the u.n. security council finally reaches consensus on syria details from new york coming up . meanwhile rumors run rife over the fate and future of the embattled syrian president. true or false it is a bashar al assad ready to step down as president of syria i'm sure thomas in moscow and coming up with sort out all of the details. police great angry crowds with tear gas and rubber bullets on the streets of spain as the public rages against the latest wave of a stir he imposed on the country in return for a bank rescue by the e.u. .

live from our new center here in the russian capital this is r.t. with twenty four hours a day where we start with our breaking news story this hour all members of the u.n. security council have voted in favor of a resolution extending the observer mission to syria the mandates being given a final thirty days but could be renewed if certain conditions on that. has the latest now from new york what's the russians reaction to this motion does moscow feel its concerns have been taken into account.

the level of violence must be. one question of course is why then did the u.k. put another resolution to the vote on thursday knowing it would get vetoed. well many believe that it was purposely done because when russia and china did

strike there and you know it didn't play out so well in the media many western media outlets spun this as russia and china backing bashar al assad's government wanting to allow any pressure to be put on. you know being considerate of those that are getting hurt in the violence but that wasn't the case russia and china both said that the u.k. drafted resolution that was vetoed on thursday and supported by other western countries was one side it was only putting pressure on on the syrian government and not putting any pressure consequences on the armed opposition that are participating in the increasing violence also what came out of the meeting today was that u.s. ambassador to the united nations susan rice said that washington will continue an increase to strengthen and intensify its work outside of the security council meaning that the u.s.

will continue working with partners. on what to do with syria because what they want to do in terms of sanctions or any other approaches that would put more pressure on the syrian government is that was not allowed in the security council so it looks like there may be some unilateral moves and pressures that are going to be taken by washington and its western allies. thanks very much indeed for that on . new york one of russia's envoy to the u.n. gave an exclusive live interview to the full version is airing a little late to this hour but you can watch it anytime you like on a website don't come. well in the meantime what this is a reporting large explosions in damascus as the fighting in the capital rages into its fifth day battles are also continuing throughout the country syrian state media claims assad's military forces are one back control over four rebellious districts

in damascus meanwhile the u.n. is trying to verify reports that up to thirty thousand refugees have fled to lebanon in the last forty eight hours and it was claimed the army has launched attacks on border crossings with turkey and the rock which was seized by the rebels yesterday the road to sit with gold heavy shelling and artillery fire. and motion notion has been of course the developments from damascus. free syrian army soldiers are now controlling all four border crossings at the syrian iraqi border but without top official has also sad that the iraqi guards have witnessed extreme boilers from the side of free syrian army soldiers from opposition fighters we've also been able to see the to posted on you tube from this era in turkish border where gunmen have been shouting religious slogans and shooting. portrays a free syrian army has been able to take control over crossings at the border that

means that they they are very determined in large scale operation against 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 have to be very careful with information and even we picture is so we see because since the beginning of this our prize in it's also been media war and just recently 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 and it's functioning normally 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 mall. meant for the syrian capital but the clashes between the army and the rebels have been taking place in at least five districts all damascus and it's been extremely difficult to get in this district but on thursday we finally managed to do that and what we saw really it's

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 all of the 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 and 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 a maze 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 life has to go on and we have to leave so they're trying to deal with this is just waiting for this nightmare to end this is what they say. they will disturb today told what's happening in syria maria's twitter feed she is one of the few international correspondents still reporting right from the heart of the fighting you can get photos from the scene and firsthand impressions of the notion of the school auntie. word has been going around the president may be ready to deal with some international lets a russian ambassador the statement the official say the diplomats words were misinterpreted by the media. explains. these reports came out from al-arabiya t.v. and this is what russia's a bass or alexander or love is reported to say that there was a meeting here in geneva and at that meeting they adopted

a communique where i hope that they agreed it to allow for a transition of power to a more democratic regime of bashar al assad was apt that meeting he agreed to this communicate even even appointed a person to work with the opposition and negotiate with the opposition and agreed to to leave and do so in a cordial manner now what we have now confronted with the russian diplomatic mission in paris which is where ambassador all of his association he says that these words were taken out of context and it says the meaning of the ambassador's words were that bashar al assad can stay in power and he could go but this is a decision that can be made not by the u.n. security council not by anyone else but only by the president himself and the by the syrian people certainly there's always rumors in fact it's hard to believe anything that comes out of syria unless you can personally see it for yourself

because there's lots of different sources of information and misinformation as a word we've heard that bashar al assad has fled damascus we've also heard that assad has been injured and just immediately after those reports came out there were pictures of assad perfectly fine having not been injured also reports of assad's wife coming here to moscow and about those rumors the foreign ministry here in russia has said on the general idea of rumors that the world is usually awash with rumors these rumors tend to game some information around and spread very fast i would not like to comment on any rumors today i think that it is a very honest information trap and that we should be careful not to fall into it so basically a lot of information out there lots of misinformation out there and telling people to be careful what they believe. sean thomas reporting there from central moscow well more news and videos are available for you right now any time you like dot com

and here are some of the stories that are waiting for you at the moment the war between u.s. officials and whistleblowers intensifies as defense secretary leon panetta tightens the screws on american media all the details of that plus. more than a third of children living near japan's crippled nuclear power plant could suffer from cancer in the future a shocking report has revealed online. and is israel planning to use the ball gehry a bomb attack on tourists as a pretext for war with iran. for extensive analysis of the possible consequences of the tragedy. police have used rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse angry protesters from in

the streets of spain dozens of people were injured and a number of activists detained during the latest nationwide. demonstrations in a major shift strength hundreds of thousands have been taking part in the protests people marched in eighty cities across the country to protest against more suffocating the stars which is to come that's after the german parliament gave the green light to the one hundred billion euro bailout for the country's battered banks to ease finance ministers have approved the conditions for the financial lifeline to madrid which call for the strict monitoring of the banks that received eight. del close associate of just that university believes the situation in spain is only going to go from bad to worse. what we're seeing is a massive transfer of public private debt into public debt and that's that's where it really begins to harm the actual citizens of spain it's this sort of this these plans. are not even being done on a large enough scale to really have any effect any positive effect for working

people in spain when you take their food you take all that they have take their homes and they respond quite viscerally i mean yesterday you know we what we saw in madrid for instance wasn't you know violent an artists and a group that decided to burn a bunch of dumpsters what we saw were police charging against other police protesting police we saw them charging against firemen and women we saw them charging against public sector workers and chasing them through the streets of madrid and you know neighborhood neighborhoods in madrid the actual people that live there were actually throwing flower pots from the balconies at the police now that's a qualitative change from what we've seen over the last year in spain certainly you see people living in a.t.m. and a.t.m. buildings right in the late t.m. services and you see them living out in the streets looking in the in the trash you know for food i mean these are people that two years ago were working ok and they

were working and maintaining families and now they're very livelihoods are threatened and of course tensions are going to boil over. spain maybe the fourth launches cone of me but it tops the rings when it comes to the number of unemployed almost six million people who are out of work desperate to find ways to survive some of turning to other countries in the hope of finding a better life but this one seems to as a city reports they might have to go further than neighboring eurozone states. 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 leaping in a street and then i never did before so it's really really nice happening you know i don't want b.b.c. three of them mean i don't want i don't i don't want me being you know is that. i want to work i want to get area the current levels of unemployment on acceptable . it's been if you do it simply cannot see news 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 and when you are within the european institutions too early to be detached from there and you are among the. euro crowds when they see 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 laid by the member states particularly portugal spain and ireland as part of e.u. imposed a stared even powerhouse germany is joining the crunch a local newspaper reported seeing a leaked directive from the labor minutes. tree 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 economies you can't really blame the virtual people they are just a victimless everyone else from you can the system in which they're living on economic policies that 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 just to continue to steady across the e.u.

now substantial budget cuts have also stunted economic growth and job creation but she is a job seeker at exactly the same spot. state dependent and increasingly extreme cases living in desperation telstar sylvia r.t. brussels. court has ruled to extend the pretrial detention of the members of a russian feminist punk rock group until january twenty third teen the three women from the band have been detained on charges of hooliganism and could face up to seven years in prison the suspects were arrested after they broke into russia's biggest cathedral and performed an anti putin song in late february the incident provoked the wrath of the country's patriarch who condemned it as blasphemous while many people staged protests spoke in support and against the actions of the group well earlier this month two members of the trio went on hunger strike the response to what making their treatment. a taste of their own medicine that's what online hackers could face off to british politicians urge security agencies to

start retaliating like for like that means a states like iran could find itself under a fresh software strike similar to that which infected the country's nuclear sites two years ago but as with explains such calls are only highlighting the u.k.'s inability to deal with cyber attacks on the domestic front. if you can't be to join them 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 against cyber attacks additionally the military and spoil agencies should be actively declaring soluble war on enemy states attack evidently is in their view the best form of defense although in this case they're calling it active defense bearers voicing that britain should be secretly hacking into enemy systems using programs like the stuxnet virus which disrupted iran and 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 like using security software and proper passwords cyber attacks of course have another name hacking it's illegal in most countries including the u.k. and britain has its fair share of 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 for his government has refused to protect him maybe if state sponsored hacking becomes the norm that will change. we'll get the latest business news from katie very shortly but first let's have a quick look at some other stories making headlines around the world this hour in our world update at least twelve people being killed and injured after a shooting at a movie premiere in the city of denver a mass gunman rolled a tear gas canister into the cinema before opening fire during a late showing of the new batman film police confirmed to be arrested a suspect who was armed with a knife a rifle and a handgun he's reportedly been identified as a twenty four year old local a motive for the crime is on people that. have reportedly fired tear gas in a violent crackdown on anti-government rallies in the capital of bahrain earlier report suggested the activists have begun blocking roads both in and out of the city the protest movement demanding political reform and an end to the ruling

regime has been ongoing since last february and has already seen more than fifty killed the government's been trying to suppress the opposition by banning rallies and arresting activists. a woman in china is lucky to be alive off to a new escape from a dramatic road accident c.c.t.v. footage showed the. path of a cargo truck which then smashes straight into a scooter could reportedly focus better with lawyers faces prosecution because of the crash. let's now join for the business to microsoft. two words that are often the same sentence. exactly as amazing bow really when you think about it because microsoft they have reported their first quarter coarsely losses gave me since going public and nineteen six now the last tell you after the computing giant took over the online

ad services company is a quantity of it was called now microsoft paid three point six billion dollars for the company which afterwards fell to compete with google now despite the bad news the company is doing well in other areas its revenue rose four percent to eighteen billion dollars in the first quarter so not too much to complain about with stay with us head over to wall street and we can see we've still got the kinds. of concerns really remaining with the european sovereign debt crisis also commodities are really taking a hit in the session today really nosediving on the news that china will not relax property control policies that's having a big effect as well coming from asia so let's get those of european markets and see how they're performing and the last kind of our trade where they as you can see we're looking at losses as the bailout terms of being realized for the spanish economy meanwhile the difference between spanish bonds and german bunds have

a record and the ibex now is trading at around six percent in negative territory that's going to the common currency and see how that is reacting we're now looking at the really week lows one twenty one fifty seven asked. the group although it's finished up trading for the day it was mixed against the basket of currencies will stay with. into the equity markets and we can see that we've got losses as well a lot of that to do with the fact that oil took a poll and we got capital outflows well from russia farms it's reached fifty two million dollars this week despite the short term volatility so far while the seven hundred million dollars has been invested in russia focused films like i mentioned also to see what's happening with the prices just now and they all falling from a nine week high as we can see that we've got light sweet that just over ninety one dollars per hour on the brant around one hundred and six and a half just that now we've seen financial turmoil i've been talking about it we've

just seen the market you know is in capsulated the world is where everyone's talking about and it's becoming increasingly hard for people to find secure investment opportunities where do they put their money well according to a report by citi group russia has all the credentials to lower and big money and that. has. 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 kwame ministry europe while most of it expects negative growth in two thousand and twelve even the strongest economies show a meager rates 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 the global companies with sales in russia. but i'll be back in about fifteen minutes saying if the markets can ready pull out the bag and see if they can perform some guy all right kate looking for that thanks very much indeed now shortly russia's ambassador to the u.n. explains why opposes western backed resolutions on syria our exclusive interview coming your way that will be after the headlines stay with us.

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