syrian opposition wants foreign military forces to stamp it out of its weapons are coming from abroad a new york u.n. security council meets to see if it can break the stalemate. afghan militants attack a government delegation visiting lot of the villages where u.s. over shot dead sixteen people most of them children. and greece holds its breath for rescue cash as if you're a zone financiers give it the green light and put a lot of you how to matters like illegal immigration take a toll on the indebted nation. a major bosler shaping up between two of the biggest . in the russian nestle thanks to all of those who join me in about twenty minutes

time for the tease of. one pm in the russian capital you're with our team the syrian national council has called for military intervention by arab and western states as well as the establishment of a no fly zone across the country the opposition has also decided to arm the rebels admitting some foreign governments were sending weapons all this comes as a un security council foreign ministers met to trying to break the deadlock in syria amid reports ongoing violence are just more important has more from new york . russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov did address the media following the meeting saying that the u.n. security council should be guided by the basic principles and interests of the syrian people he said there has to be an immediate end to the violence and

a cease fire is an absolute must but he said one point of view will not prevail within the security council there are house to be compromised there has to be some concessions made for all parties to agree on the text of a resolution the u.s. and european countries have been pushing for regime change in syria over the past least half a year russia and china have used their veto powers on two separate occasions because they said they would not support regime change in syria or for any other country for that matter they said syria should not be a repeat of what took place in libya this will offer when he was a addressing the media also said that when it came to resolution surrounding libya they were violated the language was undermined russia would not loud that to happen again but mr lover of said that russia is committed to supporting a resolution that would call for an immediate humanitarian assistance in to syria

but he rejected accusations that russia is the sole country that could solve the problem you have the u.s. and european allies trying to get text in any resolution that puts the blame on one side of the conflict in syria the assad government and that is not something that russia or china will support branford now reporting there now the u.s. and its allies are reportedly considering what they call all options in syria including military invasion was their job or foreign editor at the independent newspaper says if western states decide to intervene or will bring even more chaos . no it was very reluctant to get involved in syria not least because it's a hugely difficult conflict what's more difficult and of course the criticism that has come under after the libyan conflict. has been has been pretty harsh now i mean how many more people have to i will the question of military intervention is really really been raised. to see. a massacre in homes of the last

six weeks or so so i think it's still very much a moving room one that will probably is over in the coming weeks as the battle for syria has been going in the media almost as much as in the nation's in battle cities al-jazeera the arabic language shall come under attack for the way it was trying to shape opinion artist falsely or has more power to see in setting the news agenda setting the news agenda set by it's a channel once held it is a mouthpiece of freedom and change its past becoming an instrument of political pressure and propaganda less been ongoing since last april when you know of two thousand and eleven their senior people from the you know the head of the bureau and many other people quit because of the biased coverage and and out right into the government and dictating editorial policy over libya and now syria when he quit a year ago the head of the channel had abandoned a professional and objective of porting claiming it has become an operation room

for incitement and modernization and. if you believe that al-jazeera and other channels were not balanced in dealing with the events all are responsible for instance with respect to the events in syria in bahrain we started to invite guests from america who only criticize the regime in syria and support the regime in bahrain and persons who are just supplying nato intervention this is unacceptable. set up fifteen years ago al jazeera is owned by the state of qatar its english language spinoff launched in november two thousand and six three english channel when it was set up was always intended to be a much softer version of the arabic trammell of the channel i was largely said our troops. show very clearly they were critical program stumpage dreher a bit o.

jazeera but it seems now both are working in tandem the channel is seen as widely influential in the middle east watched by some sixty million people it's been boid by the recent arab uprisings but critics claim it's increasingly become a tool of qatari and western policies and views it's very disturbing to hear oh al-jazeera is now becoming this regional player for a foreign policy in a way that some would argue the b.b.c. and others have been for decades the real jazeera arabic has covered the story of syria is completely one sided. the charge backed up by another al-jazeera staffer who complain fly e-mail that his boss has refused to publish pictures of armed fighters clashing with the syrian army the formal dizzier bay would correspond to the channel also ignored a referendum on a new constitution in syria as for libya a leaked report suggests that some of the channels coverage and set up some tripoli

were fake. last year the channel was miraculously granted access to the american media market after initially being banned in the united states word is that american officials saw how influential al-jazeera was in covering the arab spring but it's raised a number of our brows and given weight to those critics who say the channel's changed its tune pigging the question with al-jazeera as a once revolutionary voice has been drowned out by and now to noise the agenda of its sponsors r.t. contacted al-jazeera as head office but the channel was unavailable for comment policy r.t. telep with. well coming up on r t paying for debts greece secures a debt write off and bailout backing from the euro zone but is left to fight problems like illegal immigration alone plus. now militants have attacked government delegation visiting lot of two afghan

villages where a u.s. soldier allegedly went on a shooting rampage the taliban earlier vowed revenge for the killing of sixteen civilians on sunday u.s. apologized but said troops won't leave sooner than planned but the patience of the afghan people may well be running out as artie's ganesh account reports. sixteen innocent afghan villagers slaughtered in cold blood nine of them children u.s. officials are growing out of their way to present the american surgeon who apparently committed the massacre as just one bad apple. this incident is georgia can shocking and does not represent the exceptional character of our military and the respect that the united states has for the people of afghanistan this is not who we are in no way does he represent the. ethics and morality of the american serviceman and service woman and i think afghans understand that but afghans don't

seem to be buying that at all. the rage and humiliation felt by afghan people appear to be way beyond what apologies can make up for they've heard them all before in the last few months all too often and each one very similar to the next just weeks ago the white house apologized for the burning of the copies of the koran by u.s. troops an incident that triggered a surge of violence this was a deeply unfortunate incident that does not reflect the great respect our military has for the religious practices of the afghan people and weeks before that in january apologies again over footage showing u.s. marines urinating on dead afghans but he's actions do not represent the values of the vast majority of coalition forces some of the nations on really contrary to what u.s. officials say some analysts believe that those incidents are symptomatic of how the military operation in afghanistan works it is increasing the case that this is looking like. a brutal occupation which is killing

a large number of afghans where afghans film cells humiliated insulted and where incidents like this will be regarded as symbolic of exactly what is wrong with the american occupation it is an absolutely cynical operation to say that they don't keep conflict in afghanistan for another three years how many more people will die how many more incidents like this the only solution to this is to bring the troops out and then for these for these governments this top winds of a name in countries where they have absolutely no rights winds of copious apologies handed out by the administration don't seem. even to appease war critics back home let alone the afghan people but what about the whole idea of invading a country in occupying a country and this during their country creating hundreds of thousands of refugees and suffering this it ever get to a point where apologizing about the qur'an is rather minor and some of the other

problems that we have ever created the taliban has that out it will take revenge and analysts expect a fresh surge of violence children shot in the head we know slaughtered it's incidents like the latest soldier's rampage in afghanistan that extremists of all kinds used to a truck new people to their ranks those new recruits go out to kill not even the most heartfelt apologies can change the minds of people dead set on revenge it becomes a vicious circle that breeds even more danger spreading far beyond the borders of afghanistan i'm going to shift our reporting from washington archy hundreds of students have gathered for a while in eastern afghanistan calling us soldiers murderous shooting spree the incidents could have dire consequences for the u.s. mission in afghanistan says author. but in some ways. it has greater potential for damage in afghanistan because of the way that people are not

necessarily linked into their own information systems they're not going to be looked find out about this on their own so they're going to hear it through a strange sort of tribal and local village rumor mill and when they go to the mosque on friday and hear from the most who knows what kind of story this is going to be spun into so it could take. just monstrous proportions and it's just going to really carry a wrench in the system and i think it already be at the hands of the americans had a lot of trouble hard doing over the fine details of which are all and even handing over control of the prisons and things like this so i'm not sure what this will what kind of pressure this will bring on the cars but it certainly puts the americans on the back foot in terms of what they're going to be able to ask for and expect from their allies and if they have to spend a whole lot of time dealing with the fallout and putting out little fires and dealing with riots they're not going to be able to do the other things that are really the crux of the mission. more coverage of developments in afghanistan is available on our website r.t. dot com there's plenty of other issues to grab your attention there as well. along

please a new weapon that could cook the ground the american military unveils its new people dispersing microwave cannon. and russian legendary boss of the year goes on line anyone finding ticket prices a bit steve now watch the pierrots list live on the venue's very own you tube channel. much needed rescue cash will finally start flowing into grieco force later this month as the eurozone group clears away for a one hundred thirty billion euro bailout however international monetary fund is yet to confirm its part in a deal to spy greece agreeing a bond swap deal with private creditors once a year your official even suggested it still could fall more than expected but your m.p. paul that all beliefs southern european countries should just get out of the currency union. recent serious trouble i mean you just got to look at the amount of people who are out on the streets demonstrating at the moment suicide rates are up the

minimum wage has been cause there's not homelessness in the country at the moment all the european union is doing. is it's encouraging the cradle of civilization to head towards revolution because that's what will happen if we continue with these austerity measures there's only one and so nothing comes out of the all together gets back into the truck or the value surface on exchange rates at a competitive level gets its exports moving the idea that greece spain portugal and all these meds draining countries could exist within the same eurozone as a country like germany was completely farcical from the start. we said it we believe this it was impossible logical way so the only way that this thing can move on is for probably the north the country form their own eurozone for the countries to fall out altogether to go back on their own cotton feet but i think what you will see is heaven forbid you might see a shift of the far right if they continue down this line because people are very unhappy indeed that i'm not just one happy about. problems but also unhappy about

opens all immigration policies which seem to be promoted by the european union so i think you will probably see your rates across northern europe in particular the boards in the european elections in two thousand and fourteen and i just don't know what's going to happen in the southern european states because maybe in greece it's going to be on that maybe you were in the revolution because people are very very unhappy and the. right wing voices have already started sounding from the top in france as president sarkozy builds he's reelection on and seven gratian rather and he has threatened a lot of freeboard a treaty if he doesn't fight the problem but it's impoverished greece that bearing the brunt of the illegal immigrant inflow he's jacob greece now reports. illegal immigration is an issue facing the whole of the e.u. but in the midst of a reelection campaign french president nicolas sarkozy has singles out as one france can't tolerate a it has been know to climb in the number of refugees knocking on your store

with many originating from war torn countries where nato members have been embroiled. is an influx that is acutely felt in debt stricken greece. and from afghanistan the numbers have increased in reality it's one of the nationalities we have the biggest problem with there are a lot of people who are trying to cross the turkish borders to come into greece and there was a border stretches one hundred twenty miles most of it guarded by the everest river . through this channel fifty five thousand people reach greece in two thousand and ten alone a sizeable chunk of the estimated one hundred thousand seeking refuge in the country every year in desperation greek authorities called on european border guards to help police the area but now they're searching for more concrete alternative erecting six miles of razor wire along the shore slam border. it's very

cost effective because two hundred people cross the border every day even if we could have of them that means a lot for a country plagued by financial problems and we shouldn't forget there greece's european territory. as the country's economic woes worsen i still receive a daily influx of new people to the country to make matters worse several post solution this to a european problem but one that has little e.u. backing. the european commission has ruled against the fence irregardless of where its flags flying they join a number of domestic human rights groups who despite creases position as a gateway to europe stand opposed to the building of a fence stop their bros wall is one such organization we spoke to a member who wished to remain anonymous. yes we're playing we don't leave dispense as inhumane there's a history showing there where fences such as this and struck that the number of

those kills trying to cross the border increases for example that's what happened on the us mexico border. but with greece on its knees few in the country seem willing to take to the streets to denounce the wall and even among those who have deplored its implementation the greater photo appears to be hal the e.u. as a body tackled illegal immigration. doubling through a game and by itself which says that whoever comes into your game is going to say but put pantry where he first or she first entered the european union where now is that the your last race which is unfair for an entry point like race based aid agency has long cared for refugees in athens but it needs economic woes they now have to stretch for sources to treat greeks as well as a quality of life is tumbling around them greek authorities are placing great faith in bricks mortar and razor wire but many conclude it is a profit they're worth stand up to considerable strains with the real building

blocks to a solution they reasoned as a great a share of greece's heavy burden degrees r.t. athens. russia's planning to build research stations are marked before moving on to other planets in the solar system and they are the ideas guiding the nation space program in the years to come here oliver joins me live with more details on their the certainly sounds like an ambitious project russia planning to kill were no unscarred before it tell us more well yes because most of the russian space agency outlining their strategy until twenty thirty so for the next eighteen years one of the key missions they want to put into place is the setting up of a network of research centers on the surface of mars now these will be old months research centers but hopefully the data that they they collect in can send back to to the to earth will one day be able to lead towards

a manned settlement on the surface of the red planet so this is really a further step towards my own kind trying to set up some kind of base on another world. well and of course we remember our mars five hundred prided a tire group of people i simulate a flight to use a red planet so tell us how important that experience what's well at the end of the mars five hundred project we heard from the organizers who said this is really a first step towards the first step you know talking about the missions that cause most want to carry out it's really getting more serious and weaving towards some serious. exploration now we're hearing that there will be unmanned missions to both venus and jupiter and that will bring back information about those planets that will hopefully as they pave the way towards manned missions heading off and people going off and looking. at these are our neighbors in the solar system really what

we also are going to see of course monday missions of the the missions that get everybody more excited than sending robots an unmanned flight up there we are going to see a monday mission to the moon now it's sixty years or so since neil armstrong and buzz aldrin set foot on the moon for the first time however we haven't really come back to our nearest neighbor in the cause of course for many years russia wants to send a month mission to the moon in order to try and what further up and standing about what makes up the moon and what the moon actually is and perhaps whether we could settle on the moon i'll certainly be here another giant leap for mankind ever what about our current missions i mean how do they fit into this new strategy well one of the strategies aims is to decommission the international space station now the i assess has been on the go since the late ninety's and it has funding but until

twenty twenty we are hearing that you know they could run on slightly longer than twenty twenty perhaps even to twenty twenty eight carrying out the fantastic scientific experiments and exploration it has been doing for all those years. however well it is going to be an old piece of kit really buying up time and it will be replacing now what they're looking to replace it with of course is brand new technology and one of the the new plans that are is in place is to build a next generation of spacecraft unmanned spacecraft that will be able to travel further and retrieve more data than anything we have at the moment now all of this of course costs money on drugs cause more say that they have the cash they have the budget to be able to do it in fact under the new plan for the next eighteen years we're going to see around six and a half billion u.s. dollars plowed into space exploration here in russia and what we're also going to see is the development of a brand new cosmodrome as it stands at the moment soyuz rockets that go up to the

international space station launched in baikonur that's actually the same large part is where eureka garren blasted off to be the first man in the space all those years ago however baikonur as great as it is it's time to look a little bit tired they will see a new cosmodrome built in the far east of russia so those next generation rockets those next generation spacecraft will be launched from the next generation of cosmodrome as well are sounds fantastic to me and although it's a very ambitious plan there are still a lot of work i had for everyone there at work here all right thanks very much indeed for bringing us this up. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world israel and palestinian militants have agreed a ceasefire after four days of deadly violence and was mediated by highroad least twenty five gazans have been killed and thirty five israelis wounded by a rocket attacks the fighting was sparked by israel killing a high ranking palestinian militant leader last week gaza hamas leaders kept out of

this fighting which involved militant splinter groups that means a truce between israel and hamas is likely to be affected. and a bomb has been killed in a blaze at a mosque near brussels the building was attacked with a petrol bomb and the man died of smoke inhalation trying to extinguish the flames one other person was injured belgian police say the suspect wilting a knife an axe said the mosque and fire has been taken into custody. all right crossing out to the world of business with katie cave what's happening well what's happening marino there's a major paso going on it's shaping up between two of the biggest billionaire tai canes in the russian matter the sector. of the country's tenth richest person has quit as chairman of the world's top alum a new producer. now he disagrees with the management policy which he says has

bought the company into a deep crisis. resells third largest shareholder his relationship with its main i don't know that he has is far from friendly the tycoons have long been fast lane over control of another company mining giant northeast nichole trading in russo was suspended in hong kong after opened one point three percent low on tuesday following that news now for more details a more insight on the topic i'm now joined by vladimir head of ekti research i hate test b c hello sir can you hear me all right. oh i like that ok first of all why do you think the fact has has quit of chairman over so why do you think you. can you hear me all right i'm asking you why you yeah i can hear oh yeah it has

quit as has roussel why do you think that he's quit. why i think here's a here's a resignation is something that has not carbon and it's. because there will be history and you also of the recent public statements including if yourself as well as another major shareholder of rosol mikhail prokhorov or were there slowly hoffner all snake all sleep basically. wrecks oberg both fear of the seal of the real cycles the birth of a company power or the control. shareholder i learned that if i ask a resistor and i think there that there's a real court order for there to serve resignation. i can now he has said that the company is a in a deep crisis now do you go along with that considering that the company's managed to restructure their debts up until now he just saying that sort of throwing his russians out of the power as it were is that the case. i'm sorry move over clear believes of your agree with back so bad that the company

even deep crisis as he says would you go along with that. world are i don't think about so very silverstein of the company isn't the crisis karmas serve as a relief from to the extent that he would serve the higher it's kind of financial leverage burb the fibers so mostly a financial lever of stock in the russian metals and mining space is not getting used for see as something helen mirren that has been known for over the public in over the past several years however the fact that one of the insiders basically raised the stakes in the shareholder dispute and now because of the crisis in such a public statement but something there for you that comes as a revelation i can watch the ng game to all of this do you think that he will sell out of resell. well selling our result comes up as a national opportunity has wrestled wrote himself or speaking about it a few months ago i think therefore where his resignation is it is or should be

considered as a first and foremost as a public statement rather than sort of appropriate there is there in the head of the current wholesale but i think i think baffling given for this agreement with the management over the course of the strategy and tactics over sol i think that so lightly called the fist words of the is now fire. ok thank you very much indeed for that that fascinates you called head of actually research and he just basically thank you thank prime much indeed for your time today sir. i'm not so far from the business team that just is now i'll be back in about fifty five minutes with another update on those markets. will be over.