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 told the most extreme doffed death toll given so far stones that's almost one hundred dad and this is the figure that's been picked up by almost all the international media who have been hearing 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 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 it's not just clear who exactly is behind what it contains and carving jihad is the truth of the matter is as you know. the position groups only. to. be clear because they were to do so which to us is a very dangerous development to really go into productive development call finance hazards 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 being very much against any kind of intervention other nations that are backing rebels they are already interfering into syria is internal affairs and not only syria in

spain and gulf by the constant but also the international community is shaken by this conflict and is very much divided and there is no compromise same that. amid concerns of outside forces fueling the violence in syria the country's government has been blaming the radical islamist sect of sophists and al qaeda for plot chant who in turn have powerful backing so says the middle east expert robert prince the role of the as you call them the salafist and islamic fundamentalists here has become increasingly nasty and aggressive and provocative of course they don't operate on their own there are in 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 this is islamophobia but if we look just oracularly we'll see that benighted states have long had ties with islamic fundamentalists the regional picture here that said pushing all this we have this historic development the arab spring which took the united states and its allies by surprise and we see a kind of double standard of how they how the united states is is dealing with the arab spring so in places like bahrain and yemen they're actively supporting those forces which are trying to crush the 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 the direction of challenging their economic and strategic policies. the wait is finally over for millions of football

fans across europe as the euro twenty twelve tournament kicks off in warsaw however the championship goes 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 explains. the issue as you say is not really about sports and football it's about politics because the u.k. governments have joined the french government in signing 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. both the u.k. government as i say on the back of the french government and other high profile e.u. withdrawals and threatened withdrawals over the alleged mistreatment the situation here is not really just about political controversies that seem to be dogging this tournament but also about social issues and as you say racism has become a particular issue a dutch team based not in ukraine they're braced in krakow in poland just before they come into play the game and they have they 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 he was a 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 place 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 that prices power ten. balding crease well this didn't impress the say you wait for president michel platini he called some of these hotel years rob 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 his first of all everybody is welcome of all nations all creates and to enjoy the football and the football or be the priority not the political issues not the social issues the. parties that still have view this is a great undertaking 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 dollar deal. that's still to come for you but first spain is on the edge of a financial abyss e.u.

sources claim it could ask for a bailout as early as this evening madrid's credit score has been slashed while it's boring call soared close to the level that forced greece portugal and ireland to seek rescue but as euro zone powerhouses try to keep the single currency afloat one town is banking on the past to turn a profit on tuesday or smith. it's a blast from the past as this customer uses the irish punt to pay for some everyday 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 claw some cash back into the community if you bring in pointed to was twenty point whatever you spend or fifty point whatever you spend we will give you a change of tone his tone voters which you can then go and spend crossroad in super value on the create note or go for a drink of the town it's it's a great scheme for the time that 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 or yeah a lot of people coming from cross border from about us as fast as our own from people from no phantoms from the functions on us of a complication mountain. here means that if i want to get out there's an estimated two hundred eighty five million tucked away in draws and under much mrs forgotten about ok to souvenirs when arlen joined the euro a decade ago they're no longer legal tender but would have a value of around two hundred forty million euros just a fraction of which would make a massive difference in crisis hit close the permit scheme has undoubtedly boosted the local economy but the ravages of the economic crash are still all too evident the main street is lined with boarded up shops with around fifty percent of

premises empty it's a scene that's repeated in small towns and bigger cities throughout our land austerity here means business people are being hit with a variety of taxes and levies making it harder and harder to stay afloat let alone turn a. this is not just told this town as the whole country has suffered with starting measures with the. new water charges which are common in shortly new household charge which came in this year and 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 fate of the euro hangs in the balance clearness may not be alone in looking back for its future nor a smith altie closest island. 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 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 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 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 voice broke throughout the day here on of course you can catch it right now on our web site don't come while you're there check out some of the stories we've lined up for you today including a lot of cool 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 dull and the american town of boring but trying not to live up to them names find out how they'll come.

crowds have gathered once again on egypt's iconic tot his square people are demanding x. prime minister is banned from the election runoff next week they're also angry at the jail sentence for the former president well let's get more perspective from egyptian human rights activist helmi she joins me now live from cairo well people are campaigning against mubarak's close aide running for the country's top job but do both candidates really address the causes that kicked off the revolution in the first place. well i think that definitely people didn't expect to see mubarak's expression minister an ex minister. and a muslim brotherhood candidate in the second run for the elections in egypt in the first elections after the revolution. but at the same time i did think that we should put someone like a fake in the same bus as. morsi the muslim brotherhood the new

lucian most of the evolutionists do not agree with them ideologically and then i agree with them on many of the political decisions the they have taken from the beginning of the evolution still they are not the same as they are now as corrupted as someone like shit for example but what about this runoff itself isn't that in question because ahead of this final round the country's supreme court is to vote on the so-called isolation or no that would actually ball the former mubarak regime officials or any officials from running for office of course at shafique in this case you know if it supports the ban and he's bald then won't this immediately hand victory to the muslim brotherhood candidate mohamed morsi and if that's the case what's the point of having an election. i don't think that after a year and a half of calling for political isolation load that they will upload right now if they want to apply this slow they would have done this earlier before the elections

started even people have been calling for this this franchise and into law for so long nobody was listening to them so i didn't think that. the supreme council for mattresses would stop shipping from running for. the presidential elections in the second drought. but definitely if the low is applied this is going to be a big a chance for the muslim brotherhood candidate to take. you know not just islamists from but from everyone else you mention the armed forces that just come. influence will they have to the elections you think obviously a bone of contention with many at the moment saying they still have too much influence what about after the election do you have hopes that that could change. how about what the hopes of the influence of the military council will that change after the election. yeah of course the council has a huge influence on the entire process the elections is under their supervision and

icing deaths having any kind of elections with the military council in egypt has no difference between having elections before there is lucian work was in power is still the military is and to is integrated in all the institutions of the country and they are definitely part of. so i think that they wouldn't allow they wouldn't allow some resolution a candidate or someone who is changing the status quo to come into power through the elections and what about the new constitution to be written in what way will latch reflect the people's needs do you think. asked for the constitution skaf as been saying that if if the. pully if the parties the political parties didn't form and a constitutional assembly and for forty eight hours they will have to go back to the one nine hundred seventy one constitution again as if we didn't do anything by

saying i think that is scared definitely needs to crissy of its power and authority . you know the control a great deal of the economy in the country and that defended the need to protect this in the constitution because you are just very briefly you've taken part in a lot of the protests there since the revolution do you think the country will be better off now in the future just your very personal view briefly. well i definitely think that. this situation is not going to go back to how it used to be reform work. before there is the ocean of course people started to sink in a different way and talk with each other debates and have an opinion people were afraid to talk before their solution happened but right now everyone has an opinion and everyone is able to express their opinions freely even if we didn't accomplish anything from our demands right now after a year and i have i think that it's

a good sign that people are at least debating and talking and taking part in the process and hopefully it's going to change by the time it's going to be a long process right human rights activist thank you very much for your thoughts good to hear from you. thank you. demonstrators breaking the protest regulations here in russia will now have to pay higher fines after a lengthy parliamentary debate president putin the signed the bill into law people guilty of could face penalties of around seven thousand euros. as the details. 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 before i finish also 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 radicals just to remind you of the initial draft of this law was introduced after a large part of 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 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 into all amends 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 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 the 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 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 all just rallies since the police were largely criticized after that all large rally which ended in violence in moscow while often if you look at how the student protests were dispersed in canada last month or some of the occupy camp. see in the united states often. in the west. much more aggressively evaluate what we see of the protests rallies here in russia . to some other international news in brief an hour for you nearly twenty two minutes past the hour a bomb attack on a bus carrying government staff has killed nineteen 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 journey in northern afghanistan officials say they have 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 jail breakers killing three and injuring dozens. japan's prime minister has said that 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 country last year. and the u.n. nuclear watchdog says look no progress has been reached in talks over iran's controversial atomic program the agency wants to get greater access to the country's military sites suspected of carrying out nuclear tests iran insists its program is for peaceful purposes the meeting came before broader talks later this

month here in moscow. the 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 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 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. daniels here with the money news daniel banks and now accused of helping the biggest fraudster in history here's a group of american british belgian and swiss lenders are being sued for providing customers to bernie made off you may remember prosecutors say professional bankers must have it suspected the incredible returns promised by the common mode of tens of billions of dollars from people in the world's largest have a pyramid scheme from america's top ponzi scheme to russia's twenty years after the

original went bust police have started a case against m.m.m. two thousand and eleven mastermind game of roadies says this time is different because their website now admits it's a pyramid scheme but courts only stepped in when i thought you might have committed suicide at the weekend after losing all his money in the ninety's up to fifty million dollars a day were coming into the scheme collapsed but where was made of one hundred. fifty years jail for this check mark is because this report spain is already holding talks in brussels on a spanish bailout or spain else as it's being called spain's banks all sinking on the home page property loans new roubini expects greece to quit the euro whatever the outcome of 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 actually even if they elect into a new government there is going to try to reform

a very dynamic situation becoming so sustainable that they will exit and i would say that it could be good for them as long as the exit is all of the only. means and then there are massive depression a show on their backs or a combo compact to be a better story a good or better story ballance of course will be damaged the banks damage their savings of people in their banks and that's why they need more funding to make sure that there is not these orderly meltdown and the contagion but as the eurozone is a smaller so it is than they could see it that way and it's fine so there's all of the really probably. to manage a ball look at the bags and you can watch the full interview on monday on see us shares all roys ing off to the fed chairman said there may be more economic stimulus but solo hit a six week low today on fears demand will fall in the u.s. and china sending only g. stocks tumbling here or mosco which has broken this week's winning streak and the single currency is losing against the dollar all the news from the eurozone also

falls as cultist growth will cause for the first time since his two thousand and one recession and europe today there's more news an interview on the website daniel thanks a lot good to see that more money shortly for you here in r.t. in lower lister's capital account that's our program coming to you from our washington studios before that i'll bring you a recap of our top stories to. thanks . to. the folks in cold storage. for going global it's

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good afternoon and welcome to capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. your headlines for thursday june seventh two thousand and twelve best breaky testified on capitol hill today of course everyone was looking for language to suggest whether or not the fed will engage in more stimulus and if we will see q e three take a listen we have a number of different options that we have to consider each of them and the costs and benefits associated with them but at this point i really can't say that anything is completely off the table. lou is that all right well we'll find out soon enough the fed meets later this month so if they do reach into their toolbox for an instrument to screw your financial freedom how can you prepare we'll try to answer that now this was another hot topic on the hill today.