assad militants came in they tied people out they shot they stopped and. violence the syrian government has been recruiting that they've called help from local residents in in one of these villages asking for help off the militants took over the village and immediately after these they launched this operation and after they entered the village they discovered nine bodies of civilians and actually also a country to exploit the rebels are reporting about vast told the most extreme doest death toll given sort of fast and 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 his peace plan is not being implemented although they stop 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 and for size and 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 carved into college is the truth of the matter is as you know is that armed opposition groups only. only failed to comply to go from a big clear it was their intention to do so which to us is a very dangerous development to really go into productive development call fanaticized 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 the. very much against any kind of intervention other nations that are

backing rebels they are already interfering into serious internal affairs and not only syria is a gulf by the cult 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 a long running foreign meddling into syrian affairs 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 arrived at the exact same step that we were at before the mission began and the wait is almost over for millions of football fans across europe as the euro twenty 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. partridge. 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 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 program that on the b.b.c. a panorama program 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 the to 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 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 but serious trouble the referee decided to stop the match and this we 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 been delays over stadiums and infrastructure there are also problems in reported about hoteliers in ukraine that prices apparently attend. golding crease well this didn't impress say you wait for president michel platini he called some of these hotel years raucous he didn't mince his words but the watchword here is ukrainian hospitality they want this tournament story about to be remembered as one that was first of all everybody is

welcome all nations all creeds and to enjoy the football and the football or be the priority not the political issues not the social issues before. 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 they're struggling to make ends meet. have never afraid to speak to the speed of the. world the people accuse the government of ignoring them in the pursuit of power a report on that shortly. and nicaragua's 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 sources claim it could last for a bailout as early as this weekend madrid's credit score has been slashed one its

boring call soared close to the level that forced greece portugal and ireland to seek rescue but as eurozone powerhouse is trying to keep the single currency afloat one town is banking on the past to turn a profit nor 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 towards twenty points or fifty points whatever you spend we will give you the change of. which you can go and spend crossed. in the korea or go for a drink at the town it's. 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 their puts often stopping by for a haircut while they're here. a lot of people come from from there on from people who. have an obligation. there's an estimated two hundred eighty five million tucked away in draws and under a mattress is forgotten about ok to souvenirs when i joined the euro a decade ago they're no longer legal tender but would have a value of around two hundred forty million euros just a fraction of which would make a massive difference in crisis hit close the put 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 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 not just told us town it's the whole country has suffered with starting measures with the. new water charges which are common and shortly you household charge which came in this year with 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 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 norris myth r.t. closest ireland. 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 a 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 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 then we don't know what happens the interest rates get to a certain level they can't borrow stated 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. than what's the full interview with economist and politician mark invited in the next. or you can catch it right now on our web site online all the time r.t. dot com and one of them check out some of the stories we've lined up for you today including wrong pull son says he's now officially supporting the 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 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 about si dot com. political forces in egypt to decide on who will write the country's new

constitution that lasted nearly three months a special panel consisting of. over 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 . rest with numerous protests and demonstrations against the ruling army and demands for change for the end of next week a presidential election runoff which 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 pool reports. it took this father forty seven years to accumulate his wealth and just one week to lose a third of it. one morning opened this place and found three buffalo lying down they wouldn't eat or drink anything or houses in this village he 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 were too busy with the revolution to take much notice from 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 just love all egyptians say the situation has been worsened by a climate of corruption. in government employees. and so were a friend if very call these three business being nearly 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 rocket him people got afraid and stopped buying meat choosing instead to eat chicken and fish this push the price of poultry up and moving 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 people are waiting to hear if they can trust him enough. but they might be waiting a while after very formal and this has never affected the speed to this day to see all who are up the street or near the people who saw the fruits of the don't want sort of sales they protest by the heat that we have never seen. 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 same mubarak said that perhaps they thought their security the

regime security is the paramount most important issue for them so they spent. a lot of money on there was a lawful news holsworth our taxes disappeared there were a lot of corruption and with all this what is left for the actual improvement of 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 police here r.t. . 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 volleys could face penalties of around seven thousand euros let's not get more details marty you going to spin off. so you know what else does this

new york in time. will now it's official that the president has signed 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 only corresponds with wash and european standards and is aimed at protecting citizens from the radicals just to remind you the initial draft of this law was introduced after a large broadest rally in moscow ended with clashes between some of the protesters and the police we've seen. concrete flying around 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 paula in the future for 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 fines with some of the western european countries then the penalties and the fines they're all often much more severe for example look at france where the maximum five fine could reach forty five thousand euros or even up to three years of imprisonment. fifteen thousand germany.

the. united states. what we see. now twenty one minutes nearly in. some international news. eighteen 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 year no group has yet said it's behind the attack. fled from

a jail in northern afghanistan officials say they have recaptured sixteen of them with the launch. of detonating the explosives which destroyed. the. three. 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 the country's economy the pm insisted all safety measures in the event of another earthquake or tsunami. all fifty of japan's. 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 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. 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 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. twenty three happens past the hour 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 time of the wall street closes we're hearing is quote a real disaster for the single currency says one of the euro's founding fathers is thing spain is bigger than the greek irish and portuguese economies put together as you see the euro zone economies of falling on the markets there near a roubini expect greece to quit the euro whoever wins this month's elections in athens 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 the greece exit the euro zone thinking about actually going to be like nodding to a new government is going to try to get a form that it can on expression becoming so sustainable that they will exit and i would say that we couldn't do good for them as long as the exit is all of them. and means of them there are massive depression a shown that acts very comical the better story abroad restore its balance of course there'd be damage to the banks damage their savings of people in their banks and that's why they need more funding to make sure that he's not dissolved only now down and the contagion but as for eurozone is milder so it does not make a see it that way and it's fine so he's all of the only probably it's a manageable look on the bags and. you could know watch the full interview there on monday on all to us shares have swung into the black in the last hour there now

just slightly high off to losing in the morning over in new york and oil is heading for the longest weekly losing streak in thirty 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 thirteen years i've just said. that's not speculation as i was saying the u.s. and china made to moan so light sweet is now down on the eighty three brant on the ninety nine dollars per barrel and the euro is losing against the dollar if you can get the markets you have the six have had a bad day that breaks the winning streak for the day we can go to the exchange rate because the euro is losing against the dollar this hour and the russian ruble is losing against both major currencies off to also a strong week and drop today at the news and interviews all of the websites. daniel

thanks very much indeed for that daniel in the next hour in our team we're going to stay. with economic matters as we discussed if the euro has a dead end that's in crosstalk after the headlines stay with us from. kuwait in tolstoy's it's here. for going global. cooling the fire. log.

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discuss the future of the european union. for the euro with the greek economy in tatters and spain on the financial future of the monetary union looks anything but bright world leaders are calling for quick and decisive action to avoid. the european central bank has come out and said the fate of the currency.