plans intervene in syria reportedly take shape among the u.s. and its allies this by russia and the arab league putting forward a plan for a political solution. fifteen foreign ministers from all over the world have flown to new york to take part in a high level security council meeting at the united nations discussing the middle east and syria details from new york on. american tactics and afghanistan come under question once again as a u.s. soldier killed sixteen people most of them children and i can rampage. that stains thousands protest the cards and the wave reforms they fear of might cost them their

jobs are to visit a town that's already given up on the prices hit single currency. and in the business bulletin some valid news coming out of china it posted a bigger inspect and trade deficit disappointing investors bringing indices and oil prices down all the details in twenty minutes. than i am and the russian capital you're watching our team washington has reportedly begun discussions with allies i possible military intervention in syria among the measures being considered arming the opposition sending troops to form a humanitarian corridor and an assault on the country's air defenses foreign ministers from member states of the u.n. security council are holding a meeting on syria today. as a new york. this ministerial meeting comes on the heels of several syrian

developments over the weekend including saturday session of the arab league nations in cairo following that event russia's foreign minister announced that the parties had come up with a five point plan on syria now those points include calling for an immediate end to all violence a cease fire on both sides u.n. arab league envoy kofi annan also wrapped up his two day trip. he said that syria is ready to make a success of honest effort to find a solution for the events that are taking place there but neither sides were ready to reach consensus neither sides meaning the assad government or the opposition groups both are saying that they're willing to participate and dialogue but no neither side has said they will put their weapons down first now the syrian national council leader also said that his group is receiving donations from

foreign governments i he said that the council is starting to recede receiving support in donations from arab. arab countries meanwhile france and morocco said they are opposed to any military intervention in through syria but on the other hand prime minister said that he is urging for the syrian national council to be recognized as legitimate representation of the syrian people not the assad government the prime minister also has called for international troops to be sent to syria to deal with the current regime we know previous foldings at the united nations that russia and china are strongly opposed to any international intervention into syria both countries have used their vetoes on two separate occasions to prevent resolutions to go through the security council that two sides in the syrian conflict this meeting taking place in new york today of course it

will also be discussing how to move forward on syria in a more balanced way to end violence as soon as possible. qatar's aggressive stance towards of us has led to a string of resignations at a country's al-jazeera t.v. news channel those who describe bias at the station which they say has become a tool to target the syrian regime that point specifically at the way the recent referendum on a new constitution was more or less ignored journalist often were tons of work for al-jazeera says there's been a u. turn in the channels policies. because i'm president of this number of resignations correspondents producers directors of their offices it's very sad that al-jazeera arabic which was such a voice for openness that's a revolutionary channel in that part of the world openly allowing people to phone and criticize the dictators backed by the red states in the region it's very very

disturbing to hear al-jazeera is no becoming this regional player for a foreign policy in a way that some would argue be say you know the b.b.c. and others have been for decades because if zero arabic is going to take a war like stones will go of the qatari government that is bodes very ill and i have to say there is the courage of those journalists that were ever in saying look this isn't the way we should be covering this there are elements of al qaida in there and wailed as a writer because cover the story of syria is completely one sided. also seen afghan civilians including nine children have been shot down in their homes by u.s. soldier on an alleged overnight gun rampage incident follows mass protests last month over the burning of copies of the koran and an american military base president hamid karzai has condemned the slaughter as on forgivable and demanded an explanation from washington president barack obama expressed his condolences while

the nato secretary general promised to restore the undermine phase of the afghan people but as you german from the stop the work coalition believes that the incident once again raises questions about u.s. military tactics in of gotta stand. the americans will try to say this is just an isolated incident but we have to remember the there are one hundred thousand occupying troops there are many many demonstrations over the burning of the koran that isn't just about the offense to islam it's also about the occupation itself the air strikes and particularly in this case we know that every night in afghanistan up to forty thousand is a raid looking for alleged terrorists in the country now if this soldier is one of the many who have been involved in these raids and it does raise many many questions as to exactly how the americans are treated in the occupied population the afghan people. coming out on r.t.e.

cold war talk hard sell in the u.s. with a presidential campaign in full swing some politicians resort to russia bashing to score political points. tweeting rever of style we report our intervention to turn an old rotary phone into it. for that anger has flared up in spain once again as thousands flooded the streets to protest against tough government cuts and the recently passed new labor laws spanish union staged mass rallies in sixty cities they say the labor reform designed to revitalize the economy actually under my workers and cut their rights the new laws were cleared by parliament last week and will make firing him for his easier less costly means jobless rate is the highest in the eurozone was almost half of its young population unemployed however while the government struggles to stay the single currency there's

a town that's already going back to the good old days. through feeling a bit yearly fatigued at the moment so it's no surprise that in some places currency astrologers sitting in the least enjoying the euro more than a decade ago you thought you'd seen the last of the old spanish because you were wrong with a conscious such a tough economic situation some for such as the village my own. have been encouraging their customers to relive their old that is a unique way of generating business and like of the year a country spain has no expire for exchanging its old set is in fact is that the need to be there more than a billion euros worth of an exchange with that is still in the country. to run schemes to once again extent than even new life to the old currency. we saw that some other towns in spain had run this scheme and it worked very well there so we thought why not try it here it's been great for the economy of the town what's it

like owning a business in the cone economic climate. but it can be very tough and very boring i spend a lot of evenings making my own flies for flying fishing he keeps me entertained he created certainly worked for this town letting the more than a million because that is so around six thousand euros. it's not just becomes a village is akin to things a spain's alternative economy here in the heart of the capital we come to a store that's found a way to avoid using cash altogether hayden says lee is a good six jane still that works on a points system here tells us that you bringing kids get points for days good and you can then purchase other things in the store and best of all no cash needed it's own idea i think it's interesting to. barter for in something that you no longer need and that's something we do when i actually

really like second hand me and my husband. recently i was in good condition on therapist he was in construction so now obviously the cheaper the better. solutions are perhaps a temporary reprieve to the ongoing crisis they are proving that even a dying economic times businesses can find ways to flourish and at least make you more happy customers. r.t. going. i know it's hard to call for more news blogs and analysis on russian and international stories here's a taste of what's waiting for you on line a ban on religion u.k. companies deny their employees the riots aware cross or curse fix at work. and the russian opposition once again tries to capture public attention by protesting against the results of a presidential election as a fourth falls away the full story is that r.t. dot com.

is a completely new easy. to . the official g.o.p. convention your own phone called talk from the only true jumps to. launch on cheesy . video. on cheesy mind old girls. and omissions features now in the palm of your. on the. as the u.s. presidential campaign gathers momentum carried a terror daying out a little old school talk to fuel their rhetoric some analysts fear the cold war

could be making a comeback are just going to shake out looks at whether the recent reset with russia could fall victim to local politics in the us a cold war mean long with the leaders of russia and america looking for common ground under the banner of a reset in relations a cold war sentiment still one high in the minds of some on capitol hill a hearing in washington was convened last year to discuss quote defending u.s. interests in the face of russian aggression moscow's actions have demonstrated the lengths that it is prepared to take to assert its influence on an even larger scale a fact that is especially troubling in light of europe's growing dependence on russian energy the eagerness to protect the world from russia's influence seems to echo president harry truman speech which arguably heralded the start of the cold war. of course people who are resisting it.

can write right here one of the leading presidential contenders meet one they went as far as this i think president bush represents a real threat to. the stability and peace of the world and only say many american politicians have mastered the art of creating and bashing boogie men especially when election campaigns are underway during the cold war for example being hard on communism was considered a litmus test for a solid trustworthy politician and to get on both sides of the ocean with all this i suppose it's fair to say that it's some kind of cold war inertia but there is a desire to. speak tough talk tough when it comes to foreign policy in order to sell your campaign to the wider population among the most hardline entire russian politicians are those who also preach unilateralism in foreign policy which means the u.s. can and will decide whatever he chooses for the rest of the world an idea which

flourished after the soviet union's collapse the neocons are having a particularly difficult time with is the idea that they can no longer simply snap their fingers in court shots just ten years ago when united states was also going back that is exactly how the rock work and in new york times running the show in washington they didn't see the need to consult with great powers to determine whether their course of action was it's acceptable to the reset policy was put forward in theory to overcome the cold war mindset but a number of differences still remain between russia and the u.s. one of the biggest u.s. plans were missile defense shield in europe washington still refuses to give moscow legal guarantees that it won't target russia president elect lines even if which is said reset doesn't mean that russia has to give up its national interests or the i'm able to express its views on closely international issues. the research has nevertheless been useful because it's a new level of trust is

a real will to reach an agreement which is allowed us to reach a new start treaty and we will soon which is sort of agreement on cooperation in the field of peaceful nuclear energy and it's with us backing that russia was able to join the world trade organization these are positive steps terms of all results of the basic policy. most analysts agree for the reset to be truly successful both sides have to respect and consider each other's interests the cold war is long gone but it's alive and kicking in the minds of those who believe that one country has the exclusive right to make decisions for others and that's a view which appears to be a step in the minds of many was all of which and even to this day i'm going to check our reporting from washington r.t. so i have read this how here in r.t.f. i for the green fields of nepal we report why the giants offer of help to boost the country's crafts could trap local farmers for years to come. several militants are blocked inside an apartment block in the center of the capital of

russia's republic of dagestan the residents have been evacuated the militants are armed and shooting back at security forces surrounding the building and there are no reports of casualties more on the story as forget it. now let's check some other international stories around the world israel has launched a barrage of airstrikes on gaza killing eighteen people in three days including a child it's the worst violence as a region has seen in more than a year the first attack from israel came despite an informal truce between the sides it targeted a high ranking palestinian resistance leader and sparked a fierce exchange of fire. fourteen people died when the fire broke out of the side were a shopping center was being built in the turkish city of us down but construction workers were housed in temporary quarters of the building site turkish state television reports that an electrical fault is the suspected cause of the blaze.

and an election rally on sunday to go sarkozy war in france will pull out of the e.u.'s open border show and get agreements on the union toughens up its immigration policy earlier the french president pledged to have the number of illegal immigrants if he's reelected and border control has been a key issue as a country had towards the first round of a presidential poll in april. now the u.s. will transfer control of afghan prisoners to local forces over the next six months clearing one sticking point on a path towards was drawing combat troops by twenty four teams washington is also looking to pass on the key responsibility of night raids in the country but artie's military contributor says it's the taliban that is banking on the agreements. then next week it is expected that yet another memorandum of understanding will be reached and signed between american and afghans regarding the u.s. night raids by this special operation forces it was one of the main hidden agenda

and demands from the taliban and their associates that is to ever get both that afghan penitentiary system and nitrates in the country. because we have bad government and especially the afghan national security forces totally and their remarkable corrupt and increasingly infiltrated by the insurgents makes much more sense for the taliban to give the upper hand in nonmilitary field operations in their own fight for the hearts and minds in afghanistan. accessing facebook or twitter is as easy as county where the smart phone to have but what if you're stuck in the past with an old rotary phone well that's no longer

a problem with a new invention from ukraine alex their task try that he designed this may only look like an old world grief phone but in fact it is the world's first analog twitter client created in ukraine the case of a crazy suggestion turning into a bizarre invention. a friend of mine posted on twitter who would have been to tweet from an old room through phone. and realized it was possible means we installed cheap and easy accessible microcontroller. and connected them to the spinning wheel the tree phone was not designed as a commercial item only for fun but given twitter's growing popularity and the widespread love for antiques it could easily become a very trendy tool that we phone is quite easy to use you only have to dial the numbers which corresponds with the letters just as sending a text message on a cellular phone so right now i'm sending. a message to myself on twitter.

you know the three phone is attached only to one twitter account its very own but it could in time be expanded if it takes off in the market to use it for any twitter or similar microblog website while there is certainly room for development from the basic concept as it exists now it's created believes it could bring twitter onto the streets. we actually thought it would be an altered centerpiece installed something like twitter in the street so everyone can logon and tweet besides anything you can do all just one could be used for the purpose for now twitter's owners have not contacted the twee phones masterminds but who knows should an enthusiastic investor pop up sometime in the future who could be seen as we phone booths on every corner. see reporting from kiev in ukraine the green fields of nepal could turn into an agricultural dows owners local farmers

prepare for a foreign invasion at giants and cart a versatile food producer is hoping to boost local maize production but it's still not a clean modify the seeds could bring more harm than good as previously are now reports like many in nepal romper thought mill think relies on agriculture to tell buy and life is tough. we have to get up in the freezing cold or three am and wait for the vehicle that takes us to the markets we need to have a market price for a village to bulls and we had to sell the much water price there's. nothing of grozny it's one of the biggest crops but only about half of what it needs is being produced and forty percent of the population is malnourished. the united states agency for international development or usa i t wants to lend a helping hand we have been trying to help. to increase installed in production reduction of the food crops. and also in please productivities by making him

a little bit more competitive. by bringing his costs down that help could come in the form of month on charts and agricultural giant which shows as much controversy as it does feed the usa id has announced that it wants to create a partnership with monsanto and then a police government to boost maize production here while most agree that nepal needs to address its food insecurity problems critics say that may be the solution to nepal's agricultural issues should come from within the country and not abroad hundreds of protesters gathered in front of the u.s. embassy in katmandu to speak out against months on tow as it is our farmers are poor don't have much to begin with then they'll have to completely rely. on south of us they id believes month antos hybrid seeds will get higher yields but it could also be a noose around farmers next year so the are over into this program and then you

start going seeds from them so you're one of my producers. you're to just start slowing down and then it means that you have to increase in puts because you have to. buy seeds from this company because sued for going down the corporation's history it's not exactly covered in glory it's been sued by hundreds of thousands of farmers around the world convicted of dumping toxic waste in british landfill sites and allegations of monopolization follow it everywhere farmers like romper start nothing or have enough to deal with a group times when there is no food at home and those are the difficult times because i didn't have another job where i could get some extra money from. but it's a tough decision whether to swallow the cost to you to nation preassure either r t katmandu a new car. or crossing out to ask for the latest business so what's happening this morning that's. well with all the doom and gloom coming out of europe many

investors really saw china as the last glimpse of hope but it brings some bad news as well over the weekend china posted trade deficit of more than thirty one billion dollars that's china's only largest in about a decade and definitely bigger than most analysts expected the good news in all this is we saw some growth in imports they jumped by almost forty percent which is the strongest growth in more than a year but the bears seem to outweigh the bulls on asian trading floors this monday let's see how the indices are performing this hour and as you can see now in hong kong the hang saying is given into the pressure it's actually losing about a quarter percent in tokyo the nikkei is doing a bit better the exploiters of pushing the index higher more than a quarter percent namely on

a weaker yen against the dollar and it's less than one hour ahead of the opening bell here in moscow the indices actually traded on sunday due to apologies swapping as you can see both and i said seventy r.t.s. ended up. posting gains of more than two percent on pretty thin volumes though but of course we know that one of the main factors for the russian indices is the price of oil and oil is in the red this monday morning mainly on concerns about slowing economic growth in china the world's biggest energy consumer and we'll see how wall street reacts to this when it comes back. as we can see it's close now you see friday's closing figures the dow jones industrial average and the nasdaq ground up closing slot to positive for the week overall the dow. posted moderate losses while the nasdaq actually knew. managed to stay in the bois

posting games for a fourth straight week and let's now take a look at the currencies the euro was slightly lower against the dollar while the russian ruble strained them slightly both against the dollar and the. day after the markets reacted to greece defaulting on its debt to private lenders as structured as that default might have been and after fitch and moody's downgraded greece to well default what investors really want to know is what does that mean a longer term in the big scheme of things while other countries follow sure greece is definitely one of the worst with unemployment running at twenty percent but spain and portugal almost just as bad and ireland said employment figures of almost fifteen percent can compete with greece so what are the implications for the global

economy this week for chief strategist of toys that i logged in moscow explains it's not really an issue for greece only more doesn't affect greece greece is already if you like already you are past its neck in problems it's not going to make it any worse or any better the problem is that the technical default completely undermines the whole basis for the c.d.s. market which essentially is the basis of risk insurance and on market globally it undermines the credibility of c.b.s. and they are simply on norm consequences as to how that might affect the market and you're talking about a global multi-trillion dollar business. and that's all the latest from the business desk this hour i'll be back in about fifteen minutes i'll see about.

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