that alleged pro i saw admitted tons came in they tied people out they shot they stopped and in an orgy of violence the syrian government has been recruiting that they've called from local residents in in one of these villages asking for help to 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 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 old international media who can hear it from new york from the u.n. security council that both. secretary general ban ki-moon and special envoy to syria call for and have been calling on international community to put more pressure on damascus and i had a sad that his peace plan is not being implemented although these time stressing

that it's not being implemented by both sides and both sides both ground station and syrian government are responsible for what's going on at the same time 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 carvings and hard as the truth of the matter is as you know is that the position groups only. do not only failed to comply to plan but would be clear it is their intention not to do so which is a very dangerous development of a girl and a productive development coffee and i'm sad that 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 said. fourteen being very much against any kind of

intervention other nations that are backing rebels they are already interfering into serious internal affairs and not only syria in spain and caused by the concert but also the international community is shaken by concert and is very much divided and there is as to no compromising that. a prominent british journalist just back from syria claims rebels set him a deliberately to be killed by the syrian army alex thomson from channel four news described r t what he calls a stunt by opposition fighters to deal a propaganda blow to the assad regime. we would deliberately out of that way which they knew they the rebels you would change and we would lead. you to be one. that killed the go down the route which looked dangerous to us but we trusted them that we would go down the route. we turned and down the road was

blocked that was a roadblock if. there was nobody around and about point who was to do that in the vehicle around in a free fire zone and one round with duty pride that would definitely be a dangerous situation and i'm certainly no doubt they did it deliberately my point . but america you don't have to be very clever to work out the bits of any journalist. syrian army are going to be an appalling blow again. nobody's going to play all the way to moscow all the way to beijing i mean anybody support the regime and the regime is involved in this but you have to know clearly that is going to be a bad thing in terms of propaganda so the motivation for the rebels would come find that it's it seems to me very obvious you know this is the war these things will be be done. the euro two thousand and twelve football championship in ukraine in

poland is kicked off with a polish team drawing against greece and a remarkable win for russia richard ben was at the match. four years ago in austria and switzerland russia got off sort of worst possible start you could imagine the loss for ones of eventual winners spain and the big question marks really about war with russia could do it the tournament switchgear eventually got to the semifinals well four years on him poland and ukraine russia have started with a very very good for one victory against their opponents from the czech republic while russia's preparations about three weeks ago played free woman in that final woman match can be digitally free meal which is a really big confidence boost for the team and it really in relaxed mood since that landed in warsaw and traveled here down here ross love about the game itself in the rush of a really dominated from around the fifteen minute mark didn't start too well. they really took a stranglehold of the game the attacking trio of under their shard and islands of glory of an alexander character called really causing the czech defense no end of

problems and it was really no surprise the russia did eventually manage to open the scoring for about money is a good way of and they go to up later in the first half of the czechs did manage to pull a goal by but given the intervention of roman publishing they really did give the russians a boost and he provided the go over to seconds ago it would eventually go on to win the man of the match and it was not a tank and so we were suffering for a bit of a gruelling injury early in the week when he started but he's back to full fitness as he grabbed a fourth to get russia rid of a fantastic start and some really big boost for take out the guardsmen have played so well in this march against the czech republic has me go into the rest of their games the next match of course being in poland on the twelfth of june which is a national holiday in russia should be a fantastic atmosphere in warsaw. but the championships have also courted controversy with some delegates boycotting the group stages over human rights violations and widespread allegations of racism from the home fans artie's kate partridge has more on that. 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 a 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 their game 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 hates 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 now the referee has the right to stop the game should any player 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 its 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 hotel use in ukraine pushing

up their prices apparently a ten. bolding crease well this didn't impress the say you wife of president michel platini he called some of these hotel years raucous he didn't mince his words but the watchword here is ukrainian hospitality they will this tournament to remember to be remembered as one that was first of all everybody is welcome of all nations all creeds and to enjoy the football and the focal will be the priority not the political issues not the social issues the focus. it wasn't all about football ukrainian city of lowballed where fans were attacked right after russia's victory over the czech republic the incident happened outside a fan zone as russian supporters emerged head chanting slogans celebrating the victory of some of those involved are reported to have been wearing the shares of the ukrainian national team police broke up the fight and handcuffed one of the attackers of all who would be staging germany versus portugal later saturday. spain teetering on the edge of a financial abyss with the e.u. sources claiming it could be on the verge of asking for a bailout madrid's credit score has been slashed while its borrowing costs soared

close to the level that forced greece and portugal and ireland to seek rescue but is eurozone powerhouse to try and keep the single currency afloat one irish town is banking on the past to turn a profit or tease 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 has turned voters which you can go and spend cross the road unsupervised you are in the crib or go for a drink up the town it's a great scheme for the child it means all the money remains in 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. a lot of people come from from fast especially they are on from people from the phantom zone us have a complication. 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 let alone . kind of profits it's not just tone of the town as the whole concert has suffered with the stars he measures with the. new water charges which are common in shorty's 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. we have to do 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 and looking back for its. closeness and. remember all the latest stories are also a click away at r.t. dot com here's what's online for you right now the son of u.s.

presidential hopeful wrong paul has thrown his support behind republican front runner mitt romney even though he admits his father has always been his approach towards. keeping their eye on the ball ukrainian feminist stage and they could protest against the euro two thousand and twelve football championship and the surge in the sex trade they say it brings. the residents of a scottish village and a dollar and a u.s. town named boring are trying not to live up to the names find out how at r t dot com. in egypt thousands have flooded the capital's tahrir square demanding ahmed shafik mubarak's ex prime minister be banned from the election runoff next week protesters are angered by shifts close ties to the old regime and the military they see his candidacy as a threat to the revolution human rights activists helmi thinks 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 did think that we should someone like that should feet in the same bus as. morsi they are not as corrected as someone like should think for example the military council has a huge influence on the entire process the elections is under their supervision and icing gets. 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 word species so i think that they wouldn't allow he wouldn't know some resolution a candidate or someone who is changing the status coop to come into power through

elections demonstrators breaking the protest regulations in russia will now have to pay higher fines after a lengthy parliamentary debate president putin sign the bill into law now people found guilty of violations could face penalties of around seven thousand euros r t zero piskun are reports from the kremlin. 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 clinton said that he thinks this law fully corresponds with western european standards and is aimed at protecting citizens from the radicals just to remind you the initial draft of this law was introduced after laws brought 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 new rule of law in russia and also if we just study the actions and behavior of the opportunities at all just rallies since the police who are largely criticized after that to a 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 the police in the west act much more aggressively event what we see at some of the boldest rallies here in russia. now to some other stories making headlines across the globe a bomb attack on a bus carrying government staff killed nineteen and wounded dozens in northwest pakistan the vehicle was near the city of peshawar when the bomb hidden inside exploded the blast was the latest reminder of active militancy in the region despite a significant fall in violence over the last few years no group has yet said it's behind the attack. seven un peacekeepers from nigeria were killed in an attack in

ivory coast they were patrolling the region of tie that was really recently reinforced because of threats against civilians u.n. chief ban ki moon has constructed condemn the killing strongly and demanded those responsible be brought to justice speculation as lead some to believe supporters of president laurent gbagbo might be behind the attack. the u.n. nuclear watchdog says no progress has been reached in talks over iran's controversial nuclear 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 in moscow. riot police in bahrain's capital manama used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse crowds of thousands of anti-government protestors it's the largest demonstration in more than a year of unrest in the island kingdom no reports of casualties from the clashes

the shiite led opposition is pushing for greater rights and reforms from the country's sunni rulers. about thirty prisoners including taliban fighters fled from a jail in northern afghanistan officials say they've recaptured sixteen of them others still at large inmates escaped after a detonating explosive that destroyed a watchtower guards opened fire on the jail breakers killing three and injuring dozens. up next artie's interview with u.s. economist and politician mark weisbrot telling r t what he thinks his what he what he thinks is going wrong right now in europe.

i. 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 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 there 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 it's just talk the rest of europe is also contributing to this but they're there they're 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 and create your own and they can. do what the fed did here they can lower the interest rates and even guarantee a certain interest rate the spanish care. 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 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 to deepen 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 state oblio 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. well we 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 turf one is if the european authorities

co-operate and if that case of term alternative is very easy the e.c.b. can actually just buy 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 following 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 all 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. wolf

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the u.n. monitors in. getting reports of a massacre near hama in syria find evidence of human remains and burned homes this is pressure builds on both sides of the conflict to lay down their arms but then to violence rallies across the country an increasing condemnation from a broad. brush or crushes to the czech republic for the wanted its first game as the euro two thousand and twelve football championship kicks off there's also controversy as host nations ukraine and poland face accusations of human rights abuses and racism. the euro zone on a knife a knife edge experts predict spain could ask for a bailout this week at the move is expected to aid the country's banks and follows a credit rating slip. up next spot light on. the nuclear

nonproliferation activists president of the luxembourg forum on preventing nuclear catastrophe spotlight next. in june this year the german capital ousting the anniversary conference of the luxembourg forum on preventing nuclear catastrophe leading. leaders and that some politicians from around the globe have gathered here to validate the actual threat.