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the un and its envoy to syria looking for ways to put additional pressure on damascus to prevent the country from sliding into a full scale civil war and also urge the rebel forces to lay down their arms the opposition meanwhile claim assad's troops are shelled a rebel controlled area in the city of homs clashes between troops and opposition fighters have been reported in damascus this is teams of u.n. observers a visiting the site of the latest massacre near the city of hama to try to establish who is to blame for the deaths of up to one hundred people. are reports now from syria. we've been hearing two different takes from the opposition and from the syrian government the opposition's claim is that the syrian army shelled to peaceful farming village in central syria and after that alleged through assad middletons came in they tied people up they shot they stopped and in an orgy of violence the syrian government has been recruiting that they've got from local

residents in in one of these villages asking for help after militants took over the village and immediately after these call they launched this operation and after they entered the village they discovered nine bodies of civilians and it's actually also contradicts what the rebels are reporting about death toll the most extreme 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 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 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 in opposition and syrian government are responsible for what's going on at the same

time into the size and this is. the responsibility of the syrian foreign teams to and the violence in their country both u.s. and international officials have recognized that the reason a third force operating here in syria and it's not give clear who exactly is behind what it contains and carving to hard is the truth of the matter is as you know is the opposition groups. who failed to comply to. clear the. which is a very dangerous development of a girl and a productive development coffin 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. 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 thin and goals by the constant but also the international community is shaken by this conflict and is very much divided and there is no compromise saying that. concerns of outside forces fueling the violence in syria the country's government has been blaming the radical islamist sect of salafi. for bloodshed who in turn have powerful backing since middle east expert robert prince. the role of that as you call them the sound of. islamic fundamentalists here it has become increasingly nasty and aggressive and provocative of course they don't operate on their own their own close contact with the saudis and qataris and on some level when you're talking about saudi and qatari policy in the middle east you have to talk about the united states which coordinates with them you know the

history is history is kind of ironic on the one hand here in the united states is this islamophobia but if we look just oracle it will see that benighted states have long had ties with islamic fundamentalists the regional picture here that's pushing all this we have this historic development the arab spring which took the united states and its allies by surprise and we see kind of a 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 pressure 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 that direction of challenging their economic and strategic policies. the wait is almost have

a for millions of football fans across europe as the euro twenty twelve twenty one kicks off in will some of the championship has to jointly by poland and ukraine has attracted criticism from both human rights foundations as well as claims of racism most recently from the dutch national team parties which. the issue as you say is not really about sports and football it's about politics because the u.k. government have joined the french government in saying 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 with drawls 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 there braced in krakow in poland just before they

come into play they gave 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 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 defend assault 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 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 not just have been stopped pulled one 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

nights of in 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 hoteliers in ukraine crisis a power ten. fold increase well this didn't impress the usa for president michel platini he called some of these hoteliers wrote 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 hospitable everybody is welcome of all nations all creeds and to enjoy the football and the football will be the priority not the political issues not the social issues the focal. ok partridge reporting their sports team will have the very latest developments for you from ukraine and poland in just about thirty minutes from now well still ahead for you this hour in r.t. egyptians are struggling to make ends meet. i was never afraid to

speak to the people you see all. the. people accuse the government of ignoring them in the pursuit of power a report on their surely. nicaragua is planning to build an alternative to the panama canal linking the atlantic and the pacific ocean find out what countries are hoping to dive into the thirty billion dollar deal. spain is on the edge of a financial abyss as sources claim it could ask for a bailout as early as the c. evening a great credit score has been slashed while it's pouring costs 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 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 closeness islands 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 claws some cash back into the community if you bring in pointed to was twenty point whatever you spend or fifty points 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 supervise you on the create a call for drink up the town it's a great scheme for the child it means all the money remains within the town as for the euro here it's been reduced to a novelty item printed on tissues and toilet paper and customers come from miles around to spend their puts often stopping by for a haircut while they're here oh yeah i picked up a lot of. from across the border from this fast are on from people from the phantoms down the functions on us have a complication months women can have scott pay me on that account to spit out there's an estimated two hundred eighty five million puns tucked away in draws and

under much mrs 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 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 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 a profit it's not just told the sun as the whole country has suffered with starting measures with the. new water charges which are common in 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 on 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. cloners ireland. the international monetary fund says spanish banks need at least forty billion euros to survive economist and politician mark vi's brought believes the eurozone is caught in a downward spiral. but i think it's 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 where 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 there 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 stated in private markets anymore then they have to go to the european authorities for money and then then there are some maybe debt restructuring the bank losses all the things that happen with greece but on a much bigger scale. and you can watch the full interview with the economist in politician mark buys brought in about fifteen minutes from now all you can catch it right now on our web site r.t. dot com and while you're there you can check out some of the stories we've lined up

for you today including paul's son says he's 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 bell and the american town of boring a trying not to live up to their names for no help at all to come. it's. down to the official auntie application to go on the phone oh i pod touch from the

top story. on the. video on demand. an r.s.s. feed now in the palm of your. question on the dot com. live here in moscow fifteen minutes past the hour now political forces in egypt have decided on who will write the country's new constitution and the morale the loss of nearly three months a special panel consisting of 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 has since plunge 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 marco barak's former prime minister and while politicians are struggling for power they paid little attention to the problems and

needs of the people in this policy report. it took this farming forty seven years to accumulate his wealth and just one week to lose a third of it where i met you you had. i just one morning opened this place and found three buffalo lying down they wouldn't eat or drink anything all the houses in this village all the farmers here lost cattle within a month a foot in mouth disease killed thousands of cattle buffalo sheep and other livestock across egypt in march the united nations to kid a catastrophe and warned 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 for the work done by the government did not do anything for us our animals are dying one by one and no one does anything i was low cost egypt and say the situation has been worsened by a climate of corruption. government employees. and

we saw corruption gave very poor the three business paying me to be free to do anything when it was found out a new strain on the disease had hit egypt it seemed heart rates soaring and prices rocketing people got afraid and stopped buying meat choosing instated 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 look. at this all things keep getting worse no one's buying from me i'm more what the people are waiting to hear if they can trust them along the way but they might be waiting a while if ther very for the roof and this has never affected the speed to this day to see all corrupted the state or only the people who show the fruits

don't know what it is or the flames 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 says. perhaps the security of the regime security is the paramount most important issue for them so they spend. a lot of money there was a lot of news holes 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. r.t. . demonstrators breaking the protest regulations 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 what is your position of has the details. 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 said despite criticism from the opposition the president clinton said that he thinks this law will be corresponds with washington 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 broad this rally in moscow ended with clashes between some of the protesters and the police we've seen. pieces of concrete flying around and small needs any 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 into paul and in the future for a possible amendment see if we just compare the figures of the fines with some of the western european countries then the penalties and the fines the 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 the imprisonment fifteen thousand euros in germany or even up to seventy five thousand euros in switzerland so obviously they're much higher than the ones which have been just fixed now by

this new rule of law in russia and also if we just study the actions and the behavior of the of the audience at protests rallies since the police were largely criticized after that all large rally which ended in violence in moscow well often if you look at how the student protests were dispersed in canada last month or some of the people i can. so you got it speeds often. in the west act much more aggressively very what we see of the broadest rallies here in. europe is going on there in central moscow now to some other international news in brief three one and a half minutes past the hour a bomb attack on our 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 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 recaptured sixteen of them with the other still at large inmates escaped after detonating explosives which destroyed a watchtower guards then opened fire on the job breakers killing three and injuring dozens. japan from ministry said that two nuclear reactors inactive since the 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 country last year. and the u.n. nuclear watchdog has 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 in moscow.

the nicaraguan government is planning to build a thirty billion dollar trade route between the atlantic and pacific oceans to rival the panama canal several countries including russia are vying for the chance to fund the planned ati's. 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 nicaragua maintains it does have the right to build there the panama canal is currently going through an upgrade but even after that's finished this nicaraguan canal would be able to take bigger ships and with global trade increasingly shifting to the asia pacific region interest in a second route is also growing if all goes according to plan the project could be completed by two thousand and nineteen. dollars at the business desk and daniel president has warned that europe is heading for a renewed recession there's reports spain is already holding talks in brussels at the moment on a spanish bailout as it's being called spain's banks can't pay about property loans up to a million spanish homes stand unsolved that's quote a real disaster for the single currencies as one of the euro's founding fathers of mars is things pain is bigger than the greek irish and portuguese economies put together no redeeming expects greece to quit the euro whoever wins this month's

elections in athens the 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 next year and i would say there is a probability that greece exit the euro zone thinking about germany even if the. now into a new government is going to try to reform a very comic situation becoming so unsustainable the day will exit and i would say that it could be good for them as long as their exit is all of the only. means of then there were mass in the. ballance of course they'll be damaged the banks damage the savings of people in their banks and that's why they need more funding to make sure that it is not dissolved in the meltdown and the contagion that as the eurozone is a mall there so it is the mega see it that way and it's fine so there's all of the really probably it's a manager ball look at the bags and you can watch the full interview on monday on

all cus shares of rising after the fed chairman said there may be more economic stimulus to come but oil has hit a six week low on fears demand will fall in the united states and china both brant crude oil two dollars on friday alone it's been a very bad period for the crude price recently what with fears for the future of the global economy sending energy stocks tumbling here in moscow which has broken this week's winning streak and the euro is losing to the dollar on the euro zone news the russian ruble is once again retreating against both major currencies in europe today bill all the news and interest all the websites thanks very much for that next hour here in r.t. now more on money in a few minutes as we discuss the financial woes of the eurozone first a recap of today's.

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