shot they stopped and burned in the violence the syrian government has been recruiting that they've called help from local residents in in one of these villages asking for help off the militants took over the village and immediately after these call they launched this operation and after they entered the village they discovered nine bodies of civilians and it's actually also a country 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 old international media can hear it from new york from the u.n. security council that both. secretary general ban ki-moon and special envoy to syria coffee and i have been calling on international community to put more pressure on damascus and i had a sad that his peace plan is not been implemented although these time stressing that it's not being implemented by both sides and both sides both wrong opposition

and syrian government are responsible for what's going on at the same time emphasizing 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 carved into the heart is the truth of the matter is as you know is that the position groups only. do not only failed to comply to plan but they've been clear it is their intention to do so which to us 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 are the new. backing rebels they

are already interfering into syria's 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 still no compromising that of course put it in syria marouf an option of a. prominent british journalist who just returned from syria claims that rebels set him up deliberately to be killed by the syrian army alex thomson from the u.k.'s channel four news has 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'd rebel you were dangerous we were. born on to kill the go down a route which looked dangerous to us but we trusted them that we would go down the route. we turned them down the road was blocked that was

a robot if. there was nobody around and at that point we were forced to do it in the vehicle around in a free fire zone and one round with duty pride that we would definitely be dangerous situation i'm in no doubt they did it deliberately my point. but you don't have to be very clever to work out that any journalist. syrian army are going to be an appalling blow again. about going through all the way to moscow all the way to beijing i mean anybody support the regime and the regime is involved in the general and clearly that is going to be a bad thing in terms of propaganda so that i could be a shoo in for the rebels somebody that it's. very obvious you know this is the war these things will be. the year of twenty twelve football championship in ukraine

and poland is kicked off for the polish team draw against greece and remarkable when russia two in the last hour playing in the second match of the tournament russia won a dramatic encounter for one against the czech republic but the championships have also tried to controversy to some delegations boycotting the group stages of human rights violations and widespread allegations of racism from the home fans kate partridge explains. the issue as you say is not really about sports so much of football it's about politics because the u.k. government has joined the french government in saying that they will boycott the tournament during the great stages this is cheating. 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 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 on 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 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 matches have been stopped for the has been a president during the u.a.e. for 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 for the have been problems these of being reported there's been delays over stadiums and infrastructure there are also problems reported about hoteliers in ukraine prices apparently a ten fold increase well this didn't impress the say you wait for president michel platini he calls some of these hoteliers rubbish he didn't mince his words but the watchword here is ukrainian hospitality they want this tournament to remain to be real. as one that was hospitable everybody is welcome all nations all creeds and to enjoy the football and the football or be the priority not the political issues not the social issues. most of it hasn't all been about football the polish town of lords either a group or some fifty hooligans reportedly attacked foreign found at a bar there ahead of the opening of the tournament locals allegedly punched in the

speaking supporters the bar owners also said a few of those attacks were russian two polish police broke up the fight no arrests were made the victims were left with cuts and bruises no serious injuries reported it's food violence and racism could go undermine the whole championship. spain is 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 see rescue but as euro zone powerhouses try to keep the single currency afloat one irish town is banking on the past to turn a profit what is 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 the change of tone this time voters which you can spend cross the road in super value on the credit note or go for a drink up the tone it's 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 oh yeah definitely a lot of people coming from across the border from about foss especially our own from people from the. onus of complication monson going to have him in that i want to get out there's an estimated two hundred eighty five million tucked away in draws and under mattresses forgotten about ok to souvenirs when 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 . the profits it's not just told us towns 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 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 nora smith r.t. cloners island you know yourself more great stories check out our stories online and our t. dot com there the son of u.s. presidential hopeful one old son is appalled by republican frontrunner mitt romney even though he admits his father's always been his first choice don't let the side down the families. and residents of a scottish village called d.l. on the american turn of boring trying not to live up to the name funnel that spoke to on our website r t don't call. crowds of once again gathered on egypt's iconic tahrir square people are demanding mubarak sex prime minister is banned from the election runoff next week the

protesters say the revolutions only halfway through and accuse the ruling military of accumulating power even rights activists held me 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 of. and a muslim brotherhood candidate in in the second run for the elections in egypt but at the same time i did think that we should someone like a mature feet in the same bus as. morsi they're not as corrected as someone like should think for example the military council having 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 an entity is integrated in all the institutions of the

country and they're definitely part of the works using so i think that they wouldn't allow he wouldn't know some resolution a candidate or someone who is changing the status scoop to come into power through the elections. straight his 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 around seven thousand euro now if you go pers can offer ports. 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 i fish bowls despite criticism from the opposition the president clinton 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 launch brought this rally in moscow ended with clashes between some of the protesters and the police we've seen . this is a 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 new rule of law in russia and also if we just study the actions in 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 town i know last month or some of the occupy. see the united states often. in the west. much more aggressively evaluate what we see. here in russia. what we'll do see a brief bomb attack on a bus carrying government starts killed nineteen does the pakistan in the city push out with a bomb inside it exploded blast was the latest reminder of 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 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 reactors with the last one going off line in may. 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 not meeting came before broader talks later this month here in moscow. one eighty no moscow time next u.s. economist and politician tells us that r t what he thinks is going so badly wrong 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 i just talked to the rest of europe is also contributing to this because they're there they pledged one hundred fifty billion dollars but their approach is fundamentally wrong i mean 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. bay 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 the 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 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 rig. session that they're in right now if the recession continues that deep 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 and 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. 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 alter of one is if the european authorities co-operate and if that case it's your own alternative. 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 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 and 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 the 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. i'm sure old guard you got a story around about this crazy lady with a convertible that honk for every time she. was on death row for nineteen years.

that. the city. has condemned these people as less than human it is necessary to punish crime and everything we do to punish crime is unpleasant. but it needs to be done well but he wants to be linked to the nazis but the historical antecedents of the american death penalty today in large part from the nazis and the saddest part is to take this gets their way and they execute him and i won't be allowed to touch him until after he's dead he. anytime i leave the house. and he keeps telling me they can't hear me and they are. blocked from concrete but i still honk everytime i go by.

i won't be there i will not witness for killing my for culture is that so much i'm afraid we're going to make it a lot of people a variant of the look at lunch time for the world with the greek economy in tatters and spain on the financial the future of the monetary union looks anything but bright. hasn't been. on t.v. . it is to get the maximum political impact also for the full source material is worth helps keep journalism honest really beautiful. if we want to present. something else if. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought.

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a liberal crossing live from moscow this is the news channel these are our top stories both the syrian regime and the rebels to lay down arms to prevent the country from sliding into a full scale civil war now this comes as you and observers visit the site of the latest massacre in the city of hama. russia crushes the czech republic for more than its first game as the euro twenty twelve football championship kicks off but there's been controversy too as the host nations ukraine and poland have been accused of human rights abuses and racism. the result of the knife edge tonight experts predict spain could ask for a bailout this early as this weekend but as e.u. powerhouses prosecute the single currency afloat. banking on the past to turn a profit. next here on our. guest discussed the future of the european monetary

union just ahead. please. if you still. owe him a welcome to crossfire computor all about crunch time for the euro with the greek economy in tatters and spain on the financial brain the future of the monetary union looks anything but bright world leaders are calling for quick and decisive action to avoid a doomsday scenario while the european central bank has come out and said the fate of the currency.