says once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. operations are today. live pictures from new york as u.n. security council foreign ministers prepare a renewed push to solve the syrian crisis as the u.s. and its allies reportedly consider correct action. foreign minister sergei lavrov says any military intervention into syria would only exacerbate the violence already taking place there details from new york straight at. and still in the conflict their resignations of zero as a number of key staff at the arabic news channel walkout in protest claiming reporting. plus afghanistan demands justice for the massacre of sixteen civilians

by u.s. soldiers just weeks after the burning of the qur'an military personnel ignited anti american sentiment across the country our top stories this hour. international news and comment live from moscow with twenty four hours a day as the violence in syria rages on the u.s. and its allies are now reportedly considering all options including direct military intervention that's despite warnings from the pentagon with the american top brass saying the cost of starting a new war will be too high dozens of reportedly been killed across syria on monday adding to the death toll believed by the u.n. to stand today but seven hundred thousand the international community has been unable to reach a consensus on how to act since the bloodshed flared up a year ago un security council foreign ministers are meeting in new york to try to

break the deadlock. has the latest from the big. we did hear from russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov saying that russia is ready and prepared to support a resolution on syria but it must be a balanced one we do know in the past russia has use its veto two times to prevent u.s. and european resolutions on syria from going through because russia believes that it was not balanced for many reasons including the fact that it called for syrian president bashar al assad to step down now mr lavrov addressed security council members today they are discussing and reviewing the arab spring uprisings and also talking about the situation in syria according to russia's foreign minister he said that the international community at this point should not be bickering about who started the bloodshed in syria nearly a year ago all the focus should be and efforts should be about ensuring a ceasefire in syria as soon as possible and supporting syrian led inclusive

dialogue a word inclusive is the one to underscore here because russia maintains the position that this whatever happens in syria should be decided by the syrians and that includes getting the opposition groups and the syrian government to the table to engage in dialogue and also to support efforts by the u.n. arab league envoy kofi annan who was recently in damascus but left without ensuring a ceasefire between president assad and the opposition groups now as i mentioned mr lavrov said that russia is prepared to support security council resolution on syria and this is something that the security council wants to of course chief in the near future but he said that resolution must be balanced take a listen. this isn't just designed to save you some social issues it was using them from positions to use to. do some sort of

. fortunately. piece of jupiter. only results in a sprint if you can't confront. russia in the us still remain as divided as they have been because russia will not support any moves for regime change put forth by the international community and that is something that mrs clinton in her speech said that the international community should support so it seems as though those two parties remain as divided as they have that. a number of key staff and arabic channels have resigned over the television stations coverage of the syrian conflict those who left accuse the contrary oh network of politicizing news and of bias against president assad i correspond to slip as more. we receiving information now about the reported resignations of key employees in al-jazeera 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 the correspondent and the producer and specific reports that we are hearing particularly from a correspondent is that al-jazeera refused to publish pictures of armed fighters clashing with the syrian army and in addition also ignored every full rein them on the new constitution in syria by comparison the channels coverage of events in bahrain was minimal it's has practically ignored what has been happening very in we are now receiving some kind of information that the channel was involved in fake coverage and sit ups and as you can well imagine this is sending alarm bells to the international journalism at gender because al-jazeera was since 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 worries 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 after 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 we could tare and western governments that are calling for military intervention in syria policy of their own middle east expert to the colonies so that the old network from good to birds because of state interference. when it started of course there was very little interference in fact virtually none i just took the channel in its early days and it was into light control to the

managers the journalists and to see the stuff they were doing and what went wrong is that as the katherine regime began to illusion could play a big role in the region and it's a stupid even if you like or a vessel state of like states this ratio of american e.q. . began to affect their head of vision networks and subsequently with the war in libya the channel became an open propaganda trammell tearing be a libyan war many people stopped watching i was just here or because they wanted to get a balanced picture it's not that there were proper delphic in exactly the same thing is happening in relation to syria now and we are you know and the country. by the most appalling utterly appalled and so it has become essentially a channel which does the bidding of it stick. coming up later here in r.t.e.

teaching the euro spanish shopkeepers are coming up with creative ways to keep the country's economy alive as spain's struggles to stay afloat amid a massive debt crisis but for more on the global economy let's now go to daniel at the business desk. getting tough on cultural companies will have all of them all into it's a bit. the afghan parliament is demanding a public trial for the u.s. soldier who gunned down sixteen afghan civilians he turned himself in to nato authorities after the massacre on saturday in kandahar province most of the dead are women and children it's unclear what led to the rampage in the u.s. marine is in custody meanwhile witnesses reportedly claim there were several government all of them drunk washington has apologized for the incident but the

afghan president says it is unfit give a bill the taliban is vowing revenge and nato forces in the country are on high alert this follows days of deadly protests last month over the burning of the qur'an at an american base in afghanistan a former member of the afghan parliament told r.t. that nato still has a lot to prove after more than a decade of occupation. poverty corruption. to a proper of even the international community that is here to save us is is not able to control its own. then people say well what is in it for us this is a question that everybody will as what is in this for us government on one hand on the other hand. the only good thing that can happen in my opinion disaster is for the united states to sort of the people of this country that just this is just this is immediate where it made. me. whitewashing literally

a slap on the rest there should be a decisive and severe punishment. the international quartet on the middle east is meeting at the u.n. headquarters in new york today members are hoping to set a roadmap for peace in israel palestine it comes after israeli airstrikes killed two militants and a teenage boy in gaza as palestinian rockets hit southern israel the violence is continuing into its fourth day sparked by israel killing a high ranking palestinian resistance leader twenty one palestinians have died since friday in the worst violence the region seen for a year human rights activist graham says israel's attacks on gaza are unlikely to end anytime soon is the same rhetoric you hear from israel over and over again even last night you had house targeted civilian house targeted and where there was twenty five injured children and nine women this is a complete violation of the geneva convention and yet the world has stood by me and

hasn't even condemned us this israel will continue to attack and nobody will stand up against them until some major powers stands up to israel and says enough is enough they're going to continue their attacks and this is sadly the palestinians have to take the brunt of this this is just ludicrous it's real this continues to escalate this this violence if they start then you will find the palestinians will start firing rockets there's been nearly twenty three i think twenty three deaths at the moment and sixty five injuries on the palestinian side and i think as for the israeli side for slightly injured on the israeli side this is this is not a balanced and balanced fight anywhere. french president nicolas sarkozy has threatened to pull out of the european visa free sheng get an agreement unless the e.u. toughens up measures against illegal immigration thousands of tunisians were allowed

into the e.u. following the arab uprisings last year when he said he granted residents permits to refugees fleeing violence and something that is simply trying to win more immigration votes in the presidential elections in two thousand and seven he won the election in part because it's a fund of some of the votes are going to the higher rates he is campaigning on many topics that are topics of predilections of the far right to a group star is a very broad thing people for the first round of. balloting in. the tirade is why harmful brayton are and the people voted for him five years ago i'm not going to vote for him this time around if you include of bahrain has the feel they were. deceived during the five years by. not being tough enough and immigration is are just is there's

a crisis the populist great is using immigration because. the real problem of immigration hasn't moved one way or the other side because it's just rhetoric in order to attract the populist xenophobic vote but i don't think it's going to be very productive because why gains on the fire rate the more he loses in the center. meanwhile anger is once again flared in spain with demonstrations across sixty cities again spending cuts and new employment laws protesters say the new labor rules designed to revitalize the economy simply make it easier and cheaper for employers to fire staff spain is one of the highest unemployment rates in the eurozone but as the country struggles to stay within the euro one tile is encouraging its people to go back to the old days. grouping a bit you're a fig leaf at the moment so it's no surprise that in some places currency is

counters getting in the spain during the euro more than a decade ago you thought you'd seen the last of the old spanish because you were wrong with a conscience such a tough economic situations such as the villain my own. have been encouraging their customers through their old that. way of generating business and like of the year a country spain has no expire the date for exchanging it's all to set is the fact is that the native bit there are more than a billion euros worth of an exchange but that is still in the country they sometimes run schemes to once again except the giving new lie 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 current economic climate. it can be very tough and very boring i spend a lot of evenings making my own fines for flying fishing he keeps me entertained

there is a lot of work being created certainly what this town nothing more than a million has that is six thousand euros. it's not just towns or villages that are contributing to spain's alternative economy here in the heart of the capital we come to a store that's under way to avoid using cash altogether. even says lee is a good sixteen still in the works and a point system tells us that you bringing kids get points for days you can and purchase other things in the store and best of all no cash needed it's only. i think it's interesting to. be able to barter for something that you no longer need and something you do when i actually really like second hand clothes me and my husband lost our jobs recently i was in a good professional therapist i was in construction so no.

obvious solutions or perhaps a temporary reprieve to the ongoing crisis we are proving that even in dying economic times businesses can find ways to flourish and at least make you more happy customers. r.t. being. finance ministers from euro zone countries are meeting tonight to discuss final approval for greece's second bailout but with spain also on the agenda talk more now on the continuing euro zone crisis we go and show what auto he's a writer and journalist joining me from madrid let's start with greece with well the country hopes to get the approval for that second bailout today does that mean the worst is over that's what the greek finance minister and the french president think. well let's say that in politics i guess the same is for the economy the

most pressing their injury is your main concern is the danger you have to face today and at this point. the bailout for greece is the main page and if they succeed in that and it seems that they are going to succeed in getting the bailout that the new bailout well they will be better than yesterday of course then they will have to face that means that the next danger and then the next one and. of course they are far from from from from saving from having saved the themselves from from the situation which they are in well as we just said a little earlier spain is on the agenda at that meeting today where you are at the moment a lot of concerns about the spanish economy what's happening there. well let's say that at this point spain has nine or conflict with brussels because the new prime minister has decided that he will not go for the for the deficit target that was set by the european union for this year he says he will comply next year but not

this year he gave a higher figure than the one european union wanted to force it on spain and there would be a discussion about this no doubt i doubt whether he will get out of hand they think that in this spain may be opening the way for other countries to revise their deficit targets because they are too tough they are impossible to beat and i think it goes to the credit of the new prime minister that he was courageous and asked to to say so i think in the case of the spain the whole meeting today is going to revolve around the earth so not so sure that it's very so not going for that deficit target does it not mean it will be reprimanded by the euro finance ministers there in brussels. yes sure they are going to be reprimanded the question is that in the long run i'm sure that all the countries will join spain and then everybody will. finally decide to. get in the economy not just in spain but

in most european countries so maybe spain east now leading the way with this decision spain there not only greece does it not need a bailout because it is bust doesn't it as a country. well let's say that this impression is very different the figures are completely different spain does not have a very high a very high it's a spanish there flatly slower than that of germany or britain or many other countries the deficits this is not very i mean it's not a small thing it's around eight percent probably which is high but it's not. it's not terrible the problem with spain is unemployment it's so different thing because the problem with unemployment in spain is not caused by the crisis it has been aggravated stream really by the crisis but it's a structural is something that has to do with the way in which the spanish economy works over reliance on the brake industry on tourism industry etc all those things

will not go away even if the crisis goes away which doesn't seem to be happening now so let's say spain so it's in a different league from that of greece i don't see how what's happening in greece could happen to spain very soon of course if the crisis go on anything can happen but we're talking about different sizes of economy different problems except when there is an unemployment problem because the spanish were being given far too high wages in comparison to other countries and that's what got them in the mess in the first place and the people in spain are going to have to adjust but clearly not happy with that after all we've seen me protest against the new unemployment initiatives coming up in the employment initiatives in spain it's going to be a very politically difficult one for the government isn't it more protests in spain . yes well i asked for the salaries of spain has probably one of the lowest average in terms of salaries in europe salaries in the spain where outrageously low already now with the new labor laws will become even lower so that's certainly not

the problem neither is overspending the governments in spain did not spend much leader they did have a surplus actually right before the crisis so you know it's simply that we have too many people working in the same thing in construction building houses we have a huge industry of construction. and of course that's a bubble that sooner or later goes bust and that's what the crisis cost to happen and then of course would rely too much interest which is which of course it's it's a station only works for certain months or a year except we have a very weak labor market and the new laws which are intended to improve for at least labor market will probably improve certain aspects of it and you know there are aspects that will make it certainly easier to fire people and hence all these demonstrations and protests people who is worried that the new labor laws will will not benefit the economy but actually will make firing people much easier let's talk

about those demonstrations over the in employment laws there in spain the demonstrations we're seeing the measures in greece what implications politically does this have not just for the governments there in those countries but of course across the whole of europe will we not see that sort of reaction happening elsewhere could in fact europe be facing political upheaval and more widespread unrest. well in spain is just starting to actually leave because the people are beginning to feel the pain of the austerity cuts it will increase it will it will be worse. it goes by so yes i think we should expect more demonstrations even a generalist strike has been called. in the near future so yes i doubt it really in the case of the spain though i think the government the new government has an advantage they just want an election so they have a legitimacy that at least for some time we'll shilled them from

a political crisis they have been just voted in office so they can always say that we have a mandate so this is what we should do but interestingly enough they had already change in them but their mind because in the electoral campaign they were talking about much tougher measures now they are trying to now they are trying to tune. their message because they know that people they see people the sangria it's worried it's a scared. no government even a government that has its embassy. one of the people to be against them if the trade union movement. goes back to business and. it's all power in spain and we have strikes a lot of the across the border then it could be a problem for the government of course really interesting to hear your thoughts there live from madrid we will ensure another writer and journalist there frank for time and some other news from around the world at this stage of the general world

update three separate attacks have left fourteen people the first place in the town of tal mia this gunman 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 a few hours later two carloads robbers with grenades and guns attacked a god gold market and killed nine and no one has yet claimed responsibility for the attacks but al qaeda is being blamed. the. u.n. special chief on torture is falsely accuse the u.s. government of cruel and inhumane treatment toward u.s. army private bradley manning has been held in military custody since may two thousand and ten on suspicion of being the source of a massive leak of classified american documents and diplomatic cables to the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks un investigation over fourteen months concluded that manning was kept in solitary solitary confinement for twenty three hours a day for nearly a year in conditions where torture was suspected. around a hundred people have been killed in south sudan in the latest wave of ethnic

clashes and cattle raids officials say several hundred people have been injured during the fighting with large numbers of animals stolen cattle raids and revenge attacks have killed thousands of people in south sudan since independence last year . so that brings you up to date for the moment back in the summer. already billion dollars. more than expected the stock market jittery let's have a look at them now that they'll struggling to hit thirteen hundred in the nasdaq three thousand points on china angry concerns traders are also waiting for he first quarter corporate results expected to be particularly strong. there's been talk to trading mixed after a three day rally last week investors are worried by the progress train has to make on cutting its hit as well as the e.u. finance ministers examining the latest figures. on new foreign direct investment

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