all. the un urges both the syrian regime and the rebels to lay down arms to prevent a civil war as observers head to inspect the massacre site near the city of hama. a big day for european football as the euro prepares to kick off but fair play has been dealt a blow with boycotts over human rights abuses in claims of racism. and eurozone on a knife edge as experts predict spain get asked for a bailout as soon as this evening but it's desperate leaders scramble to save the euro one irish town looks to its last currency for salvation. to go to a big euro's fourth biggest economy to be out for the first time sources in brussels says it will wait till wall street closes to make the announcement we'll have more

business in a twenty minute. run the clock around the world international news and comment live from moscow the un and its envoy to syria looking for ways to put more pressure on damascus to prevent the country from sliding into a full scale civil war but kofi annan also urged increasingly aggressive rebel forces to lay down arms the opposition claim a sad strips of shelled the city and are preparing to storm an area controlled by the rebels this is teams of u.n. observers are visiting the site of the latest massacre in the city of hama to try and establish who is to blame for the deaths of up to one hundred people were if an ocean reports now from syria. we've been hearing two different takes from the opposition and from the syrian government the opposition is claiming is that the syrian army shelled peaceful farming village in central syria and after that

alleged militants came in they tied people. they shot they stopped and in an orgy of violence the syrian government has been recruiting that they've called help from local residents in in one of these villages asking for help after militants took over the village and immediately after these call it a long 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 dog's death toll given so far stones that's almost one hundred dad and this is the figure that's been picked up by almost all the international media has 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 i have been calling on international community to put more pressure on damascus and i had

a sad that his peace plan is not been implemented although these time stressing that it's not being implemented by both sides and both sides both ground opposition and syrian government are responsible for what's going on at the same time emphasizing this is. the responsibility of the syrian 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 clear who exactly is behind what it contains and carved into hard is the truth of the matter is as you know is that the position groups only. only failed to comply to. clear the that was their intention not to do so which is a very dangerous development to really go into productive development coffin and size 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 into the bench. other nations that are backing rebels they are already interfering into serious internal affairs and not only syria is a gulf by the conflict but also the international community is shaken by this conflict and is very much divided and there is no compromising that. 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 syrian affairs but i think it's important for us to remember that this is not just the the endpoint 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 torment kicks off in warsaw however the championship has to 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. a partridge. 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 saying that they will boycott the tournament during the group stages this is g.-u. to the alleged mistreatment of the imprisoned former prime minister yulia timoshenko who's now. 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 they gave and they have they got 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 salt campbell and he looked at these pictures and said that he an 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 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 we 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 pushing up their prices apparently a ten. bolding 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 first of all everybody is welcome of all nations all creeds and to enjoy the football and the football or be the priority not the political issues not the social issues the focus. then most sports team will have the very latest developments for you from ukraine and poland in just over an hour from now well still ahead for you this gyptian struggling to make ends meet. afraid to speak to the people of the. world the people accuse the government of ignoring them in the pursuit of power a report on that shortly. and nicaragua is planning to build an alternative to the panama canal linking the atlantic and the pacific oceans find out what countries are hoping to dive into the thirty billion dollars deal. the first spain is on the edge of a financial abyss is used sources claim it could ask for

a bailout as early as this weekend madrid's credit score has been slashed while its boring course soared close to the level that forced greece portugal and ireland to seek rescue but as eurozone powerhouses try to keep the single currency afloat one town is banking on the past to turn a profit parties nor smith reports. it's a blast from the past as this customer uses the irish punt to pay for some every day 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 then go and spend cross the road and super value on the credit note or go for a drink up the town it's it's a great scheme for the time 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 points often stopping by for a haircut while they're here. a lot of people come from across the border from all about us especially our own from people from no phantom spend their aunts and so on us have a complication mountain men can have gotten him in the front 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 then 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 pope's game 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 premise

is empty it's a scene that's repeated in small towns and biggest cities throughout. 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. new water charges which are common and shortly charge which will increase every year. there was a two percent hike twenty three percent in the point of sale tax which had. 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 nor a smith r.t. and. the international monetary fund says spanish banks need at least forty billion

euros to survive economist and politician mark vice brought believes the eurozone is caught in the downward spiral. but they use clear the reason they're asking for 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 debts of spain and italy are enormous and that's what they're worried about 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 then we don't know what happens the interest rates get

to a certain level they can't borrow stayed on private markets anymore then they have to go to the european authorities for money and then then there's maybe debt restructuring the bank losses all the things that happen with greece but on a much bigger scale. what's the full interview with economist and politician market in the next. or you can catch it right now on our web site online all the time r.t. dot com and while you're there check out some other stories we've lined up for you today including wrong pool son says he's now officially supporting the republican front runner mitt romney as the party's ultimate candide to face democrat barack obama in the presidential election even though his father has always been his first child. was one of the moments residents of a scottish village called dull and the american town of boring a try not to live up to their names find out how. dot com.

political forces in egypt decided on who will write the country's new constitution that lasted nearly three months a special panel consisting of the. one hundred members of parliament will be tasked 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 is since plugged into one rest with numerous protests and demonstrations against the ruling army and demands for change the end of next week well the presidential election runoff which a muslim brotherhood candidate faces former prime minister but while politicians are struggling for power they pay little attention to the problems and needs of the people as paulson reports. it took this farmer forty seven years to accumulate his wealth and just one week to lose a third of it. that's the one morning open this place and found three buffalo lying down they wouldn't eat or drink anything all the houses in this village the farmers

here lost cattle within a month 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 . that the government did not do anything. their own one by one and no one does anything. egyptians say the situation has been worsened by a climate of corruption. in government employees. and we saw corruption and it's very cold these three business and need to be free to do anything when it was found out a new strain on the disease had hit egypt it seemed heart rates soaring and prices rocketing and people got afraid and stopped buying meat choosing instead to eat

chicken and fish this push 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 either or 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 this day to see all who are the only the people who show difference the don't want to sort of sightings 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 the right. the

previous regimes saying. 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 were our taxes disappeared there were a lot of corruption and with all this what is left for the actual improvement of services 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. demonstrators breaking the protest regulations here in russia will now have to pay higher fines after a lengthy parliamentary debate president putin has signed the bill into law now people guilty of violations could face penalties of around seven thousand euros

let's not get more details from r.t. even to skin off. so you know what else does this new law in time. called now it's official that the president to sign it the fines for violating the rules of taking part in mass rallies have been significantly increased from the seventy year olds earlier up to seven thousand euros now or up to two hundred hours of community service for average citizens and up to fourteen thousand euros for officials despite criticism from the opposition the president clinton said that he thinks this law fully corresponds with western european standards and is aimed at protecting citizens from the radicals just to remind you of the initial draft of this law was introduced after a large protest rally in moscow ended with clashes between some of the protesters and the police we've seen. this is a concrete flying around and small needs and injuries on both sides and also

president putin added that he's going to monitor how this all works out he's waiting for comments from judges and said that it is possible that the law will get back to paul and in the future for a possible amendments. you know how does this law in russia compared to the ones in force in europe in the u.s. . but actually if we just compare the figures of the finds with some of the western european countries then the penalties and the fines they're all often much more severe for example let's look at france where the maximum five fine could reach forty five thousand euros or even up to three years of imprisonment. fifteen thousand euros in germany or even up to seventy five thousand euros in switzerland so obviously there are much higher than the ones which have been just fixed now.

and also we. just. saw the police war. well often if you look at how the student protests were dispersed in. some of the camps in the united states often. much more aggressively than what we see. people just rallies here in russia. thanks very much indeed. now twenty one minutes nearly past the hour here in moscow let's have a look at some other international news in brief. a bomb attack on a bus carrying government staff has killed eighteen and wounded dozens in northwest pakistan the vehicle was near the city of peshawar when the bomb hidden inside it exploded the blast was the act of militancy in the region despite a significant drop in violence over the past years no group has yet said it's

behind the attack. clearing taliban fighters of fled from a jail in northern afghanistan officials say they have recaptured sixteen of them with the others still at large in detonating the explosives which destroyed guards then opened fire on the job killing three and injuring dozens. japan's prime minister said the two nuclear 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 the pm insisted all safety measures in the event of another earthquake or tsunami have been undertaken all fifty of japan's workable reactors have been offline since the world's second worst nuclear crisis hit the. 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 in moscow. the nicaraguan 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. has more the us 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 and 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 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. twenty three hoping to pass the time for business daniel and the clock is now taking on spain's bailout the country that was too big to fail may request exactly that at ten pm brussels top of the wall street closes we're hearing a real disaster for the single currency says one of the euro's founding fathers spain is bigger than the greek irish and portuguese economies put together you see the euro zone economies are falling all the markets the new roubini expect greece

to quit the euro whoever wins this month's elections man who predicted the economic meltdown in two thousand and eight says he's worried what will happen to people savings i would say that you know by now. i would say there is at least the probability that greece exit the euro zone thinking about actually going to be like now into a new government as another try to reform and on expression becoming so sustainable that they will exit and i would say that it couldn't do good for them as long as baggs it does all of them. and means that then there are massive depression a shown that acts for a common. growth restore its balance of course they'll be damaged the banks damage the savings of people in the banks and that's why they need more funding to make sure that there is not this orderly meltdown and the contagion of the rest of the eurozone is smaller so it is that nigga see it that way and it's fine so he's all of the really probably it's a manageable look on the bags of. you can now watch the full interview there on

monday on r.t. u.s. shares have swung into the black in the last hour the now just slightly high off the losing in the morning over in new york and oil is heading for the longest week losing streak in thirteen years that's all speculation the world's biggest crude consumers 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 so crude is heading for its longest weekly losing streak in thirteen years i just said. that's not speculation as i was saying that the u.s. and china may cut demand so light sweet is now down on the eighty three brant under ninety nine dollars per barrel and the euro is losing against the dollar there so if you can get the markets you have the t s m i six have had a bad day that breaks the winning streak for the day we can go to the exchange rate because the the euro is losing against the dollar this hour and the russian ruble is losing against both major currencies off to also

a strong weak and dropped today at the news and interviews on the website. daniel thanks very much indeed for a lot more from daniel in the next iron r.t. and we're going to stay with economic matters as we discuss if the euro has it's a dead end that's in crosstalk after the headlines stay with us from. the coup in full starting here. for going global and

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