the u.n. security council foreign ministers prepare. to solve the syrian crisis with the u.s. and its allies now reportedly considering it direct intervention. a nother international effort to end the violent conflict in syria is taking place in new york with the u.n. security council already underway details coming up. still on the resignations of al-jazeera has a number of key stock of the. news channel walk out in protest claiming biased reporting. plus afghanistan demands and justice for the massacre of sixteen

civilians by a u.s. soldier just weeks after the burning of the koran by military personnel ignited anti american sentiment across the country. worldwide news around the clock this is the live from moscow with me. as the violence in syria rages on the u.s. and its allies are now reportedly considering all options including direct military intervention despite warnings from the pentagon with the american saying the cost of starting a new war would be too high dozens have reportedly been killed across syria on monday the death toll believed by the u.n. to stand out over seventy five hundred the international community has been unable to reach a consensus on how to act ever since the bloodshed flared up

a year ago un security council foreign ministers also. down in new york to try to break the deadlock let's get the latest now from our he's in very important joining us from the big apple we're going to there been several attempts to pass a resolution on syria at the security council but that hasn't happened yet what are the expectations of today's meeting to think. that's right as you mentioned security council says lee has been in deadlock over how to handle the conflict in syria like this meeting taking place shows how serious the problem is because you have foreign ministers that have flown in from all over the world to discuss the situation including russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov this meeting will discuss how to approach the problem in syria a problem that's been going on for nearly a year at this point we do know that all members of the council believe that humanitarian aid needs to go into syria as soon as possible to treat all those in need of assistance but there needs to be. security council members are saying

a cease fire on both sides now u.n. arab envoy to syria mr kofi anon was recently in syria met with syrian president bashar al assad but left without any ceasefire agreement what all members of the security council do agree on is that. if you place down the bullets need to stop flying there needs to be dialogue and negotiations taking place between both sides in syria now we do know that you know history has shown that russia and china oppose any international intervention in military intervention in syria saying that they do not want to see a repeat of what has happened in libya the u.s. and its european allies and some arab countries have pushed for more kind of intervention in the past but also called for president bashar al assad to step down russia and china many other countries maintain their position that the

international community cannot be used as a tool of the security council cannot be used as a tool to overthrow governments that it's up to the syrians to decide the fate of their country in the future but at this point what this meeting is about is to try to stop the violence violence that's been going on for nearly a year according to the u.n. more than said. the five hundred people have been killed in syria since the uprisings began so i think that this is a new found effort to reach some type of consensus maybe there will be a resolution but that resolution will only be supported by russia and china if it is seen as balanced if it does not call for any government to step down if it is truly aimed at humanitarian goals and and needs of the syrian people so this meeting is now beginning thirty council members before that we should also mention that there was a brief meeting of the middle east quartet in which our foreign minister lavrov

took part and also mr lavrov is scheduled for a bilateral meeting with his u.s. counterpart hillary clinton later on in the day of course they're going to be discussing how the u.s. and russia can agree on how to approach syria and hopefully end the conflict in the near future but there will be several developments throughout the day to force you to keep our viewers updated as more information does become available certainly murden as we've been talking to you we've been looking at live pictures from the united nations with the with the big dignitaries from various countries attending and having this meeting as you say we trust so you'll keep a close watch on what developments to come out of the u.n. meeting regarding syria our teams were reporting live in new york thank you. well a number of. the arabic channel have resigned over the television stations coverage of the syrian conflict those who left accuse the qatari network of politicizing news and of bias against president assad well correspondent paula syria has more.

we receiving information now about the reported resignations of key employees in old. office and they are claiming that the channel has a very provocative stance and has been involved in a dream just stating biased reporting these resignations include the managing director 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 armed fighters clashing with the syrian army and in addition also ignored a brief on a new constitution in syria by comparison the channel's coverage of events in bahrain. has practically ignored what has been happening very in libya we are now receiving some kind of leaked information that the channel was involved in fake coverage and sit ups and as you can well imagine this is sending a long goals to the international journalism at the end because al-jazeera was set

up 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. 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 after it was initially refused such licensing rights and this has made many critics to say that this granting was because of the channels change in terms of an agenda setting that it is very much pushing the agenda and wasting governments that are calling for military intervention in syria so his policy reporting right i mean sort of middle east expert tariq ali uses the al-jazeera network went from good to simply because of state interference. when it started of course there was very little

interference in fact we're training now on. the tram or in its early days and it was into light control to be nature's turner lists and to see the stuff we were doing what went wrong is that has the perth reid regime began to have you lose them could play a big role in the region and it's a stupid even if you like or a vessel stave of the great city it's this ratio of a collapse in egypt. this began to affect their television networks and subsequently with the war in libya the channel became an open propaganda trammell during be libyan war many people stopped watching i was to see her because he wanted a better balanced picture it's not that they were broken elfie him exactly the same thing is happening in relation to syria now and the op you know and the coverage of

part of it was appalling utterly appalling and so it has become a sanctuary a channel which touts the building off its state. you're watching live from moscow and still to come for you in the program ditching the euro but find out how spanish shopkeepers are coming up with creative ways to keep the country's economy alive or spain struggles to stay afloat amid a massive debt crisis and for more on the global economy over to daniel that the r.t. business the ask you. what you finance ministers on this today business news is in fifteen minutes. i think so you will see that the afghan parliament has to banning a public trial for the u.s. soldier who gunned down sixteen afghan civilians he turned himself into nato orthe already started the massacre on saturday in the kandahar province and most of the dead are women and children it's unclear what led to the outrage and the u.s.

marine is in custody meanwhile the witnesses reportedly claimed there were several gunman all of them were drunk washington has apologized for the incident but the afghan president says it was quote and forgivable the taliban is vowing revenge and nato forces in the country are on high alert as follows day use of deadly protests last month over the burning of the koran as an american base in afghanistan a former. member of the afghan parliament told us here at r.t. that nato still has a lot to prove after more than a decade of occupation. poverty corruption. top it off even the international community that is here to save us is is not able to control its own psychopaths and. then people say well what is in it for us this is a question that everybody will as what is in this for us. on one hand on the other hand lack of rule of law the only good thing that can happen in my opinion from

this disaster is for the united states this road to the people of this country that justice is west justice is immediate and wherever it may go. this is merely a whitewash really literally a slap on the wrist this should be a decisive and severe punishment. all right time it's past the hour here in moscow still ahead for you in the program a blast from the past. there is a desire to. sleep. when it comes to foreign policy to sell your campaign to the wider population as the race that to the white house gains that moment some candidates are pulling out all the stops all the old scare tactics as well some going all the way back to the days of the cold war. french president nicolas sarkozy has threatened to pull out of the european visa free shango an agreement unless the e.u.

toughened up measures against illegal immigration thousands of genius humans were allowed into the e.u. following the arab uprisings last year when italy granted residents to refugees fleeing the violence let's talk more on this with alex wardell from the points dot org website thank you for coming on our team today some strong statements coming from mr sarkozy do you believe he'll follow up on his words or is it just election rhetoric well to be frank thought sarkozy has been trailing behind israel the only. problem on snow and it is now twenty nine percent from fort hood on and twenty seven percent for and you could see we could only see like six weeks before the first from the pope to console election. so yes president sarkozy is clearly courting right wing voters. and when he's

ranting against free trade and immigration is really advocating for more protectionism and you see protectionism is really popular in for. all the electorate but especially for the working class and the working class has been really key to the election of two thousand and seven as you say that as you say pre-election rhetoric here he certainly catering for the want of votes but as you mentioned a moment ago sarkozy is trailing in the polls do you think his apparent lurched to the right could actually help him to secure more votes in his bid for the presidency well you know this kind of strategy is clearly working in the past few days he has gained two percent in the polls just because of. the relying of. voters so it's clearly working during his whole presidency monday night he really stressed. clear right wing policies

for example the creation of the national i don't teach the ministry of the expelling of numerous realms or the debate between the debate on the place and influence of islam in france so it's not a it's not a new thing and it's clearly working ok as you say it's working a two percent increase in the polls as of late but if i may what are the chances that president sarkozy's move could actually backfire losing him votes from people who might be turned off by his stars it certainly goes both ways does it not. yes you are to the right. there was. an opinion poll that stated that more than fifty four percent of the french electorate is really receptive to a protectionism and right now is certainly one of the key issues here is europe's recent immigration troubles certainly a wave of it started during the arab spring and certainly after nato's campaign in

libya which of course was essentially initiated by sarkozy shouldn't sarkozy be accepting his own policies for increasing immigration which he now wants to. well you know you you're really underlining a very a very good point. i mean because if you regime was a very useful to europe into a process specially for three reasons the first reason is libya was mass transit country for immigrants that we're going to your bill second reason let's known is a libya was also a very. really a very important. natural resources especially and gas and that was really really important for italian companies. good reason that. libya was also a big consumer of military technology and weapons that was very very important for

. the french company linked. to the political world in france and also. very huge contracts. when in comes to. this story uranium mining. i mean you can if you wish it was a. very big so as you say as you say i didn't follow dr smith dropping but as you say there was a very cozy economic relationship between libya and between france as well mr corbell i'm afraid that's all the time we have for hearty but we do thank you becoming on alec's call bell a spokesman of course not one thought thank you thank you. meanwhile i go has once again fled in spain with demonstrations across sixty cities against spending cuts and new employment laws protesters say the new labor law is designed to revitalize the economy simply make it easier and cheaper for employers

to fire start spain has one of the highest unemployment rates in the eurozone but as the country struggles to stay within the euro one town is encouraging its people to go back to the old days. through feeling that you're a big piece at the moment so it's no surprise that in some places currency in a style just setting in the spain during the euro more than a decade ago if you thought you'd seen the last of the old spanish perceptor you were wrong we can hear such a tough economic situation something such as the village my oldest son had been encouraging their customers to read their old that is a unique way of generating business and like of the country spain has no expire you date for exchanging its old cassette is in fact is estimated that there are more than a billion euros worth of an exchange to set is still in the country so some towns are run schemes to once again except the giving 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 current economic climate. can be very tough and very boring i spend a lot of evenings making my own flies for fly fishing he keeps me entertained there was a lot of work being created certainly worked for this town letting the more than a million set is surround six thousand euros. it's not just towns and villages that are contributing to spain's alternative economy here in the heart of the cut so we've come to a store that's found a way to avoid using cash also gather. even says lee is a good six change still that works on a points system then it tells us that you bringing kids get points for days gears and you can then purchase other things in the store and best of all no cash needed

. i think it's interesting to barter for in something that you no longer need and something you do when oh boy i actually really like second hand clothes my husband also lost our jobs recently i was in a good position 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 to die economic times businesses can find ways to flourish and at least make you more happy customers. r.t. being. and in times of political and economic turmoil it seems new ways of being developed to maintain public order find out more on our web site r t v dot com how about a new kind of machine that security forces might use to disperse crowds already rather pricey a mobile microwave if those details that are to come also online. so

i think for a few dollars less well look quite a few in fact with egypt embroiled in a major route of n.g.o.s in the country to find out why it's turning away more than a billion dollars in u.s. aid. twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow the world update a moment away. cold war may have ended decades ago but it seems a little has changed in the minds of leading politicians on capitol hill as the u.s. presidential race what's up some candidates appear to be stuck in the past digging up cold war rhetoric from days gone by he's got an agent you can look at whether the reset between russia and the u.s. could be left crumbling by america's lack of respect for russian interests. the

cold war main long be over with the leaders of russia and america looking for common ground under the banner of a reset in relations but cold war sentiment still darn hot 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. the poor people who are resisting it could have been right out there one of the leading presidential contenders meet while he 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 calling you nothing 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 well in new york cons are having a particularly difficult time where is 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 that is exactly how the iraq war came about and the new york cons running the show in washington and they didn't seem to need to consult with great powers to determine whether their course of action was it's acceptable to them 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 will target russia president elect said reset doesn't mean that russia has to give up its national interests or be unable to express experience some control 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 has allowed us to reach a new start treaty we also signed 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 policy. most analysts agree that the reset to be truly successful both sides have to respect and consideration there's interest called 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 stuck in the mind of many u.s. politicians even to this day i'm going to washington r.t. . in a moment daniel with the business but for now let's get to some other global headlines and brief or start with gaza where israeli air strikes have killed two militants and a teenage boy as palestinian rockets hit southern israel and the violence is continuing into a fourth day sparked by israel killing a high ranking palestinian resistance leader twenty one palestinians have died while two israelis have been injured in what's the worst violence the region has

seen for a year members of the middle east quartet are meeting in new york to try and work out a new road map for peace as the first time the group sat down together in six months . three separate attacks have left fourteen people dead in iraq the first took place in the town of total media as gunmen killed three policemen at the local mayor's office two other officers were then shot dead a few kilometers down the road in a drive by shooting few hours later two carloads of robbers with grenades and guns attacked a baghdad gold market and killed nine and no one has yet claimed responsibility for the attacks but al qaeda is being blamed. fourteen people have died in istanbul after a fire swept through attended a construction site it was being used to house workers building a supermarket officials believe the blaze was caused by an electrical heater.

let's do it head first into the world of business hello daniel so we understand china is influencing the world stock markets on this hour yes i remember traders had pinned their hopes on the country driving world economic growth but news of a monthly trade deficit of more than thirty one billion dollars in a decade was more than most analysts expected and that's got the stock markets jittery let's check them out now u.s. stocks are gaining momentum after opening nearly on changed you're ready to see you greece's risk you package the nasdaq has slipped into the red on to europe which has been talking all day it's now barely hanging on to gains extending last week's three day rally investors are worried by the progress spain's made on cutting its debts as e.u. finance ministers examine madrid's latest figures on to the russian more markets here in moscow let's check them out now the altar is down at the moment as is the more six really suffering some contagion from the problems affecting the world economy if we move on from specific stalk movers on the my six of this hour police

called is extending its strong gains today also just in the black the producer there v t v has slipped into the red almost one percent down this. the price. which lights we see is just under one hundred six dollars a barrel brant is also going down it's now at one hundred twenty four dollars moving on to the currencies where we see that the list you can get the chorus is not there. yet so the euro is gaining as the u.s. dollar just we're also seeing gains from the u.s. dollar and the. brutal so that's all the business we have for this hour there's more interest to this time.

culture is the so much the been maybe you should visit israel are you trying to hide from the market because the mean arab middle east and beyond what is the condition of the arab spring are humanitarian interventions effective what about the lack.