u.n. security council foreign ministers launched a renewed push to solve the syrian crisis is the u.s. and its allies reportedly consider direct action. russia's foreign minister says military intervention into syria will bring even more disaster to an ongoing bloody conflict he tells from new york coming up. and stood on the conflict their resignations of houses zero as a number of key staff of the qatar and arabic news channel broke out in protest claiming biased reporting. plus afghanistan demands justice for the massacre of

sixteen civilians by u.s. soldiers just weeks after the burning of the qur'an but military personnel ignited a wave of anti-american sentiment across the country our top stories this hour. international news and comment live from moscow where were you twenty four hours a day as the violence rages on in syria 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 believe by the u.n. the standard over seven and a half thousand 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 minister. meeting in new york to try to

break the deadlock and parties report now has the latest for us now from the big apple the idea of passing a u.n. resolution on syria remains a sticking point among some members of the security council so has there been any progress on that front. well in the aftermath of the high level meeting at the u.n. security council we did see that there is a consensus among the foreign ministers they all agree that there has to be an intent untended humanitarian aid into syria as quickly as possible all parties also agree that there must be a cease fire now where there still remains a divide is the fact that the u.s. and european allies are calling for a political transition in syria and russia maintains that there should not be a call for regime change by the security council we did hear from russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov he addressed the security council saying that now is the

time at this stage the international community should be putting all of its focus on supporting humanitarian assistance into syria getting both sides of the conflict in syria to engage finally in a dialogue and to get a cease fire accomplished in syria mr lavrov said now is not the time for bickering and blaming and holding one side accountable the other side of accountable at this point while as many many lives are continue to be at risk in syria it is most important to get both sides to put their arms down and to get the bullets to stop flying now russia's foreign minister says that moscow remains committed to supporting a resolution in the security council that house to be a balanced resolution that does not take sides a resolution that focuses on the people of syria and bringing aid to those that have been hurt and compromised from the ongoing violence that's been you know waging for nearly a year russia's foreign minister said that he believes there are many countries

that are actually provoking the violence and allowing it to continue by taking sides of the ongoing conflict in syria he elaborated on that you should take take a listen. thank you see it's not me it was at least the social tensions you can choose your because you can do some good for the opposition is doing what you do is to some of the authorities and sort of come to the lord. for solutions to the. needs of g. politically was. the result i'm screwed if you don't feel you come from. moscow has reaffirmed this position over and over again that this is not about supporting one regime or another but rather this is this issue in particular is about trying to maintain compliance with the rules of international law syria is a sovereign state and that's why moscow believes that it is up to the people of

syria to decide the fate of their future in the meantime his counterpart u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton also addressed the security council saying that now is the time for all nations to stand behind the plan that was spelled out by the arab league now that plan calls for in part for syrian president bashar al assad to step down step aside ms clinton reaffirmed washington's position of supporting political transition in syria and this of course leaves the u.s. and russia divided on the issue of syria because while they both support humanitarian assistance as soon as possible in syria russia will not approve any resolution that calls for regime change so the conversations negotiations will continue at the u.n. in the next few hours and as more information does become available we will look at our viewers renay thanks very much at the top he's going to point out that in new york when a number of key staff at al-jazeera is are being channeled have resigned over the

television stations coverage of the syrian conflict those who left accuse the terrio network of politicizing news and of bias against president assad and of course more importantly has more on this. we're 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 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 every film rained 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 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. 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 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 lassen saying rights and this has made many critics to say that there's granting was because of the channels change in terms of an agenda setting that is very much pushing the agenda of the qatari and western governments that are calling for military intervention in syria. pulis lir their knowledge is there as former beirut bureau chief. resigned from the channel eleven months ago citing what

he claimed was a lack of professionalism and objectivity he told r.t. he believes the contrary stations reporting of the arab spring revolts was. political. i know. i do believe that al-jazeera and other channels were not balanced in dealing with events all over sponsible for instance with respect to the events in syria and bahrain we started to invite us to america criticize the regime in syria and support the regime in bahrain and people who justify their leaders intervention and this is unacceptable because of the domination of the political agenda over these channels ritual policies were politically oriented. frankly the coverage of the events in libya and syria was misleading and had the truth i see it is frankly things are now unveiling about how some channels fabricated events footage yes and so on this is shameful the audience have started to realize this

fabrication is starting to see reality in some countries which is quite different from the reality pictured by these channels. live here in moscow coming up a little later this hour ditching the euro find out how funny shopkeepers are coming up with creative ways to keep the country's economy alive and spain struggles to stay afloat amid a massive debt crisis. that's still to come for you but first the afghan parliament is demanding a public trial for the u.s. soldier who gunned down sixteen afghan civilians he turned himself into 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 and the u.s. marine is in custody meanwhile witnesses reportedly claimed there were several government all of them drunk washington's apologized for the incident but the afghan president says it's unthinkable the taliban is vowing revenge and nato forces in the country are in higher alert as 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 prop 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 oh well what is it is 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. the only good thing that can happen in my opinion from just disaster is for the united states to sort of the people of this country that justice is where justice is immediate and where it may go. to be a whitewash be a slap on the rest there should be a decisive and severe punishment. still ahead for the blast from the past.

a desire to. speak part. when it comes to foreign policy or to sell your campaign to the wider population. as the race to the white house gains momentum the candidates are pulling out all the stops and all the old scare tactics to with son going way back to the days of the cold war. the first french president nicolas sarkozy has threatened to pull out of the european visa free shang get an agreement unless the e.u. toughens up measures against illegal immigration thousands of two museums were allowed into the e.u. following the arab uprisings last year when italy granted residence permits to refugees fleeing violence but some think sarkozy 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 safe and off some of the votes that went to the fire rates he is campaigning on many topics there are the topics of preselections

of the far right to a group as far as you can you know very broken people for the first round of. balloting in a holy fire rages why harmful break now are and the people who voted for him five years ago and are going to vote for him this time around we're going to open fire right because they feel they were. deceived during the five years by. not being tough enough and immigration aside so since there's a crisis the populist great is using immigration as a card but the real problem of immigration hasn't moved one way or the other with sarkozy just rhetoric in order to attract the populist xenophobic vote but i don't think it's going to be very productive because the war against on the fire rate the more he loses in the center. i mean what i got was once again flared

in spain with demonstrations across sixty cities and spending cuts and you pointed at last protests to say the new labor rules designed to revitalize the economy simply to get easier and cheaper for employers to hire staff strain is one of the highest unemployment rates in the eurozone as the country struggles to stay within the euro one is encouraging its people to go back to the old days. through feeling a bit yearly fatigues at the moment so it's no surprise that in some places currency is knowledge is setting in greece spain during the euro more than a decade ago if you thought you'd seen the last of the old spanish because you were wrong with the country is such a tough economic situation something else such as the village my oldest son thiago have been encouraging their customers to reuse their old that. way of generating business and like of the year a country spain has no expire you date for exchanging it all the set is in fact is

that the native there are more than a billion euros where an exchange to set is still in the country they sometimes even 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 trade 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 keeps me entertained there was a lot of work being created certainly what this town letting the more than a million has that is six thousand euro is. it's not just pounds a village is a contributing to spain's alternative economy here in the heart of the capital we come to a store that's found a way to avoid using cash altogether. even says lee is

a good sixteen still that works on a point system tells us that you bringing kids get points for days good new can and 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 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 position on therapist who was in construction so no. better all the solutions are perhaps exemplary were free to be ongoing crisis they are proving that even in economic times businesses can find ways to flourish and at least make you more happy customers. r.t. game. 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 but

writer and journalist with well i'm sure a lot of says the madrid isn't likely to find itself in the same situation as i things. at this point spain has nine zero conflict with 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 spain does not have a very high dept of spanish steps actually slower than that of germany or britain or many other countries the deficit is it's not very i mean it's not a small thing it's around eight percent probably which is high but it's not a strong nickel it's not terrible the problem with spain is unemployment which is so different thing because the problem with unemployment in spain is not caused by the crisis it has been of aid to stream really by the crisis but it is a structural is something that has to do with the way in which spanish economy

works over reliance on the break industry into this an industry cetera 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 so i don't see how what is happening in greece could happen to spain very soon of course if the crisis go on and the thing can happen but we're talking about different sizes of economy different problems except for. in times of political and economic turmoil it seems new ways are being developed to maintain public order more nowhere to turn off people coming but a new kind of machine security a new kind of machine that security forces might use to disperse crowds already the rather pricey microwave oven all the details on that at r.t. dot com. also for a few dollars less well quite a few in fact the egyptian brand and a major role of n.g.o.s in the country find out why it's turning away more than

a billion dollars in u.s. aid those stories and plenty of others at r.t. dot com. the international court on the middle east has met at u.n. headquarters in new york today the group's first meeting in six months members were hoping to set a roadmap for stalled negotiations between israel and palestine to restart though a representative of the group said the peace process continues to stagnate it comes after israeli air strikes killed two militants and a teenage boy and gaza palestinian rockets hit southern israel the violence is continuing into its fourth day by israel killing a high ranking palestinian resistance leader twenty one palestinians have died since friday in the worst violence the region seen for years 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 targeted civilian house targeted injured 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 idly 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 israel this continues to escalate this this violence if they start then you will find that the palestinians will start firing rockets there's been nearly twenty two 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 balance for a balanced fight in anywhere. some other news from around the world at this stage of the day three separate attacks have left fourteen people dead in iraq the first took place in the town of telomere as gunman killed three policemen at the local mayor's office two other officers were then shot they had a few kilometers down the road and a drive by shooting a few hours later two carloads of robbers with grenades and guns attacked a baghdad gold market and killed nine people they want to claim responsibility for the attacks but al qaeda is being blamed. for. the un special chief on torture has formally accused the us government of cruel and inhumane treatment towards u.s. army private bradley manning is being 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 whistleblower website wiki leaks the un investigation over fourteen months

concluded that manning was kept in solitary confinement for twenty three hours a day for nearly a year as conditions. but we're. sorry i can't finish that piece never mind we shall move on to the next world update. around one hundred people have been killed insults of their own and the latest wave of ethnic clashes and cattle raids official say several hundred people have been injured during the fighting with large numbers of animals stolen cattle raids and revenge attacks and kill thousands of people and since independence last year. the cold war may have ended decades ago but it seems little has changed in the minds of leading politicians on capitol hill as the us presidential race holds up some kind of dissipate to be stuck in the past the cold war rhetoric from days gone by he's got to looks at whether the reset between russia and the u.s. could be left crumble apart america's lack of respect for russian interests. called

warning long be over the leaders of russia and america looking for common ground under the banner of a reset in relations the cold war second and 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 world from russia's influence seems to echo president harry truman speech which arguably heralded at the start of the cold war the united. part three people who are resisting it that it gave been great outcry pressure one of the leading presidential contenders mitt romney went as far as states 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 dashing boogymen 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 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 the wider population among the most hardline anti russian politicians are those who also preached 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 the neo cons are having a particularly difficult time with use the idea to pick and no longer simply snap

their fingers and call the shots just ten years ago when united states that was possible that is you cannot very well be iraq working in new york on running the show in washington they didn't seem to me 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 big u.s. one of the biggest u.s. plans were a missile defense shield in europe washington still refuses to give moscow legal guarantees that it will target klesha president elect lives in europe which is said reset doesn't mean that russia has to give up its national interest or the unable to express its views on social international issues. jimmy little used in the research was never the extremist because it's a new trust it was a real will to reach an agreement which is allowed us to reach at least one street . sign an agreement on

a corporation in the field of peaceful nuclear energy with us blasting russia was able to join the world trade organization these are positive steps tangible results of the recent policy. most analysts agree for the reset to be truly successful both sides have to respect and consider it tried there's interest the cold war is long gone but it's alive and kicking in the minds of those who believe that one country has the exclusive right to make decisions for others and that's a given which appears to be a step in the minds of many u.s. politicians even to this day and then to check our reporting from washington r.t. . twenty five minutes past the hour in the russian capital business next daniel and china continues to dominate the headlines second time lucky bill yes many traders have pinned their hopes on the country driving global growth but news of a trade deficit of over thirty one billion dollars has investors jittery let's have a look at those markets now the dow is struggling thirteen hundred points on the

nasdaq three thousand on china and greece concerns traders are also waiting on key corporate first quarter results expected to be strong europe which has been topsy turvy all day finished in the black however investors are worried by spain's progress or lack of it on cutting levels as e.u. finance ministers examine latest figures today now most go have a pretty flat day or news foreign direct investment into russia jumped twenty one percent last year for capital outflows remain concerned for my sixteen most to stay above the sixteen hundred mark however this is the main movers on the my six now gold finished oil despite we could gold prices was also quite upbeat russia second largest bank v t v day of group began taking point back up your patience from shareholders one of the main factors for. based economy is the oil price which is down on monday mainly on concerns about slow economic growth in china which is the world's biggest energy consumer ok let's check on currencies now and the euro's

gaining against the dollar the greenback down you're also up on the ruble currency is reversing recent record games and they will be back in fifteen minutes on the headlines on its nazi. this respectable british gentleman's choice was. to leave jackets and old whiskey.

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