation in the longest losing streak in more than thirty years for the price now that's on the generally bad global situation also speculation the economies of china and the u.s. will slow down on falling demand. friendly from france's. has been negotiations for a long time and has been aggressively moving into new markets in february it's agreed to buy back from austria as volkswagen and police have started

a case against the so-called twenty eleven ponzi scheme scam game of road he says this time is different because the website now admits it's a ponzi scheme. committed suicide at the weekend off to losing all his money in the ninety's up to fifty million dollars that they were coming in for the scheme until it collapsed all global finance by money itself or pyramid schemes because they're not backed by anything today with the opening bell on wall street is next andy and we are thanks very much indeed daniel for this update well i'll be back shortly away as an update on our top story students here in. the.

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