he starts on t.v. dot com. a double veto from russia and china at the un as they block the use of force against the syrian regime fall heavy border clashes in the country continue to rage . angry crowds are met with rubber bullets and tear gas in spain as the public events frustrating ch'ien out the country's policy of more costs in return for bank rescue by the you. also name and blame israel now accuses iran as allying hezbollah of attacking israeli tourists in bulgaria and killing six people.

on screen in all mine twenty four hours a day seven days a week this is r t with me karen tara well the un security council has agreed to disagree on syria russia and china have vetoed another attempt by western states to push a resolution threatening sanctions and use of force against the assad regime now the extension of the u.n. observer mission in syria is at stake as artie's marina portnoy reports. russia has said for from the get go that he would not support any resolutions on syria that would include the potential of sanctions being imposed or even military intervention this western backed resolution that was drafted by the u.k. called on damascus to immediately seize any kind of fighting and the use of heavy weapons and withdraw from populated centers and the resolution gave the

syrian government ten days to comply with those demands otherwise sanctions would be imposed. what was attached to that illusion is a forty five day extension of the u.n. supervision mission in syria so that is quite clear why russia would not give its support to this western backed resolution because it was putting all the pressure and consequence on the syrian government and not putting any pressure consequence on the armed opposition that are part that's participating in the violence in syria that has been increasing as we've seen over the past seventeen months so the russian ambassador to the united nations vitaly churkin did address the media saying that there is still a time for the security council to reach a consensus but he said that russia would not support any any moves or past for military intervention into syria and he also warned western countries may be trying to destabilize syria to possibly of move further in and around iran

to make you know to the lesions to you there is no. do. about it that the major geopolitical about. is being pulled on the fields of sudan which has nothing to do with the interests of the syrian people the clock is ticking because if this mandate expires and it is not renewed then that means that the united nations would not have any force in syria that is. verifying what is taking place on the ground what you came back to the un said is that they have drafted britain has drafted a new resolution that was over the u.n. mission in syria for a final thirty days and that is something which the security council is considering but according to the circuit there are still very many questions surrounding this new drama that has been proposed by britain the british draft is in many ways.

because it has only two q but that it goes and they go into each other the first but are going to says that it's the final extension of thirty days and the second but it was said that the mission can be extended provided certain conditions are being made in the united nations at the end of the day does need a mission in the ground because if that mission is removed then the situation in syria can get worse without any objective reporting that's tied to the u.n. in an exclusive interview with r t russian ambassador to the u.n. vitaly churkin explained why the country said no to the western backed resolution and the crucial vote on syria you can see it on this channel throughout the day right here on our team meanwhile fierce clashes continue across syria rebels managed to seize all four border crossings with iraq and one into turkey now position fighters are now trying to build on the moment and gained by fierce clashes in the capital and wednesday's bomb attack that killed many top syrian

military officials let's get the details now from archies marie of the national who is in damascus for us marie i understand it's very hard to hear but the syrian rebels have managed to seize several border posts what are the details at the moment. paul kerin this is exactly what we're hearing right now from iraqi deputy interior minister that free syrian army soldiers are now controlling all four border crossings at the syrian iraqi border but without top official has also said that the iraqi guards have witnessed extreme violence from the side of free syrian army soldiers from opposition fighters that they exert executive several iraqi guards in front of the eyes of their colleagues there this is what we are hearing so far although no more details we have also been able to see posted on you tube from another crossing border crossing this time from this era in

turkish border where gunmen have been shouting religious slogans and. portrays and this is apparently the border crossing at the turkish syrian border which is also now under control of the free syrian army soldiers but i have to point to things here very important things this is war and the fighting is still going on it is continuing and from time to time sides can see success and this success could be temporary so. if free syrian army. has been able to take control over some crossings at the border that means a lot that they they are very determined in. large scale operation against a regime of president bashar al assad but that doesn't necessarily mean that there's still keep in this control because everything changes very fast and right now we're hearing for example that they've lost control over this turkish border

crossing and nothing very important is that we have to be very careful with information and even with picture is. we see and we are hearing because since the beginning of this our. it's also been media war and we've hearing we've been hearing many many information that. has never been confirmed just recently when these assault this operation large scale operation by position started here in damascus we've been hearing from opposition that they've managed to take control over the airport just yesterday we were at the airport here in damascus that it's functioning normally it's open and everything is ok there and we've also been hearing that they've managed to shut down syrian army helicopters and this information has. been confirmed so we have to be very careful with what we are hearing and it's it's very difficult and hard to understand exactly

what's going on camera you're obviously live in damascus now and you have been there for the last few days it certainly has become a scene of clashes between the government and rebel forces tell us how are people on the ground coping with the violence that's reached the capital what have you seen. what we've been here on the ground not for for a few days but for almost fifty days already and i have to say what we've been able to see in the last five days has been the most dramatic moment for the syrian capital where the clashes between the army and the rebels have been taken place in a least five districts over to mask and it's pretty extremely difficult to get in side these districts but on thursday we've finally managed to do that it's not only . difficult to to go there because it's dangerous obviously but also because it's very hard to find anybody ready to get to their fellow thursday we've managed to do

that and what we saw really it's a devastating. destroyed street abandoned houses no people of real sleep and many many traces of war and a very fierce clashes. we've even seen many tracks of tanks and not totally on the roads but on what used to be the cars obviously all shops are closed and we have to understand that these districts are not remote. damascus it's not far from the center of the city center we've been here for one the month now and we've been to these districts many times. by and something talking to people and of course it's been very sad to see how different the picture is right now in this district so it's changed the situation has changed here very very quick but you've asked me about people people are trying to deal with this situation and

we are in a maze tao how brave they are in this situation facing horror of war that has come to the home they say yes we know it is happening right now here in damascus and in our country it's been here for seventeen months already but we cannot do anything with these and life has to go on and we have to leave so they're trying to do with this and they just try to organize their ordinary life as if nothing happened just waiting for this nightmare to end this is what they say all right live from damascus here artie's correspondent marie if an ocean of course you can always follow her live updates on twitter at and underscore r t thank you. angry protesters were met with tear gas and rubber bullets on spanish streets as they marched against more planned austerity a number of people were injured and detained clashes followed massive peaceful demonstrations which were joined by hundreds of thousands of people across spain

people are furious that public spending is once again being slashed in response to rescuing the banks the german parliament gave the green light for the one hundred billion euro bailout on thursday current affairs journalist charlie mcgrath says the european governments are betraying their people in europe just like the rest of the world you know the what the western world we have the a system that is putting the onerous fraudulent debt of a bunch of private institutions on the back of the people now they're calling it austerity and then a lot of people are you know they're completely frustrated they have nowhere else to turn in a lot of the signs even say we have nothing else that we can do other than take to the streets there is no representative government where there are there happens to be politicians that want to stand up on behalf of the people you know we have the european community deposing them in installing their own technocrats so they don't be heavy handed tactics you know bought and paid for security that's going to go

out and quell the rabble if the government decided to do the right thing by the people of the country i think there would be understanding that we're going to all go through the west the united states europe the entire planet is going to go through some tough economic times but when you have politicians going forward and saying well you know what we're going to take more of your financial future so we can give it to a bunch of banks you know there's going to be reaching a limit of understanding by the citizenry of the world almost six million people in spain are out of a job struggling to find the means to support themselves and their families some are seeking a better life beyond the borders of their country but it looks like they might have to go further than the neighboring euro zone states artist test ourselves or has the story. twenty four point six million people are without jobs across the european union seventeen point four million of them in the eurozone countries with unemployment at its highest levels of the single currency was introduced in spain

unemployment hit twenty four point three percent the worst rate in the e.u. and among the spanish and greek youth it's more than half. statistics may paint the big picture but they don't quite show the human story real people struggling through each day like this one gary a man who came to belgium three months ago that's taping in a street and then i never did before so it's really really hard to accept any you know i don't want b.b.c. or a family name i don't want i don't i don't want to. be if you know it's that. i want to work i want to get. the current levels of unemployment around acceptable. it's if you do it simply cannot continue this way and it also leads to reliance on state subsidies a polite face by job seekers across all sectors and all levels of society when you

are within the european institutions too early to be detached from the tea and you are among the. euro kratz when you say unemployment benefits are too high compared to paid salaries this is the wrong way to see the problem most people aren't paid enough for their jobs in two thousand and ten more than twenty five percent of the e.u. g.d.p. was devoted to social benefits seen as a heavy burden on a crisis stricken europe since then various cuts have been made by member states particularly greece portugal spain and ireland as part of e.u. imposed stared even powerhouse germany is joined in the crunch a local newspaper reported seeing a leaked directive from the labor ministry blocking a basic unemployment benefits for people who moved to germany from some e.u. countries and it's been a target as an attempt to curb abuse of the system by discouraging immigration from struggling e.u. economies you can't really blame the individual people they are just

a victim as everyone else from an economic system in which they're living on the economic. many of those who don't have jobs turn to the state for unemployment benefits which may be reduced if it hasn't been already due to continue to sturdy across the e.u. no substantive budget cuts have also stunted economic growth and job creation which leaves the job seeker at exactly the same spot jobless still dependent and increasingly extreme cases living in desperation to answer sylvia artsy brussels. and even those who are employed are having to face the grim reality that they will have to give more of their salary towards tax let's cross now to our business desk . marina with us today now marina you've been speaking to analysts and economists about this what are they saying about the situation some are saying especially those that are associated with violence are saying the board needs to be done is that society needs on the side that they have to incur the losses which is easier

said than done of course but then you have all other economists which insist that now the government should not be focusing on reducing the deficit but should be focusing on growth instead then later on when it's time for the business of that in about ten minutes from now we'll hear what one of them has to say. all right also coming up in the program mounting foreign threats see china pumping billions into amassing weapons promoting fears of a new arms race. israel is now blaming hezbollah the lebanese ally of iran for carrying out an attack on a bus with israeli tourists in bulgaria which has left six dead earlier an israeli pm benjamin netanyahu said all signs pointed out a wrong with refuting the accusations as baseless but the standoff between the two seems to have reached new heights as artie's polis lawyer reports. but minutes on yahoo says that the fault because of this attack that happened on wednesday in the

bulgarian city of burgas is clearly on the shoulders of hizbollah netanyahu says that his bill that acts as the longer more of iran in the region and while this is no secret certainly everybody here does know that hizbullah is a proxy for iran the fact that in a time yahoo is not naming his below is only going to through the stroke tensions in the region israeli prime minister also went on to say that it was no med his head a tactic being behind attacks on israelis in countries like thailand georgia greece and cyprus in the past not israel has tried to deal with his beloved the past but it has failed back in two thousand and six israel went to war with lebanon on over his below but by all accounts that was a war which israel lost at the time it was said that hizbullah a small army of fighters was able to take on the great israeli defense forces and women it gave the arab world back it supplied to some since israel has almost an

say told school call it was his villa and that is why there's a lot of speculation whether or not by now naming his villa this one yahoo is going to try and use the bus bombing on the winds day as a pretext for perhaps attacking his below once again but the timing could not be worse you've gone to a region in flux you've got ongoing violence in neighboring syria you've got for the first time and islamize president in neighboring egypt but netanyahu is also known for often using the international concerns and the international community to do it to detract attention away from problems he has on the domestic front there is the real threat that you will see social protesters growing in number in the coming weeks we need to just remember that last year we saw social demonstrations in this country that's all the largest number of his ratings on the streets and at the same time this week the largest israeli political party to. the ruling coalition of netanyahu says that he has problems to deal with on the domestic front. dot com for

all the latest news and videos here's what's online for you right now more than a third of japanese children who live in the area affected by last year's nuclear plant disaster are likely to suffer from cancer that's revealed in a new report. plus crime but no punishment american servicemen involved in a prostitution scandal during president obama's visit to colombia in april will reportedly not face any criminal charges all the details of this and other stories are available to you right now on our t. dot com the. pressure posed by the u.s. led european missile shield may force china to upgrade its nuclear arsenal a senior chinese military officials comments point to the possible threat of a new arms race the country is already allocated allocating billions towards its military budget at the expense of public spending as artie's on exceed

a ship ski reports. meijers from beijing so a bit in city the economic might off today's china is easy to see but only a few kilometers from here the picture is completely different in some ways the more than the china resembles the soviet union just like the last days of the u.s.s.r. billions are being spent on military needs and despite the seeming economic disparity the gap between the rich and the poor is simply striking in the last year alone the number of poor in china has hit a quarter of a billion but instead of addressing daunting poverty issues beijing is having to buy new weaponry and investing billions into producing its own you have a large army trying this is now the second largest in the world hundred six billion dollars this is an enormous expenditure of wealth. that could make a real impact. and it's also happening at

a time when there's a comic slowdown that is happening. throughout asia the same applies to india which last year was the world's leading weapon in border including an eye watering twenty billion dollars worth of french fighter jets this is why washington's return to asia policy from selling weapons to holding joint war games in the region is deeply troubling countries here especially china the u.s. wants full spectrum dominance in the region in what it wants to project its military power to everyone concerned specially china i think the u.s. may not be headed for a direct military confrontation with china at the moment but the u.s. wants to gain china wants to encircle china and keep it subservient to us that this situation draws the story parallels with the cold war say experts many are still sure that the huge arms race in the one nine hundred sixty s. between the united states in the u.s.s.r. was washington stacked into some of the soviet economy. it became more of an

economic continue. the economy. it's a stupid game. it's been going on ever since and i. think. historians agree the collapse of the u.s.s.r. was caused by many factors and the gulf between rich and poor as the economists tank was just one of them the question now is whether the asian giants can continue growing their military muscle but not at the expense of their people's welfare otherwise there's a serious risk of growing political and social instability. reporting from beijing in china. time now for some more world news in brief for you this hour thousands a british airport border guards are set to walk out of their jobs on the eve of the olympic games in a dispute over pay even without the strike u.k.

airports have been plagued by a long queues as they struggle to cope with the number of visitors a london games have already been hit by a number of embarrassing setbacks but the country forced to draft in thousands of soldiers after a private security firm failed to train enough staff. the u.s. house of representatives has approved a six hundred billion dollar bill for pentagon funding and wars next year the hotly debated bill has seen numerous protests from the democrat minority in the house they say it breaks a spending deal as its eight billion dollars above last year's budget caps the white house had earlier vowed to veto the bill in its current firm form. newly elected egyptian president mohamed morsi has held a historic meeting with hamas chief khalid michel it's being widely seen as a change in egypt's policy towards both palestine and israel as morsi affirmed his

support for the people of gaza which is ruled by hamas the meeting is the first between a delegation from the palestinian movement and the gyptian head of state. lives to the business desk marina i know europe is not trading right now but what's the general sentiment today among the investors well basically what we're seeing now is the reaction to what is happening in europe in the u.s. asia is still the only one trade on right now because we have about half an hour to go until the russian markets open at least if we take a look at the latest figures coming out from asia will see that basically it's a mixed picture the nikkei is set in one of the percent there and as i said investors are folks no weak manufacturing that i threw out from the u.s. yes they have but they hope that this will be the push that is the the. to make sure that the government does u.s. monetary policy and that's what they want to see and also of course germany approved the bailout for the spanish banking sector if we move on and take a look at currencies the euro is still losing against the u.s.

dollars you can see there and the ruble gained against both major currencies on thursday we'll give you the updated figures for that when the russian markets open which as i said will be in the half an hour from now on the thursday and that the session on positive territory if we consider look at the latest figures p.r.c.'s out at over one and a half percent from the crude prices help that yes they bought today crude prices are declining in the last hour of those hours a point in the board spotted by they are down there coming down from a nine week take a look at the crude prices to see that and basically that's amid signs that the demand weaken and also the fact that there's. unexpectedly last week that we have it now let's focus on europe now for a second of course with all the financial turmoil going on and the u.s. . economy economists are speaking out about the spending cuts especially after what we heard yesterday from david cameron announce the spending cuts that will be extended until twenty twenty that's what their forecast is there were earlier we spoke to martin

a back from capital economics research consultancy and he said that it is no good to focus on reducing the deficit they should focus on growth and. people have been expecting a couple of years of tax rises and spending cuts that's extended even further in this battle to have a dampening effect on confidence and people's willingness to go out and spent but i think the danger is that you know to focus on deficit reduction there's not enough of a focus on growth you know arguably tax rises spending cuts are bad for growth for the certain in the short run we maybe need to be more emphasis on what can we do to stimulate economic activity and get tax revenues up and reduce social security spending and so on and reduce the deficit in a kind of less pain that's painful way and while of course the financial turmoil isn't capsule in the world people find it hard to find where to invest their money those of them who do well according to a new research done by banking giant citigroup apparently russia has all the credentials to lure in the big money and its assets and their school has all the details for us. the eurozone crisis is three years in the making and there's no end

in sight so working retail investors safely mark their money to wait out the storm banking giant citi group says russia why while their answer is simple russia's economy stronger and has more potential than most european economies see for yourself russia's g.d.p. may grow as much as four percent this year that's according to the economy ministry europe while most of it expects negative growth in two thousand and twelve even the strongest economies show a meager rate's debt debt related problems are investors nightmares while turns out russia has the lowest levels of government and corporate debt of any country in europe around nine percent the average for the eurozone is ten times that while europe struggling with double digit unemployment russia's jobless rate in may fifth fell to the lowest level in thirteen years and this is stimulating consumption russia's already europe's biggest consumer in many categories and this year is

expected to be the absolute leader germany in terms of course sales how can you capitalize on russia's relative strength citigroup suggests investing into global companies with sales in russia including but not limited to the ones you see here not business r.t. . what we have for you this hour of course russia will open the next hour and i have all the figures of these cells from laffer now back to you karen all right well we look forward to that update marina and an update on our top story as well that's coming your way in a few minutes stay with us. culture

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