for asians to rule today. the un urges both the syrian regime and the rebels to lay down arms to prevent a civil war but as observers had to inspect the massacre site near the city of hama . a big day for european football as the euro twenty twelve kicks off of play is being dealt a blow with a boy called server human rights abuses and claims of racism. eurozone on a knife edge experts predict strain could ask for a bailout as soon as this evening but is desperately to scramble to save the euro one town next to its last currency salvation.

around the clock around the world international news and comment live from moscow the un and its envoy to syria are looking for ways to put additional pressure on damascus to prevent the country from sliding into a full scale civil war and also words the rebel forces to lay down their arms clashes between troops and rebel fighters as well as rallies against the ongoing violence have taken place across the country you know position claim a sad truth of shelled a rebel controlled area in the city of homs this is teams of un observers are visiting the site of the latest massacre near the city of hama to try and establish who is to blame for the deaths of up to one hundred people bodies were a function of reports now from syria. when hearing two different takes from the opposition and from the syrian government the opposition is claim is that the syrian army shelled peaceful farming village in central syria and after that alleged pro assad minute turns came in they tied people up they shot they stopped

and burned in an orgy of violence how the syrian government has been recruiting that they've got a call 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 we're going to 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 opposition

and syrian government are responsible for what's going on at the same time emphasizing that 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 carved into hard is the truth of the matter is as you know is that the position groups. who failed to comply to. clear the room to do so which 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 is 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 saying that. the wait is almost over for millions of football fans across europe as the euro twenty twelve poland kicks off in warsaw where the championship hosted 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 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 because now. 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 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 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 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 not just have been stopped pulled a 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 no victory ukraine and poland have had five years to prepare but there 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 that prices apparently attend. balding crease well this didn't impress the say you wait for president michel platini he caught some of these hoteliers rop 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 creates and to enjoy the football and the football or be the priority not the political issues not the social issues. well it hasn't all

been about football in the polish town of lords a group of some fifty hooligans reportedly attacked foreign firms in a bar ahead of the opening of the tournament local polish thugs allegedly punched english speaking supporters but bar owners also said a few of those attacked were russian polish police broke up the fight but no arrests were made the victims were left with cuts and bruises no serious injuries were reported it's feared who in the near nazi assaults could undermine the championship. spain is on the edge of a financial abyss as sources claim it could ask for a bailout as early as this evening the credit score has been slashed wanted to bring 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 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 ireland 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 points whatever you spend we will give you a change of tone this time voters which you can then go and spend crossroad in super value on the credit note or go for a 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 a lot of people come from from belfast especially around from people from the phantoms down the functions on us have a complication months women can have shot 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 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 . a profit it's not just one of the times the whole country has suffered with starting measures with the. new water charges which are common and shortly new

household charge which which came in this year will increase every year. there was a two percent hike up to twenty three percent in the point of sale tax which we have to do something something to improve the situation 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 you looking back for its future nor a smith close island. remember all the latest stories are also on our website so. here's a taste of what's there for you right now paul's son says he's now officially supporting republican front runner mitt romney as the party's ultimate candidate to face democratic iraq in the presidential election even though his father has always been his first choice. and residence about scottish village called belle and the american town of boring trying not to live up to their names find out how to don't

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shoot me in the head i'm going to die. and. once you hundred minute i'll never go back to. use continues here in thirty minutes past the hour in the russian capital crowds have once again gathered on egypt's iconic top his square people are demanding the barracks ex prime minister is banned from the election runoff next week the protesters say the revolution is only half way through and accuse the ruling military of accumulating power human rights activists she held me told me earlier that she believes the army is still behind every aspect of life in the country i think that definitely people didn't expect to see mubarak's expression minister an ex minister. and a muslim brotherhood candidates in in the second run for the elections in egypt. but at the same time i the thing that we should put someone like a mature fake in the same bus as. morsi as corrected as someone like

shit for example the melter council had 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 power in egypt has no difference between having elections before there is lucian work was in power so the military is and to is integrated in all the institutions of the country and they're definitely part of works through jean so i think they wouldn't he wouldn't know some resolution in a candidate or someone who is changing the status quo to come into power through the elections. last general the country is plunging to rest with numerous protests and demonstrations against the ruling army and demands for change but while politicians are locked in a power struggle there paying little attention to the problems and needs of the people there in egypt as paula zahn now reports it took this fall the forty seven

years to accumulate his wealth and just one week to lose a third of it round that you're hired. 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 declared 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 for the body the government did not do anything for us my animals are dying one by one and no one does anything i was lucky. egyptians say the situation has been worsened by a climate of corruption. in government employees. and we saw for

a friend gave very paul 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 rate soaring and prices rocketing and people got afraid and stopped buying meat choosing instated 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. that you all about this things keep getting worse no one's buying from me and i'm more people are waiting to hear if they can trust him a lot. but they might be waiting a while if ther very for the roof and this has never afraid to speak to the state it is seen or corrupted state or new the people who show the friends the don't want it or the sides 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 private. the previous regimes. said perhaps the security regime security is the paramount most important issue for them so they spend. a lot of money on there was a lot of news holes. 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 policy 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 violations could face penalties of around seven thousand euros. fans 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 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 paul and in the future of 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 there are much higher than the ones which have been just a 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 brule 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 you see in the west. much more aggressively very what we see of the protest rallies here in russia. you go to position of their reporting from central moscow twenty minutes past the hour now let's check out some other international news in brief and wild update this hour a bomb attack last caring government that office called in 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's behind the attack. japan's prime minister has said that two nuclear reactors are in

active since the focus shima disaster must be restarted 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. thirty prisoners including taliban fighters a fled from a jail in northern afghanistan officials say they've recaptured sixteen of them with the other still at large inmates escaped after detonating explosives which destroyed a watch tower guards then opened fire on the job breakers killing three and injuring dozens. of u.n. nuclear watchdog says no progress has been reached in talks over iran's controversial atomic program you can see wants to get greater access to the country's military side suspected of carrying out nuclear tests iran insists its program is for peaceful purposes and the meeting came 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 the pacific oceans to roil the panama canal several countries including russia are vying for the chance to fund the plan as 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. time for business with daniel and there are reports spain has asked for a bailout daniel yes we're hearing finance ministers have agreed to more warning to start drawing up the details already they want it agreed within a week to stop spain's bad loans spreading to italy because sovereign debt load is one hundred twenty percent of g.d.p. barack obama has just told brussels to act quote void now to stop the collapse of the euro but downward spiral as he called it britain europe being exposed greece to quit the euro whatever the outcome of this month's elections in athens the merc who predicted the economic meltdown in two thousand and eight says he's worried what

will happen to people savings. i would say you know by the next theater i would say that is at least probably the greatest exit the eurozone thinking about and surely even if they elect not into a new government there is going to try to reform and omics relations becoming so unsustainable that day and we lag and i would say that it could be good for them as well as bags it is all of the only. means of then there were massive shown that acts were recalled more compact that the restore growth to restore its ballance of course would be damaged the banks damaged the savings of people in their banks and that's why they need more funding to make sure that it isn't all disorderly meltdown and the contagion of the rest of the eurozone is milder so if it's done they can see it that way and it's fine i said he's all of the leap probably. it's a manageable look at the bags. the full interview on monday on r.t. the single currency is losing against the dollar this hour france has cut its

growth forecast for the first time since its two thousand and one recession roubles also lost some gains from the last couple of days the price of oil hit six week lows today their own fears demand will fall in the two biggest crude consumers china and the u.s. is sending energy stocks tumbling here in moscow which is broken this week winning streak new york is the only major bourse open at the moment and it's high after a pause morning it should close on those signs proselyte is tackling spanish debt and a group of global banks is being sued for providing customers to force the bernie madoff prosecutors say professional bankers must have suspected the incredible returns promised by the con man madoff stole tens of billions of dollars from people in the world's biggest ever pyramid scheme from america's top ponzi scheme to russia's twenty years after the original were passed police have started a case against m.m.m. twenty eleven most one game of road is this time is different because their website now admits it's a pyramid scheme only stepped in when

a source committed suicide at the weekend after losing all his money in the ninety's up to fifty million dollars a day were coming in until the scheme collapsed but whereas mother of one hundred fifty years jail for a job today all the news and interviews are on the website thanks a lot daniel daniel bushell there and we're going to stay with economic matters as we discuss if the euro has hit a dead end in crosstalk that'll be after the headlines stay with us live here on r.t. in moscow. culture

is that so much i'm afraid we're going to make it a lot of the play area but look at lunchtime for the euro with the greek economy in tatters and spain on the financial break the future of the monetary union looks anything but bright. full started here before going global and now it's pulling fire. choose your place take your stand. to. make your statement. spread the word. keep my google

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