the u.n. security council finally reaches consensus on syria details from new york coming up . meanwhile rumors run right over the fate and future of the embattled syrian president. true or false is a bashar al assad ready to step down as president of syria i'm sean thomas in moscow and coming up we sort out all of the details. police greet 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 you twenty four hours a day all members of the u.n. security council a vote in favor of a resolution extending the observer mission to syria the mandates been given the final thirty days but could be renewed if certain conditions are met. has the latest from new york. brush ambassadors of the united nations vitaly churkin says he's a very pleased with the way the vote out friday with his security council unanimously approving a u.k. draft resolution that extends the u.n. supervision mission in syria for a final thirty days investor churkin said this is what russia was hoping for from the very beginning and the vote that took place on thursday of course put a lot of consequences on the syrian government in association with extending the

supervision mission which is why it was vetoed by besser churkin said he was pleased overall that this mission is going to be extended this vote happening just hours before the original mandate was set to expire however there is a bit of contradiction within the text of the resolution because it extends the mission for final thirty days stressing the word final but then it also says that it can be extended if violence decreases in syria a russian ambassador vitaly churkin did address this issue when talking to the meeting out there were explaining to put some sort of pressure on the sides so if they do want to do is to continue then they used to go back to the level of violence well if they wanted to make that signal well i wouldn't want to wouldn't want this particular thing to stand in the way of the option of this resolution even though i believe that it's really it's really going to dictate it and we do

emphasize the continuation of course we also believe that there is a resolution says that the level of oneness must be reduced on all sides and behold this is going to happen to russia and china both said that the u.k. drafted resolution that was vetoed on thursday and supported by other western countries was one sided 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 and increase 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 in pressures that are going to be taken by washington and its western allies report that ahead of the vote russia's envoy to the un vitaly churkin gave an exclusive interview to be . and the full version is entering later but you can also watch it anytime on our website dot com. in the meantime what this is 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 won 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 activists claim the army is launched attacks on border crossings with turkey and iraq which was seized by the rebels yesterday the raids are said to involve heavy shelling and artillery fire that is written

ocean has been keeping of course developments in 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 violence 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 the syrian turkish border where gunmen have been shouting religious slogans and shooting. assad's 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 with 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 it's 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 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 a very fierce clashes we've even seen many tracks of tanks and all of the

not totally on the roads but on the wards used to be the cars obviously all shops are closed and we have to understand that these districts are not remote. damascus suburb 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 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 it 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 is just waiting for this nightmare to end this is what they say. to stay up to

date on what is happening in syria maria's twitter feed she's 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 on the school party. meanwhile what has been going around the president may be ready to step down with some international news outlets a russian ambassador a statement the fischel say the diplomats words were misinterpreted by the media thomas explains. these reports came out from al-arabiya t.v. and this is what russia's a baster alexander or love is reported to say that there was a meeting here in geneva and at that meeting they adopted a communique where help there they agreed 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 a station that 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 that 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 ground 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. more news and video is available for you anytime at r.t. dot com that's our website online all the time here are some of the stories that are waiting for you there at the moment more than a third of children living in japan's crippled nuclear power plant could suffer from cancer in the future a shocking report has revealed online. israel planning to use the 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 throwing the streets of spain dozens of people were injured in the number of activists detained during the latest nationwide and historically demonstrations and a major show of strength hundreds of thousands have been taking part in the protests people marched in eighty cities across the country to protest against war suffocating austerity which is to come after the german parliament gave the green light to the one hundred billion euro bailout for the country's battered banks the finance ministers of approved the conditions for the financial lifeline to madrid which call for the strict monitoring of the banks that received aid carlos del

close a sociologist at 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 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

lived 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 little a.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 may be the fourth largest economy but it tops the ranks when it comes to the number of unemployed almost six million people are out of work at the moment desperate to find ways to survive in some of turning to other countries in the hope of finding a better life but as a city reports they might have to go no further than neighboring euro zone 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 leaving in a street and then i never did before so it's really really hard i accept any you know i don't want to be sued for it to mean i don't want i don't i don't want to. be it you know is that. i want to work i want to get. the current levels of unemployment around acceptable. it's a big baby 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 there and you are among the. crowds 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.'s 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 greece portugal spain and ireland a sportive e.u. imposed a stary even powerhouse germany has joined in the crunch a local newspaper reported seeing a leaked directive from the labor minutes. tree blocking 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 individual people they are just a victim a servant one else from economic system in which they are living and you can policies that many of those who don't tell jobs turn to the state for unemployment benefits which may be reduced if it hasn't been already to continue to steady across the e.u. a substantial budget cuts have also stunted economic growth and job creation but since the job seeker at exactly the same spot. state dependent and increasingly extreme cases living in desperation to answer sylvia r.t. brussels. a moscow court has ruled to extend the pretrial detention of the members of a russian feminist punk rock group until general twenty thirteen 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 incident provoked the wrath of the country's patriarch who condemned this blasphemous and many people staged protests both in support and against the actions of the group earlier this month two members of the trio went on hunger strike in response to what they call fair treatment. whistle blows haven't exactly been flavor of the month with u.s. authorities but the government is now fighting back defense secretary leon panetta has ordered the pentagon to monitor a major news media in the country for disclosures of secret information but to get some further analysis reaction i'm not joined live by gilbert mercer he's editor in chief of the news junky post dot com in california. this morning isn't just by the government but the military involved the pentagon now you're a journalist what do you make of of all. well i really think it's. constitutional. to go. play dumb of speech

i mean i think it's sort of like going back to the notion. that you know there are. places. you know the always notion of money joining the media was. beyond clothes. you know. and also you know it's all it's all it's all gone in sequence it's all done in. the us media the mainstream media is good enough. sawing themself anyway so it's going to be it's going to be calling on the world what is interesting this is aimed towards the mainstream media and also us i assume organizations like yourselves who are on line web sites which are probably quite

difficult to regulate but try and control mainstream media. surely it's very powerful in the us isn't the media going to fight back. well i strongly or we're going to try but i mean the issue is you know we as everybody know we mean all of an electoral complain and it was mentioned that actually the the quote on quickly. are just quoted by the white house to make themselves look better so it's kind of a you know it's a little bit of a bloody mess it's going to i think it's going to have everybody and it's again you know it's. it's on up down to got all the the freedom of the freedom of speech well if the government if the government just wants care is worried about the leaking of secret information isn't the government full to allow the secret information to be leaked in the first place they are they just want to leak problem things and

prevent other things to be leaked you know it's sort of like the way. when you watch the ice cover which. you know big news organisation in the u.s. like c.n.n. on. the coverage of the our coverage of what's going on with the iran it's it is. i mean it's basically when you watch the moment and when you work of your gun use you you don't when you feel like you're watching us i mean it's. sort of you feel like you watching to do. it it is interesting you mention that the likes of c.n.n. what if they are in breach of some sort of regulation is there any idea of what penalty that could be imposed an organization like that i mean could they be closed down if they breach regulations and leak what is deemed

a secret information. they could have a penalty but i don't think. sons of i just lost you there actually are you still there but. there we go maybe somebody not enjoy our conversation we're having at the moment we've been cut short in our tracks there that was. editor in chief for news junkie post dot com talking about the freedom of speech and that was right there let's take a look at some other stories making headlines around the world now this hour here on at least twelve people being killed and thirty eight injured after a shooting at a movie premier in the u.s. city of denver a mass gunman rolled a tear gas canister into the cinema before opening far during a late showing of the new batman film three police arrested a suspect who was armed with a knife a rifle and handgun he's been identified as a twenty four year old local

a motive for the crime is on. the government. thousands of anti-government protesters have clashed with police in bahrain reports say battles have gone on in several places around the country's capital with police forces firing tear gas to disperse the crowds that 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. and how about this then a woman in china is lucky to be a lawyer after a narrow escape from a dramatic road accident c.c.t.v. footage shows the woman straying into the path of a cargo truck which then rushes straight into her scooter she reportedly failed to spot a red light and now faces prosecution for causing the crash. well it's twenty three minutes past the hour now the russian couple on the business desk

it's a week of corporate technology results then it is out in a lot of them have been positive actually so far which is really boosted the markets this week so far but right now the u.s. markets of changes there to you so to speak to have a look at the figures but first i want to talk about microsoft because it's actually reported its first quarterly loss since going public in nineteen eighty six now the loss came after the computing giant took over the online ad services company a quantity of now microsoft paid three point six billion dollars for that company which afterwards it failed to compete with google now despite the bad news the company is doing one of the areas though its revenue rose by four percent to eighteen billion dollars in the first quarter as a bit of a casualty but as i say we have seen some good earnings this week but right now it's really external factors that are affecting wall street right now really the

european sovereign debt crisis and also news from china as well the fact that they will not be relaxing property control policies so the u.s. is really feeling the pressure from external international factors as you can see the dow jones eight tenth's down now the nasdaq over a percent in negative territory so we'll get on to the european markets then who felt the pain today and they are to close as you are looking at the closing figure for this week now we did have the bailout turns to spain being. realized meanwhile the difference between spanish bonds and german bunds a boring calls to a record high we have the facts around six percent negative territory the common currency is declining if we check that out we'll also be able to see the ruble as well and see how that is performing and how it did indeed today if we can have a look at the exchange rates we've also got the markets as well in moscow to look at as well one of the factors here it was oil prices they were. also kept the

outflow from russia orientated funds have actually reached fifty million dollars this week and that's despite the short term volatility so far more than seven hundred million dollars has been invested in russia focused now i did mention oil so let's have a look because they are still declining we're still working out a full from a nine week high. as you can see the prices are in your screen just now i've been talking about uncertainty i've been talking about financial turmoil and it is indeed capsulated the world is becoming increasingly hard for people to find secure investment opportunities where people with money but that money now well according to citi group russia has all the credentials in big money. the eurozone crisis is three years in the making and there's no end in sight so working retail investors safely work 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 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 global companies with sales in russia. ok bell in under two hours time then i'll be back

to have a roundup of the week's business news for you thanks a lot katie good to see you then on a couple of minutes laurin mr will be bringing her inside on some of the global top stories financial stories but first i'll update you on the day's headlines that's right after this stay with us live here in moscow.

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