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 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 tied people up they shot they stopped and burned in the 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 response and 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 have been here it from new york from the u.n. security council that both. sides in 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 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 wrong 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 clear who exactly is behind what it contains and cause them to harvest the truth of the murders as you know is the position groups. only. not only failed to comply to plan but they had

to clear the it was their intention not to do so which is a very dangerous development of any counterproductive development call fanaticized that's 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 is shaken by this conflict and is very much divided and there is still no compromise saying that the syrian opposition claim. troops have shelled the city of homs and are preparing to storm an area controlled by the rebels james corbet editor of the independent news website the colbert report says the apparent failure of the u.n.

peace plan is the result of long running foreign meddling into syria for. but i think it's important for us to remember that this is not just the the end point of one year of political instability in syria but really a number of years of all sorts of intervention that's been taking place in syria to try to destabilize the assad government for a number of years now from a number of different outside forces unfortunately there really doesn't seem to be a deciding factor in a lot of this because every negotiator at the table so to speak in the seat in the international community at any rate seems to have something invested in the outcome of this it doesn't seem likely at this point it doesn't seem that the u.n. observer mission is going to have any effect on the situation all it seems to have done is to put this entire dispute into a political process that that sends it down a few months further down the road but i think we're ultimately at the same point basically that we were before the observer mission really we just to arrive at the exact same step that we were at before the mission began. 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 was to jointly by poland and ukraine as it tried to criticism for both human rights violations as well as claims of racism most recently from the dutch national team a partridge explains. the issue as you say is not really about sports so much in football it's about politics because the u.k. governments have joined the french government in saying that they will boycott the tournament during the group stages this is g u two the alleged mistreatment of the imprisoned former prime minister yulia timoshenko. well 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 their game and they have a 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 on the reports after they went to see auschwitz but racism is particularly a topic in england because last week there was broadcast a programme 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 why 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 and now the referee has the right to stop the game should any player suffer any kind of abuse and matches have been stopped before the has been a president during the qualifying games where italy played serbia in general in october two thousand and ten and after severe found trouble not to study the race

nature but serious trouble the referee 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 have been reported there's been delays over stadiums and infrastructure there are also problems reported about hotel use in ukraine prices apparently a ten. golding crease well this didn't impress the say you wait for president michel platini he called some of these hoteliers rough as 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 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 the. key part is that all sports team will have the very latest developments for you from ukraine and poland throughout the day. also ahead for you that egyptians are struggling to make ends meet. have. preferred to speak to fifty to give the. world the

people accuse the government of ignoring them in the pursuit of power a report on that very shortly. and look around you is planning to build an alternative to the panama canal linking the atlantic and the pacific oceans of fun i want to countries are hoping to dive into the billion dollar deal. there are stories to come but first spain is on the edge of a financial abyss sources claim it could ask for a bailout as early as this weekend madrid's credit score has been slashed on its boring cost soared to close to the level that forced greece portugal and ireland to seek rescue but as eurozone is trying to keep the single currency afloat one town is banking on the past to turn a profit fourteen's norse myth. 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 points or fifty point we would get changes. and cross the road. or go for a drink it's. for the time it means all the money. 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. often stopping by for a haircut while they're here. a lot of people coming from from. that are on from people. there's an estimated two hundred eighty five million tucked away in draws and under

mattresses 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. the per scheme has undoubtedly boosted the local economy but the ravages of the economic crash is 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 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 profit a. it's it's not just told us town it's the whole country has suffered with starting measures with a. new water charge a source of common shorty's you household charge which which came in this year will

increase every year. there was a two percent hike up to twenty three percent in the point of sale tax which we have to do something something to improve the situation so keep it 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 it speech norris made closest island the international monetary fund says spanish banks need at least forty billion euros to survive economist turned politician mark weisbrot believes the eurozone is caught in a downward spiral. but 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 where the big money i mean the debts of spain and italy are enormous and that's what they're worried if there aren't any big risks to the global economy other than what the europeans are doing to themselves and that's

really what it is it's a self-inflicted recession that they're in right now if the recession continues the deeper and more importantly if these governments do what they're being instructed to do by the european authorities that would be the european central bank the european commission and the i.m.f. if they actually tighten their budgets further cut spending further they're going to go deeper into recession and then we don't know what happens the interest rates get to a certain level they can't borrow sustainably on private markets anymore then they have to go to the european authorities for money and then then there's maybe debt restructuring bank losses all the things that happen with greece but on a much bigger scale. and you can watch the full interview with economist and politician mark vice brought throughout the day here. or of course you can catch it right now on our web site. and while you're there check out some of the stories we've lined up for you

today including ron paul song says he is now officially supporting republican front runner mitt romney as the 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. the american town boring but trying to live up to their names. at all to. see.

the official altie application. from the. video. and. now in the palm of your. home. fifty minutes past political forces in egypt to decide who will write the country's new constitution that lasted nearly three months a special panel consisting of one hundred members of parliament will be tossed with the job egypt's military council suspended 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 one rest with numerous protests. demonstrations against the ruling army and demands for change next week will be a presidential election runoff in which a muslim brotherhood candidate faces mubarak's prime minister but while politicians

are struggling for power they pay little attention to the problems and needs of the people. it took this famine forty seven years to accumulate his wealth and just one week to lose a third of it. i just one morning opened this place and found three buffalo lying down they wouldn't eat or drink anything near the houses in this village not a pharmacy 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 to kid a catastrophe and mourned the epidemic could threaten human food supplies far and wide but egypt and politicians would too busy with 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 is low cost egypt should say the situation has been worsened by a climate of corruption. in government employees are. under

so corruption is very poor these mean 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 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 getting worse no one's buying from me. people are waiting to hear if they can trust them. but they might be waiting a while after very for me and this has never affected the speed to see or were the only the people who saw difference the don't know what

sort of flattens they protest by this date that 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 saying mubarak said that perhaps they thought their security the regime security the paramount most important issue for them so they spent. a lot of money on there was a lot of news holes where our taxes disappeared there were a lot of corruption and with all this what is left for the extra improvement au-prince services was 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. international news in. a bomb attack on a bus carrying government has killed eighteen and wounded dozens of northwest pakistan near the city of peshawar when the bomb hidden 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's. about thirty prisoners including taliban fighters are fled from a jail in northern afghanistan officials say they've captured sixteen of them with the other still at large in detonating an explosive which destroyed. guards then opened fire on the job killing three and injuring dozens. japan's prime minister. reactors in active since the fukushima disaster must be restarted he added that the

move will help to protect jobs and boost the country's economy pm insisted all safety measures in the event of another earthquake or tsunami have been undertaken all fifty of japan's workable reactors of. nuclear crisis hit the country last year . the 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 tests iran insists its program is for peaceful purposes the meeting comes before broader talks later this month here and. the government is 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. 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. time for business now daniel

there is in the business news room people are eating less hamburgers in the economic gloom tell us more mcdonald's has just won revenues will fall it blames the global downturn in the opening minutes in new york its shares have already slumped two and a half percent on the news the euro situation is also weighing on wall street as you can see both of them were slightly lower in the first hour of trade france has cut its growth forecast for the first time since its two thousand and nine recession the cac currant in paris is down the percent worse than london and frankfurt and dr doom the ribena expects greece to quit the euro whoever wins this month's elections in athens but the man who predicted the meltdown in two thousand and eight said he's worried what will happen to people savings you can watch the full interview on monday on r.t. . i would say there you are by next. i would say there is at least a probability that greece exit the euro zone thinking about actually going to be like nodding to a new government as another try to get

a form ready and on expression becoming a sustainable that they will exit and i would say that we couldn't do good for them as long as baggs it is all of them. and means of them there are massive differentiation on their acts were a combo of the better story good or restore its balance of course they'll be damaged the banks damaged their savings the people in the banks and that's why they need more funding to make sure that it's not dissolved in the meltdown and the contagion but as the eurozone is done niggas see it that way and it's fine so nice all of the only probably it's a manager ball on the bags of. oil is heading for its longest weekly losing streak in thirteen years that's all speculation the world's biggest crude consumers that china and the u.s. will use less petrol in the slowdown washington says it needs to assess the risk from u.s. budget cuts before approving more stimulus that's not good news either so all is now at a six week low crude two dollars down just for today

a load that sending energy stocks tumbling here remorse go which has broken this week's winning streak if we can get the most go rates up at the moment just in the last few minutes of trade as we can see that the old t. s. is down almost two percent more six overhaul four percent down this hour the euro is losing against the toll on the bad news from france underbrush roubles once again retreating against both major currencies east europe top lender meanwhile has bought them in spain from france's region see a blank so we're going to aggressively moving into new markets in february it's agreed to by v. vi from austria in the default blanken and traditions of the first calling millions of people of their life savings police have started finally a case against the so-called m m m twenty eleven. game of road he says this times different because their website. it's a ponzi scheme. commits suicide at the weekend off the wrist as a result of losing all his money in the ninety's fifty million dollars of who were

coming into the scheme until it collapsed he says that all global finance is a pyramid scheme that's his excuse bill i was surprised. and i wonder what the now that's cheap with you you raise a good question that i've no idea what i can say that's probably just food for thought and we'll think about that a bit later thank you very much. and on the way here why some countries are trying to perfect a weapon that threatens to wipe out civilization that will be off the headlines in a few moments.

i'm sure all of our got a story are out about this crazy lady with a convertible that. every time she. was on death row for nineteen years right there. that a lot of to say they don't quite understand that because we might need to stay. friends society has condemned these people as less than human it is necessary to punish crime everything we do to punish crime is unpleasant. but it needs to be done nobody wants to be linked to the nazis but the historical antecedents of the american death penalty today come in large part from the nazis and the saddest part is.

with the end of the boer war and the going away of the soviet union many people thought that nuclear weapons disappeared the risk is not zero that something might be going off by mistake especially a lot of sounds of the nuclear weapons on hair trigger alert. but because of a difference to use it as a threat all as an actual weapon you know if you keep spending a trillion dollars

a year on weapons of venture you're going to blow everybody up you you know people are dying from these weapons but until we actually see it people don't wake up to a new flu weapons or a bill. that represents all the firepower of the second world war and this second sound is the equivalent firepower of the world's nuclear arsenal today. sigrid laboratory to mccurry was able to build the old most sophisticated robot which on fortunately doesn't give a darn about anything james mission to teach music creation why it should care about humans or ingredients which is why you should care only.

the un has both the syrian regime and the rebels to lay down. the country from sliding into a full scale civil war this comes as you are visiting the start of the latest massacre in the city of hama. a big day for european football is a year of twenty twelve. has been dealt a blow with. the human rights abuses and claims of racism most recently from the national team. that is trying to keep the single currency afloat one is banking on the past to turn a profit. that's in the news too for the moment we'll be back with more in the meantime it's a weapon that endangers our very existence yet some countries choose to boost their nuclear arsenals instead of fighting for peace a special report next on. the fall out from the

french tests went beyond the polynesian islands they caused outrage in new zealand which took the lead in the anti-nuclear movement and became a black sheep among western countries yes unlike any other country new zealand refused to rely on nuclear weapons for its security but here nuclear technology is banned it's the law i think a lot of the young people feel proud about new zealand especially for a policy that people have come of complacent and feel as foreign with saif there are these other issues here i mean a lot of people say people in the peace movement has had be sent out of names graveyards resounds and that's what people say like. even in new zealand it's difficult to find young people concerned about this issue they are more sensitive to the melting of the antarctic and he wants to revitalize the ageing pacifist movement.