and in an orgy of violence the syrian government has been recruits in that they've called help from local residents in in one of these villages asking for help after militants took over the village and immediately after these call they launched this operation and after they entered the village they discovered nine bodies of civilians and it's actually also a country duke's wards the rebels are reporting about gas told the most extreme doest death toll given so far stones that's almost one hundred dad and this is the figure that's been picked up by almost old international media who have been here 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 being 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 into the 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 it's not just clear who exactly is behind what it contains and causing jihad is the truth of the matter is as you know is the opposition groups only. who failed to comply to. be clear because they were to do so which is a very dangerous development to really go into productive development coffin and size 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 being very much against any kind of intervention other nations that are backing. and

rebels they are already interfering into serious internal affairs and not only syria is faint and caused by the constant but also the international community is shaken by a sconce eight and is very much divided and there is as to no compromising that. the time a prominent british journalist has just returned from syria claims rebels set him up deliberately to be killed by the syrian army alex thomson from the u.k. channel four news described to r t what he calls a stunt pulled by the opposition fighters in order to deal a propaganda blow to the assad regime. we were deliberately led out of that way which they knew they the rebels you would change we were led. to the one. that killed the go down the route which looked dangerous to us but we we trusted them that we would go down the route. we turned and found the road was blocked that was a roadblock if they had to have known was. there was nobody around and about point

we were forced to do it and the vehicle around in a free fire zone and one round with duty tried that we would definitely be dangerous situation and i'm in no doubt they did it deliberately my point a great journalist but america you don't have to be very clever to work out that any journalist. syrian army are going to be an appalling blow again for president now that's going to reflect all the way to moscow and all the way to beijing i mean anybody support the regime and the regime is involved in the killing of june and clearly that is going to be a bad thing in terms of propaganda so the motivation for the rebels to put them finite it seems to me very obvious you know this is the war these things will be be done. the weights finally over for millions of football fans across europe as the euro twenty twelve tournament kicks off russia's leading right

now two one in fact against the czech republic however the championship hosted jointly by poland and ukraine is attracted criticism for both human rights violations as well as claims of racism most recently from the dutch national team is artie's kate 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 due to the alleged mistreatment of the imprisoned former prime minister yulia timoshenko. well 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 brace 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 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 programme called stadiums of hate which highlighted club level particular problems with racism and anti-semitism in poland and ukraine and these pictures were shown to the england former captain and defender salt campbell and he looked at these pictures and said that why he an 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 place suffer any kind of abuse and not just 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 of a serious trouble the referee decided to stop the match and this we were awarded

a three nil victory ukraine and poland have five years to prepare for the have been problems these have been reported they've 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 say you a for president michel platini he called some of these hoteliers robbers 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 or be the priority not the political issues not the social issues. ok partridge the first one has no bit above football in the polish town of lords either a group of some fifty hooligans are reported to have attacked foreign found at a bar ahead of the opening tournament locals allegedly punched in speaking to supporters but bar owners also said a few of those attacks were russian polish police broke up the fight but no arrests

were made the victims were left with cuts and bruises no serious injuries reported it's feared the violence of racism could go undermine the whole championship. spain's on the edge of a financial abyss tonight as e.u. sources claim it's about to ask for a bailout madrid's credit scores been slashed while its borrowing costs soared close to the level that forced greece portugal and ireland to seek rescue but as euro zone powers is trying to keep the single currency afloat one irish turn is banking on the past to turn a profit artie's laura 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 to was twenty point spend or fifty point whatever you spend we would give you a change of tone his tone voters which you can spend cross the road in super value on the career or go for a drink up the town it's a great scheme for the means all the money remains in the tug 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 coming from cross border from fast especially around from people from the. onus of complication months women. out there's an estimated two hundred eighty five million tucked away in draws and under mattresses 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 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 letter. turn a profit 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 which came in this year will increase every year. there was a two percent hike up to twenty three percent at the point of sale tax which we have to do something something to improve the situation so keep it 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 your king back for its norris myth r.t. and. remember all the stories we've got online as well r.t. dot com and a lot more as well like these the son of former u.s. presidential candidate ron paul says he's now officially supporting republican front runner mitt romney as the party don't to macand the democrat barack obama in the presidential election even though he says his father's always been his first choice read up more about that on once we get a moment and residents of the scottish british called. the american town of boring are trying not to live up to the names find out how would our t. dot com a place of course where you will always get total inspiration. crowds once again gathered on egypt psychotic tahrir square people are demanding mubarak's ex prime minister is banned from the election run off next week the protesters say

the revolutions only halfway through and accuse the ruling military to cumulating power up human rights activists helmi believes the army 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 do think that we should someone like that should fit in the same bus as. morsi they are not as corrected as someone like should think for example the military council had a huge influence on the entire process the elections is under their supervision and i sing that's having any kind of elections with the military council for an egypt has no difference between having elections before there is lucian work was in power so the military is an entity is integrated in all the institutions of the country and they're definitely part of the work switching so i think that they wouldn't

allow it he wouldn't know some resolution of a candidate or someone who is changing the status coupe to come into power through the elections. demonstrators breaking the protest regulations here in russia will now have to pay higher fines after a lengthy parliamentary debate president putin signed the bill into law now people guilty of violations could face penalties of around seven thousand euros. reports. 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 putin said that he thinks this law will be corresponds with western european standards and is aimed at

protecting citizens from the radicals just to remind you of the initial draft of this law was introduced after a large 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 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 in much more severe for example let's look at france where the maximum five fine could reach forty five thousand euros or even up to three years of imprisonment fifteen thousand euros in germany or even up to seventy five thousand euros in switzerland

so obviously there are much higher than the ones which have been just fixed now by this rule of law in russia and also if we just study the actions and behavior of the opportunities at all just rallies since i think police who are a large be 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. in the united states often. in the west it's much more aggressive what we see. here in russia. some world news in brief a bomb attack on a bus carrying government staff killed nineteen and wounded dozens in northwest pakistan the vehicle was near the city of push hour when the bomb hidden inside it exploded the blast was the latest reminder of active militancy in the region despite a recent drop in violence no groups yet said it was behind the attack. japan's

prime minister said the two nuclear reactors in active since the fukushima disaster must be restarted he added that the move will help to protect jobs and boost the country's economy the pm insisted all measures have been taken to ensure safety in the event of an earthquake or tsunami in march last year japan decided to shut down all its reactors for the last one going off line in. the u.n. nuclear watchdog says 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. time next u.s. economist and politician mark tells us r t what he thinks is going wrong right now in europe.

mark weisbrot thank you for joining us on r.t. i want to start with a g twenty promised to boost the i.m.f. lending resources with over four hundred thirty billion dollars. yet the i.m.f. steering committee said that these new resources will not be used for a particular reason do you think this is their response to the concerns that this

money will be used to bailout the eurozone 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 or the big money i mean the deaths of spain and italy are enormous and that's what they're worried about even if it were only portugal and ireland and greece. they wouldn't really be that worried it's really spain and italy that's what the money is for. and he talked to the contrary just talk the rest of europe is also contributing to this but there are pledged one hundred fifty billion dollars their approach is fundamentally wrong i mean they they don't have to do this they can do what the federal reserve did in the united states our federal reserve has created over two trillion dollars since two thousand and eight they have the ability they can do that through their central bank create. and they can. do what the fed did here they can lower the interest rates and even guarantee

a certain interest rate. spanish italian bond and that would put an end to this threat of a severe crisis so do you think euro zone look hard sad that the highest risk is yet another crisis in europe do you think that's coming that's exactly right if there aren't any big risks to the global economy other than what the europeans are doing to themselves and their. 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 that's what christine lagarde is worried about in spain which is the big trouble spot right now

because investors are selling their bonds and driving up the interest rate on the ten year bonds to dangerous levels that's the real fear right now i mean that's what happened in portugal and ireland greece right the interest rates get to a certain level they can't borrow sustainably 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 that's what they're really worried about i don't think that's necessarily going to happen but the problem is that the authorities the european authorities are pushing in that direction spain is supposed to cut make spending cuts of this year of about or budget tightening of about two point six percent of g.d.p. so that's big that will definitely they've got twenty five percent unemployment already forty five percent youth unemployment the economy is shrinking and here the

authorities are doing the opposite of what almost any other governments in the world would do we didn't do that here ok we would never do that here you know our political system wouldn't allow it but because the spanish don't have control over their over the european authorities they're being forced to do something that is really worsening their economy so what's their alternative the alternative well it depends there's two ways of looking at alter of one is if the european authorities co-operate. and if that case of term alternative is very easy the e.c. beat came actually just by the spanish bonds and push the interest rate down to a reasonable level so that it doesn't explode so their debt doesn't explode and they can keep it there and they don't have to spend very much to do that either and they can create the money so there's no burden on the european taxpayer that's the easy solution no if they won't do that and they insist on making spain worse then

spain really has to consider leaving the euro that's the only alternative for them and we can talk about the economy without talking about the oil price tensions in the air please and what do you think that's happening you know the oil prices have been falling in the last couple of months and i think that's because primarily reduce tensions you see the united states finally. looking towards negotiations with iran and instead of just being the war drums you know it was the war drums that really drove up the price of oil probably more than anything i mean it's not the whole story some of it weakening in oil prices is due to some investors. worries about the global economy and the crisis in europe so as the crisis in europe gets worse and the possibility of another well europe is already in recession but the possibility of that recession leading to. further slowdown of the world economy you know that could lower oil prices as well but my guess is that

most of what you've seen most recently has been the increase prospects for a possible. peaceful resolution of the conflict between the united states and iran it was really the united states' drive towards war which is where we were going and still are really in my opinion i mean they're still headed in that direction but not at the same speed that they were just a few months ago. hold

it. liz. goodspeed. i wish i. could.

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hello there this is the r t news channel i'm kevin owen and these are our top stories the u.n. urges both the syrian regime and the rebels to lay down arms to prevent the country from sliding into a full scale civil war this comes as you and observers visit the site of the latest massacre in the city of qom a. big day for european football the euro twenty twelve told me kicks off but fair play has been dealt a blow with human rights abuses and claims of racism most recently from the dutch national team at a later school feel to russia right now finishing its game with the czech republic just about three minutes left the score for one. plus the euro zone on a knife edge experts predicts spain could ask for a bailout as soon as later this evening but. try to keep the single currency afloat when irish town is banking on the past to turn

a profit we report on that in the next thirty minutes. between now than the top of the hour a weapon that endangers our very existence yet some countries choose to continue to boost their nuclear arsenals instead of fighting for peace. the nuclear age is there for sixty years. i can describe exactly how an underground test was no there were three two one zero or more you couldn't hear anything there was no noise at all when the ground lifted up. we live under the threat of increasingly sophisticated weapons. in two thousand one hundred eighty eight states parties to the nonproliferation treaty signed on to a statement providing for an unequivocal undertaking to the total elimination of nuclear weapons it has been set back by principally.