still carrying out a so-called clearance operation in the area off to 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 van and observers were been hearing 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 crew i saw admitted turns eighteen they were tied to people they shot they starved and burned in an orgy of violence the syrian government has been reporting that they've got a call from local residents in one of these villages asking for help after militants took over the village and immediately after these call they operate and after they entered the village they discovered nine bodies of civilians and it's actually also contradicts what the rebels are

a fortune about death told 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 call for and have been calling on international community to put more pressure on damascus and i had a sad that he's peace plan is not being implemented although these time stressing that it's not being implemented by both sides and both sides both rounded up a station and syrian government are responsible for what's going on at the same time emphasizing this is. it 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 clear who is. exactly is behind what it

contains and carving to heart 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 would be clear the it was their intention not to do so which to us is a very dangerous development a very counterproductive development coffin and that's at 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 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 compromise saying that. refashion 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 rob or 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 us and so what do you make of this development. well. needless to say the situation there is rooted in daily and from looking at it from here in colorado far away but it really appears there 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 water the role of the as you call them the the salivation and islamic fundamentalists share it has become increasingly.

nasty and aggressive and productive of course they don't operate on their own they're in close contact with those shaadi send the ataris and and some level when you're talking about show you could carry a 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 i think the united states lining up was the same forces it criticizes what's reason 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 we'll 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. nasser who over 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 to manage it so to speak

and we see a kind of double standard of how they 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 fresh the arab spring. in tunisia and 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. you know we have a we have a situation where on the one hand it's clear that. this regime could shatter all about them but she did it was she so the real the real question is what direction is she going to go in the future are the united states she sure is. a strategic player and would like to change the political direction all right

robert thanks very much indeed for a bringing us your views here on r.t. that was robert prince talking to us from colorado the u.s. middle east expert. are you watching r.t. life from moscow still have for you this hour egyptians are struggling to make ends meet. ruth was never afraid to speak to the people to the. world the people accuse their government of going down in the pursuit of power our report on that shortly. i am a karada was 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 par verge explains. the issue as you say is not really about sports so much in football it's about politics because the u.k. government have joined the french government in signs 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 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 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 timer on the program called stadiums of hate which highlighted club level particular problems with racism and anti-semitism in poland and ukraine and these pictures were showing to the england former captain and defender salt 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 for 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 of a serious trouble the referee decided to stop the match and this to me were awarded

a three no victory ukraine and poland have had five years to prepare for the 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 attend. folding crease well this didn't impress the say you a for president michel platini he called some of these hoteliers wrote this 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. there our sports team has all latest developments for us from ukraine and poland including rankin's com. just over five hours time russia will start their euro campaign against the czech republic to go because it 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 more on the build up from poland in half an hour. now spain is on the ads of a financial abyss as either sources claim it could ask for a bailout as early as this weekend madrid's credit score has been slashed while it's boring 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 pounds whatever you

spend we will give you the change of tone this time voters which you can spend cross the road in super value on the career or go for a drink up the town 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 punts often stopping by for a haircut while they're here oh yeah a lot of people come from from about fast especially around from people from the phantoms down the functions on us have an obligation mountain can have him in that event to get out there's an estimated two hundred eighty five million tucked away in draws and under a mattress is forgotten about ok to souvenirs when 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 homes the whole country is so forth with the start of 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 of the point of sale tax which we have to do something something to improve the situation shopkeepers say going back

to the point isn't a political statement it's a survival tactic and as the face of the euro hangs in the balance clueless may not be alone in looking back for its future euro smith r.t. closest 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 is 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 an age of 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 and while politicians are struggling for power to pay little attention to the problems and needs of people as balls they are now reports. it took this more than forty seven years to accumulate his wealth and just one week to lose a third of its moment. 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 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 he gyptian 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 all egyptians say the situation has been worsened by a climate of corruption. in government employees. and so corruption give very call the three business being needy 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 that's 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 i'm more people are waiting to hear if they can trust them a lot. but they might be waiting a while after very for the roof and this has never affected the speed to this day to see all who are up the street or new the people who show difference we don't know what sort of sales they protest by this the 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 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 were our taxes disappear there were a lot of corruption and with all this what is left for actually improvement of 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 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 and northwest pakistan a 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 despite a significant drop in violence over the past years no group has yet said it is behind the attack. 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 deal 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. 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 meeting comes before a broader talks later this month in moscow. government's 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 not great 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 eurozone 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 junk status most e.u. markets down on the news both. said lower. to do nurul roubini expects

greece to quit the euro whoever wins this month's elections but the man who predicted the meltdown in two thousand and eight says he's worried what will happen to people savings. i would say that you know by next year and i would say there is a probability that greece exit the euro zone thinking about it surely even if they elect to a government that is going to try to reform. and on exploration becoming sustainable . and i would say that it could be good for them as long as bags is all of them. and means of them there are mass immigration nation on barack's for example the restore growth story ballance of course they'll be damaged the banks damaged their savings of people in the banks and that's why they need more funding to make sure that he's not dissolved in the meltdown and the contagion but as the eurozone smaller so it is done they can see it that way and it's so nice all of the only

probably. to manage a ball on the bags and you can see the full interview with no roubini or monday here on or to list check exchange rates the euro is losing against the dollar on the eurozone news and the russian ruble is once again retreating against both major currencies russian markets are following the world situation crude is heading for its longest we losing streak which isn't helping the situation you longest losing streak in more than thirteen 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 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 but courts only stepped in when a sochi man committed suicide at the weekend after 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 in india we are thanks very much indeed daniel for this update well i'll be back shortly aware of. update our top story stay with us here in our.

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the watching are the line from moscow reminder of the top stories both the syrian regime and the rebels to lay down arms to prevent the country from sliding into a full scale civil war this comes as the un observers are set to visit the side of the latest massacre near the city of hama. a day for european football as a euro two thousand and twelve gets set to start but fair play has been dealt a blow with boycotts over human rights abuses and claims of racism most recently from the dutch national team. and euro zone on a knife there is an expert's predict spain could soon ask for a bailout but has a huge powerhouses shot of the single currency float one i wish towns banking on the past a term property. tax yes economists and politicians mark wise broad tells r.t.

about just what seems to be going wrong in europe. thank you for joining us on r.t. i want to start with the g. twenty promise to boost the i.m.f. lending resources with over four hundred thirty billion dollars. yet the i.m.f. steering committee said that these new resources will not be used for a particular reason do you think this is their response to the concerns that this money will be used to bail out the eurozone i think it's clear the reason they're asking for a new resources for europe they would have enough if it was for the other countries it's only europe or the big money i mean the deaths of spain and italy are enormous and that's what they're worried about even if there were only portugal and ireland and greece. they wouldn't really be that worried it's really spain and italy.