if you move from phones to. nice for instance on t.v. don't come. intervention into syria is reportedly in the works among washington and its allies despise russia and the arab league writing a peace prize. fifteen foreign ministers from all over the world have flown to new york to take part in a high level security council meeting of the eight nations discussing the middle east and syria details from new york. the taliban evolves and u.s. troops are put on high alert after sixteen people most of them children die at 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 breadline and this one town that's already given up on the struggling single currency. and in the business bullets and capital outflow is one of the biggest problems dog the russian economy and according to the experts we spoke to it will continue to do so this year all the details. a very warm welcome to you from all of us here at r.t. moscow or rory some showing washington has reportedly begun discussions without eyes on a possible military intervention in syria among the measures being considered are arming the opposition sending troops into a form of humanitarian corridors and an assault on the country's active fences

foreign ministers from member states of the u.n. security council holding a meeting on syria today and in new york as r.t. is more important. 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 the 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 a legitimate representation of this 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. i mean time. criticized for supporting diplomacy saying it's giving assad

a free rein to kill civilians. and to 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 bahrain now i don't think they're in any position to discuss what has been basically a rational constructive wolden 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 or fact of any prevailing international law you have sitting in paris the head of the syrian national you know the s.m.c. you know he's the head of an arm terrorist group opening an operating openly in paris now with this with the head of al qaida and after the attacks in new york for

example there wouldn't be a place on the planet where the united states would have the entire united nations marching in and courting them off the court or killing him and dumping him at sea obviously this group could not operate in syria with impunity without the backing of the united states and the you know the arab league countries and how thousand aggressive stance towards assad has a lead to a string of resignations or 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 talk of the syrian regime these palestinian scribes those accusations. we receiving information now about the reported resignations of key employees in beirut office and they are claiming that the channel has a very provocative stance and has been involved in agenda sating biased reporting these resignations include the managing director of the correspondent and the producer and specific reports that we are hearing particularly from the

correspondent is that al-jazeera refused to publish pictures of almost five his clashing with the syrian army and in addition also ignored a referendum on a new constitution in syria by comparison the channels 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 poverty age and situps and as you can well imagine this is sending a long goals to the international journalism at gender because al-jazeera was said to have 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 royce for could tarries government's stance that simply against the syrian president bashar assad and our viewers many of them will remember that almost directly listen to 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 stating that it is very much pushing the agenda of the qatari and wasting governments that are calling for military intervention in syria. policy reporting now the afghan parliament says the people have run out of patience with a lack of oversight for foreign troops this follows the killing of sixteen afghan civilians by an american soldier who went on a shooting spree on sunday let's discuss this further with sultanzoy a political analyst and a former afghan m.p. now joining us here on the program a good to see you thanks for coming on i'll see you today that's a fairly tough talk there do you think we might see some concrete action by m.p.'s on the governments of bringing u.s. forces to account. i don't know if the employees will

be able to do anything more than what they have done but i hope that the u.s. government and nato takes more concrete steps and the face of this gruesome and barbaric act that's definitely has has created a new low and how. people perceive the presence of foreign troops and was going to the afghan parliament wants a public trial for the soldier any chance of out of her and you think. i would like to say that whatever happens the need for us west and very very transparent and of a quick trial and justice is paramount specially in the light of the fact that all western countries and really united states and and these nice community as a whole will all want rule of law and justice and with governance in this country they have to abide by those standards than self and bring this person and those who

might be aware of his barbaric acts to justice and if this soldier is fit enough to be a soldier then i'm sure he spent enough to stand at quick trial and i quote justice delivery that the people of this country require and rightly so so as we understand the afghan parliament demanding a public trial for the for the soldier after the shooting spree meantime the taliban has vowed revenge does not mean more violence to think. you know unfortunately every time we turn our on we do something we give the pilot on the high and moral ground to take advantage of this sort of a situation and this is so unfortunate that the entire international community with all its might and with all its capability is still on able to manage these kinds of lone rangers and these kinds of. acts that to the interest of many many

nations and the interest of the civilized world to bring normalcy and stability in a country that has been devastated by violence and war and we don't need these kinds of things certainly we have seen some problems in the recent past with the u.s. troops being in afghanistan last month's issue of american soldiers mistakenly burning copies of a koran and now this soldier in the shooting spree killing sixteen people nine of them children it can be said any positive aspects here america liberated iraq america helped to liberate libya now it's been tough to understand there for a number of years can you see some positive effect so surely afghanistan is better off for the u.s. presence than. you know people love countries that eighty percent of them are living below poverty line. their perception is that is that is the reality of poverty corruption and lack of rule of law and to top it off

even the international community that is here to save us is is not able to control its on cycle paths and this cycle is then people say well what is in this for us this is a question that everybody will as what is in this for us government on one hand corruption on the other hand lack of rule of law on the other the only good thing that can happen in my opinion from this disaster is for the united states to show to the people of this country that justice is well justice is immediate and where america maybe all this is merely white washing is different yes slap on the wrist there should be a decisive and and severe punishment i wish we had more time for this but we'd dulled our sultanzoy former afghan m.p. and live in a couple thank you. well coming up here on the program on our cold war talk 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. has flared up in spain once again as thousands flooded streets to protest against tough government cuts and the recently passed you know labor laws but spanish unions staged mass rallies in sixty cities they say the labor reform designed to revitalize the economy will actually undermine workers and cut their rights the new laws were cleared by parliament 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. through feeling that yearly feeds at the moment so it's no surprise that in some places currency in knowledge

is getting in the spring during the year and more than a decade ago he thought you'd seen the last of the old spanish. you're wrong with the country and such a tough economic situation such as the village my own. have been encouraging their customers to reuse their old that's a neat way of generating business and like of the year a country spain has no expire you say for exchanging it's open set is in fact is the need to be more than a billion euros when an exchange with that is still in the country they sometimes run schemes through once again except them giving new light 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 has been great for the economy of the town what's it like owning a business in the code economic climate. but it can be very tough and very boring i spend a lot of evenings making my own finest refined fishing it keeps me entertained but

that was well worth it being created certainly what this town letting the more than a million possesses around six thousand year. it's not just pounds of political to things to spain's alternative economy here in the heart of the capital we come to the store the standard way to avoid using cash altogether even says lee is a good sixteen still that works in a point system in it tells us that you bringing kids get points all day is 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 something you do when i actually really like second hand clothes me and my husband both lost our jobs recently i wasn't too creation on therapist he was in construction so no cheaper better

all these solutions or perhaps a temporary reprieve to the ongoing crisis they are proving that even a dying economic times business is can find ways to flourish and at least make you more happy customers. r.t. being. now a quarter past the hour here in moscow this is arts here after an election rally on sunday nicolas sarkozy warned france will pull out of the e.u. is open border showing get agreement unless the union toughens up its immigration policy earlier the french president pledged to hard the number of illegal immigrants if he's reelected let's not talk to pierre a professor of political science at paris west university thank you for coming on our team today and some rather hard core a right wing rhetoric there from sarkozy why do you think he needs to take such a tough stance well actually very behind in the polls and in nineteen in two thousand and seven you won the election in front of some of the votes that went to

high rates he is campaigning on many topics there are. a group. of people for the first round of. balloting in april. but do you actually think this kind of talk will help to. pull through it is easy stepping enough to the right to get the popular support. well i think it's not really credible because. that fire rape is by. great an art and the people who voted for him five years ago and are going to vote for him this time around they're going through open fire right he'll he were. deceived during the five years by. not being tough enough and you need reach in and so on so i don't think it's going to be very productive and it's an attempt to

control the loss of a lot of votes but it's not going to be there it's. pain in libya has also really flooded europe with illegal immigrants cause he was at the forefront of the entire campaign and now he's threatening to shut down france's borders partly in response to what stemmed from it is that the right way to deal with a problem. well actually there is and i agree there's a flood of illegal immigrants that come from libya i think a lot of people left libya and went to other countries in africa created a massive migration problem this this war which is ill advised costly for it for bogus humanitarian reasons and so on but because from this massive migrations of mostly african prison there is some legal and illegal immigration in france. which existed before the war you know some of it is still. independent of the war

and little in libya but still what he is saying about immigration not only does not make sense but it is not even even to himself there's no way france could decide by itself shame is a polished and then suddenly customs officers will reappear in france you know even if he brags that he's a good friend of merkel in germany if it's all the angular merkel well now we're done with gender and have a nature conflict it's just a political thing but he doesn't believe in it it's a fantasy so as you say it's political posturing perhaps a lot of empty rhetoric but is it possible as you were mentioning the a lot of the immigrants are coming in from africa is a possible that that is a good thing perhaps doing the jobs but many french are unwilling to do add not to pass the point of psychoses father was a hunger an immigrant in the first place. well actually you know the rhetoric of immigration in france does not correspond with reality it is the sarkozy government

claims the big crackdown on immigration and some and if you look there's a very famous serve french political scientist. who studied the figures and basically immigration is for me more or less the same before and after so since there's a crisis the populist rate is using immigration card but it's a real problem look immigration hasn't moved one way or the other with sarkozy just rhetoric in order to attract. the senate probably vote but i don't think it's going to be very productive why gains on that firebreak the more he loses in the center p.r. girl or political science of paris west university thanks for coming on r t it's your welcome thank you for your grandma you can always go to our to talk home for more news blogs and analysis on russian and international stories are here's

a taste of some of the items are waiting for you there right now but a bogus account the nato chief falls victim to a fake accounts and one facebook per cent of friend requests two top military commanders and is sharing his personal data. on the russian opposition and once again tries to catch up public attention by protesting against the results of the presidential election but supported windles the full story at r.t. dot com. all the school rhetoric is alive and well in the united states sixty five years after president harry truman formulated washington's policy of becoming the world's policeman and as the campaign for the next president gains momentum candidates are digging up a little cold war talk of their own party's got into conflicts of recent reset with russia could fall victim to local politicking in the united states. the cold war mean long be over with the leaders of russia and america looking for common ground

under the banner of a reset in relations a cold war sentiment still gone higher 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. and of course three people who are resisting attempted to right out. one of the leading presidential contenders meet lonely went as far as this i think president bush represents a real threat to the. stability and peace of the world and we say many american

politicians have mastered the art of creating and bashing boogie men especially when election campaigns are underway there in the cold war for example being hard on communism was considered a litmus test for a solid trustworthy politician and they 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 and osha 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 anti russian politicians are those who also preach unilateralism in foreign policy which means the u.s. can and will decide whatever he chooses with the rest of the world an idea which flourished after the soviet union's collapse well in new york cons are having a particularly difficult time or use the idea that they can no longer simply snap their fingers and call the shots just ten years ago in the united states that it

was possible to think not really how the iraq war came about in new york on running the show in washington they didn't see the need to consult with great powers to determine whether their course of action once 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 pleasant which is said resay doesn't mean they're rushing this to give up its national interest or the i'm able to express it for you some socially international issues. jim in your. research has nevertheless be useful because it's a new will of trust it was a real will to reach an agreement which has allowed us to reach a new start treaty that will submit to sign an agreement on cooperation in the field of peaceful nuclear energy which ended with us asking russia was able to join

the world trade organization cli's are positive steps tangible results of the research policy but. most analysts agree that the reset to be truly successful both sides have to respect and considerate there's interest the cold war is long gone but it's all 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 stuck in the minds of many u.s. politicians even to this day i'm going to check our polling for launching our team . so i go straight to the business there's going to show obviously still a monday in russia in the western hemisphere how the numbers are going up on the kickoff to the workweek. well with all the doom and gloom coming out of europe investors really turned to china to see some glimpse of hope for economic recovery but we see some bad news coming out of china as well over the weekend it's reported a monthly capital outflow of thirty one billion dollars that's china's largest and

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 and let's see how the equities are performing this hour a european stocks are mixed these foot sea is slipping into red at this hour as u.s. futures point to a lower opening on wall street and here in russia the indices a zigzagging an afternoon trade in my sense is managing to stay above the psychologically important level of sixteen hundred points a one macroeconomic headline that's viewed as positive is that direct foreign investment jumped twenty one percent last year compared to twenty ten but capital outflow remains a big issue more on that in just a minute the biggest movers on the my sex is poor is gold which is gaining despite the fact that gold prices are weaker as well as the lukoil which has seen some

strains and of russia's second largest bank d.t.b. which is being punished by investors are starting to accept the buyback of applications from its shareholders and now a quick luke a look at the oil price which is always the main one of the main factors driving the equity markets and russia and oil is lower namely on concerns about economic growth of china the biggest and then if you consumer and let's now take a look at the currency markets the euro is gaining just cannot you against the dollar and the russian ruble is gaining against the euro but is losing value against the. back. and now capital outflow continues to dog the russian economy of russian banks keep on accumulating foreign assets abroad essentially they're boosting their assets by twelve billion dollars in january that's the biggest one month jump in about three years and again on the ocean from

a of cases things this issue will continue to dominate the russian economy this year right now we lose our position versus many many our competitors in emerging markets in terms of threats and capital not on the president but also the president's. private capital outflow you and your four. hundred friends it goes for about a thousand and one hundred thirty plus in two thousand and thirteen is still an environment in which many potential to generate private capital outflow from the reforms i've introduced. and that's all the latest from the business desk this hour my colleague daniel bushell will bring it up to date in about fifteen minutes.