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planes opposition forces. -- the government blames opposition forces. opposition forces are asking where the presence of the u.n. is. also coming up in this program, as europe heats up in the spanish bailout many prepared to buy millions of bureaus in loans. >> the space is incredibly expensive and scarce here. the solution, think small. >> it is midday in london. 7:00 a.m. in washington, and 2:00 p.m. in syria, where activists say pro-government forces have killed at least 78 civilians. the attacks were in hama promise -- province. the victims, half of whom were

women and children, are thought to have been shot at close range or stabbed to death. it suggests that diplomatic efforts to resolve the crisis are having little impact on the ground. >> the gruesome aftermath of what both sides are calling another massacre. this video, put out by activists, it showed in graphic detail some of the victims. they said 20 women and more than that number of children were killed. many were shot or stabbed by the regime alicia, they said. the dead -- regime militia, they said. the dead included toddlers. are these children terrorists, he says? some of the images were charged remains, too graphic for up to -- charred remains, too graphic for us to show. one villager who says he did and witnessed the massacre and then

fled told the bbc through an interpreter what happened. >> the people were trying to avoid the shells and rockets. after these people, the civilian people left. he saw by his eyes are around 40 bodies. most of them are children and women. >> the syrian state television said the massacre, involving just nine women and children, was carried out by armed rebels. it said terrorists stage the killing to try to provoke outside intervention. kofi annan is to brief the security council and urged it to put muscle into reviving his peace plan. it is dead in the water, remains the only a blueprint for a solution. but the killing has heightened differences between allies like russia and the west, who believe

if president assad simply has to go. >> they need to sit down and run the counsel table and discuss this issue. and none of them should be able to hide from the fact that if this is true, it will be once again president assad demonstrating that his regime is completely legitimate. >> activists are warning that more massacres may be on the way. in western hama province and here, one of the areas where clashes between rebels and the powerful state forces have been identified. demonstrations protesting against the massacre declared "you can kill as many as you like, but we are coming after you." bbc news, beirut. >> the u.s. secretary of state in the last few minutes has condemned the latest massacre of zillions in syria and blamed

the government tough a set -- the government of assad for the killings. she said she is willing to work with russia to make more serious action happen. >> the regime-sponsored violence that we witnessed again yesterday is simply unconscionable. assad has doubled down on his brutality and duplicity, and that syria will not and cannot be peaceful, stable, worse -- or even democratic unless assad goes. >> we can talk to a local activist in hama via skype. tell us where you know about the circumstances of these people's deaths. was this village known to be i anti-assad? >> it is a very small village in

the western countries side of hama. its people are very simple, but when people. they just take care of their sheep. the regime is just trying to take syria to the unknown. it is trying to make civil war that is longing for now and syria just to get in trouble. the regime is deteriorating, slowly collapsing. that is why it is crushing all things in syria. >> what have you heard? you are in hama province. you have any idea of what happened? >> i was interviewed with a view -- with you before and i said that this village was shelled for about one hour yesterday, at

about 11:00 a.m. gmda. -- 11 a.m. gmt. villagers from other villages have started to say that the regime came in to their village killing people in cold blood. they have killed 78 civilians, and the rest of the village, which is a very small population, fled to other villages. i spoke to one of them. he described very horrible things to me. the gains came carrying weapons, even sticks. it is a very normal crime. -- horrible crime.

there on both sides of the river. maybe this regime is thinking about establishing a kind of sectarian entity after its eventual collapse. that is why these villages are being subject to these horrible attacks. the villagers could only flee their villages to other safer places to the east or to the river. >> you talk about the locations of these villages across the euphrates river. but you know what the government says when these situations occur. they say, this is the work of terrorists. >> yes, they are the work of terrorists, but they are the terrorists related to the regime. it is very strange that terrorists are the opposition in syria.

this is a revolution for freedom and democracy. of course, the regime lying and trying to cheat the world. >> is it possible that these forces may be acting because they support the government, but maybe the government has no control over them? >> not at all. the government now is not only losing control over the army and the syrian people, but the regime is also losing control over those criminal gangs. those criminal gangs are now killing and moving without paying attention to what the regime will say to them. they are sometimes beating on their own to loot more villages and more towns -- be hating on their own to loot more villages and more towns. >> can i ask you this, because

now there is a new plan being hatched by the international on void kofi annan. does the u.n. still have a role to play in all of this? >> of course, anything from the international community other than military intervention will not be accepted by the syrian people anymore. when you see your children being killed in front of your eyes, when you see all of your men and women being slaughtered and the women raped, it is very horrible. we need help to not let us continue. we advise mr. and then -- mr. coffee and then to declare his initiative -- mr. kofi annan to declare his initiative and to

have a resolution with the security council and charred seven. that is the only solution that will be acceptable. >> they are talking about the use of force there. thank you for talking to us about the massacre taking place in the village there in the, -- in ham province. the british prime minister is headed to berlin before talks about the eurozone crisis. before he left, mr. cameron said his priority was to restore -- to stabilize by recapitalizing banks and reassuring capital markets. >> all countries across europe can help by offering the right advice and the right steps forward to the eurozone countries. as we were discussing last night, clearly, the first 40 is civilization. that means recapitalization of banks -- the first priority is

civilizatiostabilization. that means recapitalization of banks. we need to vote was on the long- term growth rate of our countries. that is -- we need to focus on our long-term growth rate of our countries. that is vital. we also need to show that we can reduce our deficit and pay our way in the world. those steps all need to take place. >> british prime minister david cameron. angela merkel said before he spoke that more countries need to hand over more political power to the european union if monetary reunion was to work. >> we not only need a currency union, but we also need a so- called fiscal union. meaning, we need more common budgetary policies. and we most importantly needed political union. that means in the future step by step, we need to hand over conferences in europe and allow

more monetary opportunities. >> the eurozone crisis has deepened because the fourth biggest economy in the you, spain, is in the midst of a massive banking crisis. spain is finding it hard to raise money to fix its banking problem. in the past couple of hours or so, it has managed to raise more than 2 billion heroes in the credit markets. we will be life on the streets of madrid in just a few minutes. first or more of this -- on the financial news. david cameron and angela merkel were talking about germany acting out. what are other countries wanting from germany, and why she resisting it? >> they want an immediate plan on the table right now to stem this crisis.

president obama like we told her on a late-night phone conference call just the other day -- likely told her on a late-night phone conference call just the other day. their meeting today in the berlin for a face-to-face meeting. the first priority is to stabilize the financial system. build a firewall to protect the good from the met -- from the bad and try to stabilize the markets. she says, yes, a fiscal union is needed, and in layman terms, that means one country for all of europe. but to do that to my you need more political union. feeding more power to brussels. she says, even if that comes at the cost of a two-speed approach, which basically means, some in, some out.

the prime minister could be wasting his time. listen to this. >> the meeting between cameron and merkel is largely ignored in germany, and for good reasons. britain is outside the eurozone and has not put up much money for the eurozone rescue. it is not in need of rescue itself. there's not much interest in what he has to say. the german government knows that the british economy is intertwined with the eurozone, and therefore, has a huge interest in the eurozone price is being under control -- eurozone crisis being under control. >> the bank of england will be meeting to decide what is going to do on interest rates, and they have decided what? >> no change whatsoever on the record low interest rate of 0.5%. they have had that great for three years. all eyes are on economic stimulus.

that is basically printing more money and pumping it into the system. the bank has already agreed to limit of $500 billion. they will not move on that at the moment. we are talking about outside pressure from all corners of the world. britain needs to possibly cut interest rates and introduce more stimulus because the recession we are in at the moment is a little deeper than previously thought. the big worry of britain is what is going on in the eurozone crisis. if it worsens, what impact will that have on us? listen to this. >> i think we have seen the effect in terms of confidence and market dislocation, lower equity prices, widening spreads. if you look at our 10-year government bond use, they are at a record low because of the crisis in europe, which if forcing money out to the areas that investors are worried about into the areas that they think are not involved in it. some of that has crossed the

channel to lower our borrowing costs at the long end. >> it is our largest trading partner, so in a nutshell, a healthy europe is a healthy u.k. >> thank you for that news. bank of england to buy no change in interest rates. still to come, spain manages to borrow more than 2 billion euros on the bond market, but had to pay a high price. we are live in madrid. in america, food gourmets in california have been embarking on a fog of -- fagua eating binge before it is banned as a delicacy. it is made by fattening duck livers. -- fattening? in order to use their livers. many say this -- that man up?

in order to use their livers. many say it is inhumane. correct some are determined to fight the ban. -- >> some are determined to fight the ban. >> i have been up to sacramento to fight the lobby, to make people a little more aware of the impact it will have on us chefs and on tourism and the dining guests. >> there are campaigners who claim there are -- there is for speeding involved and it amounts to torture. >> -- claimed the force feeding involved amounts to torture. >> it is cruel and there is no justification for it. >> the band goes into place on july 1. there is some -- there are some who are skeptical about how watertight it will be. >> it is like cuban rum.

if you want to get cuban rum, you can. >> in the meantime, many are gorging on it. >> i am sad. i am disappointed. i will get as much in as i can while we can. >> american drug enforcement agents have arrested 33 people and a big operation in a pr international airport. they are suspected of belonging to two drawer organize the state's in the caribbean. -- a drug organized states in the caribbean. you are watching bbc news. these are tar -- our top headlines. another massacre in syria. a u.n. team is on its way to the province of hama. and spain has managed to borrow

2 billion euros on the bond market, but the interest rate has grown. we will have more on the banking crisis in spain and the efforts to tackle the crisis. the government has managed to borrow 2 billion euros on the bond market. the interest rate they had to offer has risen. this comes days and after they said it was not possible to access any funds because of the high cost of borrowing. john is in the heart of madrid. perhaps a silver lining for the spanish? >> it bit of good news in a sea of very bad news. let's speak to a banker here. the bond auction went well today? >> i will say, good enough. the size of the auction was not large enough to call a real test.

>> isn't the more important point what happens to the banks? >> to the banks, i think we could capitalization. that means we are going to lend money on the road. it is something like a soft bailout. >> you need a lot of money, don't you? we are talking 100 billion euros. >> the very last numbers i looked up for about 100 billion euros. >> what happens of the banks do not get the money? >> if they do not get the money, we will run out of cash. that would be a problem. because spain is big enough to be considered on a world basis. >> you think the money will come from europe. >> yes, i think so. if not, 100% of the monday it is

a great amount of the money -- of the money is a great amount of the money. >> why have the banks got themselves in this place where they need to be recapitalized like this? gregg's credit bonds, credit during the good years grew by a huge percentage. now is down. housing prices are down. >> there are something like 800,000 unsold properties that were built. >> to be clear, that means five to four years that we will not be building a new house. it will take time to get out of this problem. >> the spanish people over the next 10 years, it will be tough. >> yes, we will be living with 4% gdp growth during the good years. in the next two or three years,

growth will be zero. for the next five years, maybe 1%. >> we saw workers this morning who have been told they have to work longer and get paid less. do you think there is a danger that the spanish people will rise up in the way that the greek people have done? retsof not exactly. i will say that the size of the it -- >> not exactly. i will set up the size of the economy years spain is larger. 20% of the gdp of some economies. >> back to you in the studio. >> much of japan is mountainous, which means its population of 128 million people are crowded onto the few areas of flat land in the country. many japanese workers spend hours commuting into tokyo every day because their homes are well

outside the capital. people are looking for alternatives and now there are a growing trend of -- there is a growing trend of detached homes throughout tokyo. >> there is an old saying here in tokyo that if you take a 10,000 yen note and folded up as possible -- as small as you can -- this is worth about $130, by the way -- and put it on the ground, it will not be worth enough money to buy the ground underneath it. space is small, but think small. the plot is tiny, barely 2 meters across. inside, there are a lot of features that make it feel bigger than it is. the staircase is very open. all of the doors slide rather

than open in and out. and much more efficient use of space. and every square inch of possible storage is used. the house was built by the sito family, although they had their doubts when they saw the land. >> it is very small. >> and did you imagine that could be a house? >> i could not believe it. only my car can stand here. but my house cannot. >> but the architect who designed this one says more and more people think small is beautiful. >> more than half of my projects are tiny houses. some are them -- of them are refurbishments. if you work in tokyo, there's plenty of opportunity to do this.

>> the rooms may be a little small, but if you want a house rather than a flat, i hear in the center of the world's most populated -- here at the center of the world's most populated city, some sacrifices have to be made. >> the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton has condemned the latest massacre of civilians in syria. she blames the government abbas todd -- of assad for the killings. that is it for our newscast. >> funding was made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu. .ewman's own foundation union bank. and it shall. -- and shel.

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