intervention into syria is reportedly in the works among washington and its allies russia and the arab league are readying. fifteen foreign ministers from all over the world have new york take part in a high level security council meeting at the united nations discussing the middle east and syria details from new york. and u.s. troops are put on the high of sixteen people most of them children die in the hands of an american soldier on a shooting spree in afghanistan. and spanish labor reforms boils

over as thousands protest changes they fear will put them on the red line and there's already one tolman's given up on the struggling single currency. have you with us today this is. live in moscow washington has a report of discussions with allies on a possible military intervention in syria among the measures being considered are arming the opposition sending troops to form a humanitarian corridor and an assault on the country's defenses foreign ministers from member states of the u.n. security council holding a meeting today on syria. has all the details in new york. this ministerial meeting comes on the heels of several syrian developments over the

weekend including saturday's session of the arab league nations in cairo following that event of 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 to damascus he said that syria is ready to make a success of honest effort to find a solution but neither side said they will put their weapons down first now the syrian national council leader also said that his group is receiving donations from arab and non arab countries prime minister said that he is urging for the syrian national council to be recognized as quote legitimate representation of the syrian people the prime minister also has called for international troops to be

sent to syria to deal with the current regime now we know from previous unfoldings at the united nations that russia and china are strongly opposed to any international intervention into syria both countries have used their vetoes to separate occasions to prevent resolutions to go through the security council that took 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. saudi arabia criticized for supporting diplomacy saying it's giving assad free rein to kill civilians but u.s. . journalist. that's in countries are in no position to criticize russia. it's hard saudi arabia both know about killing innocent citizens they've been doing

it for their entire existence and they're doing it in bach re now i don't think they're in any position to discuss what's been basically a rational constructive role that russia has played in this which is stopping another libya from coming into existence and leaving the bases for democratic change in syria the idea that the army terrorist group is constructive is a perversion of logic and a perversion of law i mean the biggest problem is the fact that there's no perception we're fact of any prevailing international law you have sitting in paris the head of these syrian national you know the s.n.c. you know he's the head of an armed terrorist group opening an operating openly in paris now if this were the head of al qaida after the attacks in new york for example there wouldn't be a place on the planet where the united states wouldn't have the entire united nations marching in courting them off the court or killing him and dumping him and see obviously this group could not operate in syria with impunity without the

backing of the united states and he you know the arab league countries qatar aggressive stance towards assad has led to a string of resignations of the country's al-jazeera t.v. news channel those who left describe bias at the station which they say has become a tool to get the syrian regime the story now so i think the point to sleep now. we receiving information now about the reported resignations of key employees in al-jazeera beirut office and they are claiming that the channel has a very provocative stance and has been involved in agenda stating biased reporting these resignations include the managing director of the correspondents and the producer and specific reports that we are hearing particularly from the correspondent is that al-jazeera refused to publish pictures of armed five to clashing with the syrian army and in addition also ignored a referendum on a new constitution in syria by comparison the channel's coverage of events in

bahrain was minimal it's has practically ignored what has been happening there in libya we are now receiving some kind of leaked information that the channel was involved in fake coverage and situps and as you can well imagine this is sending a long goals to the international journalism at genda because al-jazeera was as a channel that was a mouthpiece of freedom and change it was supposed to be a channel that was a revolutionary voice but increasingly we have heard critics say that it has become a one sided voice for could tarries government's stance particularly against the syrian president bashar assad and our viewers many of them will remember that almost miraculously that was the word that was used by critics last year al jazeera was granted a license to broadcast in the united states and this is off it was initially refused such licensing rights and this has made many critics to say that those granting was because of the channels change in terms of an agenda setting that is

very much pushing the agenda of the qatari and wasting governments that are calling for military intervention in syria. that is policy reporting there now the taliban has promised revenge for the killing of sixteen afghan civilians by an american soldier who went on a shooting spree on sunday u.s. troops in afghanistan have for the meantime been placed on alert and children were among the sixteen victims who were shot in the homes the soldier who is believed to have suffered a mental breakdown did turn himself in the afghan parliament has demanded a public trial and said afghans have run out of patience with the lack of oversight of foreign troops the incident follows mass protests just last month over the burning of copies of a qur'an at an american military base in germany from the stop the war coalition says that u.s. military tactics are to blame. americans will try to say this is just an isolated incident but we have to remember that there are one hundred thousand occupying

troops there are many many times traces over the pearly of the koran that isn't just about the only friends to islam it's also about the occupation itself the air strikes and particularly in this case we know that every now it's in afghanistan up to forty thousand it's a rate it's looking for alleged terrorists in the in the count for now if this soldier is one of the many who've been involved in these rights and it goes right as many many questions as to exactly how the americans are treated in the occupied population the afghan people. you're watching on t.v. it's good to have you with us today and still to come of the program here cold war talk heats up in the u.s. it is sixty five years since president harry truman defined america's far reaching foreign goals and some politicians still resort of bashing the bogeyman to score political points. plus

a fight for the green fields of nepal we reported while food giant offered to help boost the country's cross to truck and local farmers for years to come. anger has flared up in spain once again as thousands fled into the streets to protest against tough government cuts and the recently passed new labels spanish unions staged mass rallies in sixty countries they say the labor reform designed to revitalize the economy will actually undermine workers and cut their rights when you go was work cleared by parliament just last week and will make firing employees easier and cheaper spain's jobless rate is the highest in the eurozone with almost half of its young population unemployed however while the government struggles to stay in the single currency there is a town that's already going back to the good old days. feeling of that year he didn't name and it's no surprise that in some places currency of knowledge is

getting in the stranger in the year a move in a decade ago he thought you'd seen the last of the old spanish. you wrong with a conscience such a tough economic situation that is the village my own. have been encouraging the last three years they're all that the unique way of generating business. i'm like how the year a country spain has no expire you date for exchanging it's open set is the fact is that the native there are more than a billion euros worth of an exchange with that is still in the country they somehow survive on schemes for once again except the giving new life to the old currency or from some other towns in spain had run this scheme and it worked very well there so we thought why not trade here has been great for the economy of the town what's it like owning a business in the current economic climate. it can be very tough and very boring i spend a lot of evenings making my own flies for fly fishing it keeps me entertained but

what about it being creative certainly worked for this town letting the more than a million because that is six thousand euros. it's not just council village is it a conservative thing to spain's alternative economy here in the heart of the capital or you come to a store that's found a way to avoid using cash altogether. even says lee is a good six jane still that works in a point system tells us that you bringing kids get points for days good and you can then purchase other things in the store and that's the goal no cash needed it's only. i think it's interesting to. barter for something that you no longer need something. i actually really like secondhand clothes my husband drops recently and i was an incompletion on therapist who was in construction so no. matter. what the solutions are perhaps

a temporary reprieve to the ongoing crisis they are proving that even in dying economic times businesses can find ways to flourish and at least make me more happy customers. r.t. being. but i can always go to. more news blogs analysis on russian international stories here's a taste of some of the stories. of the nato chief falls victim to a. facebook friend requests to. sharing his personal data. the russian opposition once again tries to public attention by protesting against the results of the presidential election but support fulls away the full story.

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sour quarter past the hour here in the russian capital old school rhetoric is alive and well in the u.s. at sixty five years off the president harry truman formulated washington's policy of becoming the world's policeman and as the campaign for the next president gains momentum a kind of digging up a little cold war talk of their own scottish account books and whether the recent reset with russia could fall victim to local politics in america the cold war mean long over with the leaders of russia and america looking for common ground under the banner of a reset in relations the cold war sentiments still run 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 wall from russia's influence seems to present an airy truman speech which arguably heralded the start of the cold war era power of the united. poor people where is it to get that right right right here one of the leading presidential contenders meet one they went as far as this i think their president 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 boogyman 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's

a desire to. speak tough talk tough when it comes to foreign policy in order to sell your campaign to the wider population in the among the most hard line entire russian politicians are those who also preach unilateralism in foreign policy which means the u.s. can and will decide when every chooses for the rest of the world an idea which flourished after the soviet union's collapse neo cons are having a particularly difficult time with use the idea that they can no longer simply snap their fingers and call the shots just ten years ago when united states that was possible thing that is you cannot very well be iraq working in new york constantly running the show in washington and they didn't see the need to consult with the 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 for a missile defense shield in europe washington still refuses to give moscow legal guarantees that it won't target plush praising the like flies in a which is said reset doesn't mean they're rushing to give up its national interest or be unable to express its value some socially international issues. the research has nevertheless be useful because if the new trust is a real will to reach an agreement which has allowed us to reach a new start treaty we will certainly to sign an agreement on cooperation in the field of peaceful nuclear energy and it's with us russia was able to join the world trade organization these are positive steps tangible results of the recent bosy. 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 all live and taking 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 stuck in the mind of many u.s. politicians even to this day i'm going to check our reporting from washington and our team. joins us soon with a market update but for now let's get to some other international news in brief with the r.t. world cup it will start with gaza where israeli airstrikes have killed two militants and a schoolboy there has palestinian rockets hit southern israel by the violence continuing now into its fourth day has already seen twenty one palestinians killed and two israelis seriously injured the fierce fighting was sparked by israel killing a high ranking palestinian resistance leader it's the worst violence the region has seen in more than a year. fourteen people have died when a fire broke out of the side of a shopping center being built in the turkish city of istanbul a construction workers were housed in temporary quarters on the building side so state television reports that an electrical fault is the suspected course of the blaze. on the election rally on sunday nicolas sarkozy warned

france will pull out of the e.u.'s open border shain gandee agreement unless the union toughened up its immigration policy a french president pledged to half the number of illegal immigrants if he's reelected or control has been a key issue was the country heads towards the first round of the presidential poll i thought will be in the paper. or the green fields of nepal could turn into an agricultural battles are as local farmers prepare for a foreign invasion a giant and controversial food producer is hoping to boost local maize production but it's genetically modified scenes that could bring more harm than good it's pretty sure to reports like many in nepal promptly think i relied on agriculture to survive and life is tough but we have to get up in the freezing cold of three am and wait for the vehicle that takes us to the markets we do not have

a market price for a village to bills and we had to sell the much more surprised it's nothing of grozny it's one of nepal biggest crops but only about half of what it needs is being produced and forty percent of the population is malnourished. do you know that state agency for international development or usa i t wants to lend a helping hand we have been trying to help the nepalese farmer. production production of the food crops. and also in please productive b.t.n. dog by making him a little bit more competitive. by bringing his costs down that help could come in the form of month on child and agricultural giant which shows as much controversy as it does see usa id has announced it wants to create a partnership with monsanto and then a police government to boost maize production here almost agree that nepal needs to address its food insecurity problems critics say that maybe 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 a month on child as it is of farmers up for bait on how much to begin with then they'll have to completely rely on. monsanto usa id believes the month antos hybrid thieves will get higher yields but it could also be used around farmers now you submit your soul into this program and then you start going seeds from them so you're one of my producers. to do your two starts going down and then it means that you have to increase in because you know you have to. buy seeds from this company because seed for keeps going down the corporations history is not exactly covered in chlorine it's been sued by hundreds of thousands of farmers around the world convicted of dumping toxic waste in british land and allocations of monopolization

follow it everywhere farmers like romper think have enough to deal with. iran sometimes when there is no food at home and those are difficult because i do have another job waiting to get some extra money from the new. but it's a tough decision whether to swallow the cost to putin nation preassure either archie kept in june a powerful. force or sword or business as hero or to your hello to you natasha i understand investors are keeping a close eye on the headlines today what's the main focus of the smug well with all the doom and gloom coming out of europe really many investors focus on china as the seed haven we see some bad news coming out of china as well over the weekend it reported a trade deficit of more than thirty one billion dollars and now it's the china's largest in more than a decade and definitely bigger than most analysts expected the good news is that we saw some growth in imports they jumped by almost forty percent which is the

strongest growth and more than a year now let's see how the markets are reacting to this and european stocks opened lower but they have moved into the black this hour extending the three day rally last week on strong macro economic headlines what we'll see about last especially considering that u.s. futures point to a long were opening on wall street and here in moscow the markets have also moved into block in afternoon trading for my sex is trading above the psychologically important level of sixteen hundred and one of the major headlines that's viewed as positive as foreign direct investment rose twenty one percent last year compared to when it turned the capital outflow remains a big issue more on that a bit later but now the biggest movers of course is mold is outperforming the market and that's despite the fact that gold is a lower on monday luke or oil is also doing quite well but russia's second largest

bank d.t.b. is being punished it started to itself to buy back application from its shareholders on monday and now one of the main factors of course for. russian market is while and oil is down and mainly on concerns about slowing economic growth and china is the biggest energy consumer and now let's take a look at the currency as the euro is gaining just a notch against the dollar the russian ruble is gaining against the euro but is a lower against the greenback and now onto capital outflow it continues to dog the russian economy russian banks keep on boosting their foreign assets by twelve billion dollars in january that's the biggest one month jump in about three years and you get the nod ocean from a of cases in moscow believes that this issue will continue to dog the russian

economy this year. right now we lose our position versus many many our competitors in the emerging markets in terms of threats and capital not only residents but also the residents expect to see private capital outflow you and you for close calls are levels we see one hundred dollars for about a thousand and one hundred thirty plus and because of this deal and environment which may potentially generate the problem of private capital outflow you know reforms are introduced. angry debt problems are once again in the spotlight eurozone finance ministers will meet on monday to discuss the second tranche of bailout for greece and that's of course after. moody's downgraded agree to a default a level and investors really wondering what does that mean on a bigger scale in a large scheme of things will european countries follow other european countries

such as spain and portugal for example yes sure greece is the worst it has an unemployment level of twenty percent with all the austerity measures but island for example with its unemployment of about fifteen percent is not far behind so what are the implications for the global economy unfold paul bach from all sin expects i think attention will turn from sort of. to financial institutions how is it will survive. as payments. european banking groups in there. again it will see how national banks will have to be sufficiently capitalist of course there is a big question about c.d.'s so if you default was a say this can be used for insurance or. they're printed on it and that's the latest from the business desk for now but you can always find

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