scope. double veto from russia and china at the u.n. as they block the use of force against the syrian regime heavy border clashes in the country continue to rage. on here in damascus ought to crew has managed to get into the city neighborhoods where the clashes between the army and rebels have been continuing full five diets we saw just ahead. angry crowds are met with rubber bullets and tear gas in spain as the public events frustration applique countries policy of more costs in return for bank rescue by the e.u. . and here are also investors turned soup pessimism as crude prices fall off a nine week old business and twenty three that's. also name and

blame israel now accuses iran's ally has a block of attacking israeli tourists in bulgaria and killing six people. hello and thank you for joining r.t. it is eleven o'clock here in moscow i'm karen tara well the u.n. 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 pour not 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 dilution 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 the russian ambassador to the united nations vitaly churkin did address the media saying that

there is still time for the security council to reach a consensus but he said that russia would not support any moves or pass 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. that the major geopolitical. 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 turkish 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 on they go into each other the first that 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 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 our two russian ambassador to the u.n. and explained why he has the country said no to the western backed resolution and

the crucial vote on syria you can catch that interview in about twenty five minutes time right here on our team. meanwhile a fierce clashes continue across syria as rebels managed to seize border crossings with iraq and one into turkey the opposition fighters are now trying to build on the momentum gained by fierce clashes in the capital and wednesday's bomb attack that killed top syrian military officials arches marina murtha national has the details. free syrian army soldiers are now controlling all four border crossings at the syrian iraqi border but the top official has also said that the iraqi guards have witnessed extreme violence from the side of free syrian army soldiers from opposition fighters we also been able to see be to post it on you tube from the syrian turkish border where gunmen have been shouting religious slogans and shooting. portrays

a free syrian army has been able to take control over things at the border that means that they they are very determined in large scale operation against the regime of president bashar al assad but that doesn't necessarily mean that this will keep in this control because everything changes very fast we've been here on the ground 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 of the clashes between the army and the gravels have been taking place in at least five districts over damascus and it's been extremely difficult to get in side these districts but on thursday we finally managed to do that and what we saw really devastating destroyed streets abandoned houses no people of variously and many many traces of war and of very fierce clashes we've even seen many tracks of

tanks and although 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 suburb 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 something talking to people and of course it's been very sad. to see how different the picture is right now people are trying to deal with this situation and we are in mazed how brave they are in this situation facing horror of war that has come to their 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 live has to go on and we have to leave so they're trying to do with this is just waiting for this nightmare to end this is what they say professor

lawrence davidson from west chester university in the u.s. says that if the international community really wants to stop the violence in syria it has to put pressure on those sponsoring the rebels. this u.n. resolution was something of a red herring. because it wouldn't have made much difference on the ground the british ambassador to the u.n. made a statement that said that. the resolution would have helped save lives i think this is just utter fantasy i think from the american standpoint why into being openly when it's possible that the regime might fall just through clandestine intervention in direct intervention and if the british and the americans and the french want to save lives all they have to do is put pressure on the saudis and qataris and others to stop running guns into this area and tell you how rebel.

lawrence davidson their history professor at west chester university in the u.s. . 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 the crowds are furious at the public spending is once again being slashed in response to rescuing the banks the german parliament to gave the green light 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 what the western world we have 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 and installing their own technocrats so you know the 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 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 the 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 afield the neighboring euro zone states are just as arsenal as 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 leaving in a street and i never did before so it's really really nice happening you know i don't want b.b.c. korean families i don't want i don't i don't want to. be you know is that.

i want to work i want to get to. the current levels of unemployment around acceptable. it's a big deal it simply cannot continue this way and it also leads to reliance on state subsidies a plight faced by job seekers across all sectors and all levels of society and when you are within the european institutions too early to be detached from there and you are among the. euro crowd 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 u.s g.d.p. was devoted to social benefits seen as a heavy burden on a crisis stricken in 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 joining 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 it's been attributed as an attempt to curb abuse of the system by discouraging immigration from struggling economies you can't really blame the virtual people they are just a victim and so if you want from you can on the system in which they're living and you can also use the many of those who don't town thoughts turn to the state for unemployment benefits which may be reduced a bit as a bit already due to continue to sturdy across the e.b.u. no substance at budget cuts have also stunted economic growth and job creation which leaves the job seeker at exactly the same spot jobless state dependent and increasingly extreme cases living in desperation just are still there are to

brussels and still to come this hour attack or self defense the u.k. could declare a cyber war on its enemies with m.p.'s calling for the aggressive use of hurting to protect the country's interests even though it's illegal. mounting foreign threats see china pumping billions into amassing weapons promoting fears of a new arms race. it's fourteen minutes past the hour and israel is now blaming hezbollah all the lebanese ally of iran for carrying out an attack on a bus with israeli tourists in bulgaria which left six stet earlier israeli pm benjamin netanyahu said all signs point to iran with refusing the accusations rather refuted refuting them as baseless but the standoff between the two seems to have reached new heights as our poll slayer reports. but no 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 of iran in the region and while this is no secret certainly everybody here does know that hizbullah is a proxy for iran and the fact that an attorney who 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 attacked to have been behind attacks on israelis in countries like thailand georgia greece and cyprus in the past not israel has tried to deal with his bill on 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 on yahoo is going to try and use the bus bombing on the winds day as a pretext for perhaps attacking his fellow once again but the timing could not be worse you've gone to a region in flux you've got on growing 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 protest is 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 these ratings on the streets and at the same time this week the largest israeli political party. the ruling coalition of netanyahu says that he has problems to deal with on the domestic front political

analyst kamel waltz name believes netanyahu is claims are nothing more than a rotter aimed at improving his own standing. that has made it very clear that they are not going to use tourist in eastern europe to carry out. the really and i think very clear statement they're against killing i mean civilian or whether it is an israeli or other people but i think mr netanyahu always tried to play the iranian card the hezbollah card to remind the international community that he has and i mean it comes to the point because the nuclear file. always wanted to keep it light it's merely rhetoric and i wouldn't put a lot of money on what netanyahu will say and he's very good at what he does or using this a broad background to gain popularity inside of israel but i think at this point

the region is on fire and i think the last things that every indian or hizbullah will take you know a shot of million israeli which clearly they will not target. israel iran and other countries the u.s. and europe could find themselves on very fresh but unconventional attack british m.p.'s say the u.k. should declare cyber war on states and organizations which target it by carrying out aggressive hacker attacks itself. if you can't beat him join him that seems to be britain's new attitude when it comes to dealing with attacks a new report by the u.k.'s intelligence and security commission has concluded it's not enough to defend. attacks additionally the military and spy agencies should be actively declaring some. enemy state attack evidently is in their

view the best form of defense although in this case they're calling it active defense. barry voicing that britain should be secretly hacking into enemy systems using programs like the stuxnet virus which disrupted iran its nuclear enrichment program it comes just two years after the launch of a six hundred fifty million pounds national soluble security program but progress according to the m.p.'s on the committee has been slow the national security strategy ranks the threat of cyber attacks alongside that of terrorism and yet this committee of m.p.'s seems fully prepared to engage in it itself this despite the fact that the report says the communications agency g c h q believes eighty percent of cyber attacks all preventable three basic measures using security software and proper post. cyber attacks of course have another name hacking it's illegal in most

countries including the u.k. and britain has its hacking case is currently in the courts including that of autism suffer a gary mckinnon who's been fighting his extradition to the us for hacking into the pentagon's computer system for ten years now so far his government has refused to protect him maybe if state sponsored hacking becomes the norm that will change. no cyber war is here on our t.v. or on our website r.t. dot com we have only the latest news and videos here's what we have 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 to american servicemen and volved 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 available right now at our dot com. 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 allocating billions toward its military budget at the expense of public spending artie's aleksey at a show of ski reports. meijer is 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 mordant 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 the aging 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. on poverty 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 importer 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 contain china wants to encircle china and keep it subservient to us that this situation draws historic 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. they're becoming more of an economic group if we continue. we could. be going on ever since the fifty's. you would agree. so it's the historians agree the collapse of the u.s.s.r. was caused by many factors and the gulf between rich and poor as the economy 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 of the weisse there is serious risk of growing political and social instability. reporting from beijing in china. earlier we were reporting on the staggering unemployment figures in parts of europe but even those who are employed are concerned about their future we can cross now with our business desk marina is live marina why is that well basically what we have there is people concerned that a lot of money will have to go from their salaries to counterbalance the budget deficit the increase in taxes that's what it would lead to but i'll get to that in a second force if europe takes off its predecessor so let's go and. when i say let's go let's have a look on the screen right there next to me as you can see the footsie and the bags are losing value right now and investors are really reacting to what we saw happen on thursday nights germany's approval for

a bailout for the spanish banking sector also with manufacturing data coming out from the midwest overnight but many investors hope that this will push and build a case a stronger case for u.s. monetary easing which is of course what everyone wants to see if we take a look at currencies the euro is struggling against the u.s. dollar leeson mally when it comes to the ruble it's the again and again both major currencies now focus on the u.s. for on the u.k. i should say for second here the international monetary fund has britain's economy risks from permanent damage through this financial crisis in fact it's said and i quote here that it suggests of the country should step up public investment and also potentially relax its austerity measures and earlier we spoke to martz and bag from the capital research economic solutions consultancy and he said what extended spending cuts like what was announced by u.k. prime minister david cameron extending them once all twenty twenty. people have been expecting a couple of years of tax rises and spending cuts extended even for this bill to

have a dampening effect on confidence and people's willingness to go out and spend 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. talk choice of spending cuts about for growth in the short run. maybe i need to be more emphasis on what we do to stimulate economic activity and get tax revenues up couldn't reduce social security spending and so on and reduce the deficit. and with the markets present as a misstep from the lady in the air. as you can see the nikkei is down almost one and a half percent there when the high sign said in just a bit and. it's slipped into negative territory only in the past hour so you still might see things turn around as a closes i'll give you the figures for that next hour as i said investors mainly reacting to news coming from the u.s. and europe at the moment we're going to take a look at crude prices now fallen off from annoying week prior and this is having a major effect on russian investors and will see that it's still in most of the

negative territory as example take a look at the latest numbers for the arts yes and the mindset that are about to change there we have a. half a percent of the similarly with my side here again with crude prices always a major fight for the russian economy but also haven't said all of this investors are struggling to find work support the cash right now the focus or have it not really but according to a new report by banking giant citigroup russia has all the credentials to lure in the big bucks as i said. tells us why that is. the eurozone crisis is three years in the making and there is no end in sight so working retail investors safely park their money to wait out the storm banking giant citi group says russia why while the answer is simple russia's economy is stronger and has more potential than most european economies see for yourself russia's g.d.p. may grow as much. four percent this year that's according to the economy ministry

and europe while most of it expects negative growth in two thousand and twelve even the strongest economies show a meager operates 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 when they 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 that business r.t. well karen are suffering lots of the world over the years ago that invests in

russia is better than in europe or in the u.s. but then of course russian investors are the fully happy about that slowly but surely thank you charlie russia's ambassador to the un explains why moscow opposes western backed resolutions on syria that's after the headlines with me. oh.