the u.n. forges ahead in its efforts to mediate peace in syria with russia backing the push for a peaceful solution. but the syrian opposition admits. some can see the calls for military intervention. gunmen to attack an afghan government delegation visiting the site where sixteen civilians were killed by a rampaging u.s. soldier leaving one dead and three injured. and as the e.u. approved the second bailout for greece to save off bankruptcy we report on how the

nonstop flow of regulations from brussels is forcing firms out of business while the eurozone crisis rages on. world wide news around the clock this is our. life in moscow as the international community remains a blogger heads over a solution to syria russia is bolstering its push for peace moscow wants a cease fire without preconditions and is endorsing the joint u.n. arab league peace effort led by kofi annan let's get the details now live from marty's paula. good to see you paula with the syrian conflict still raging a year after it flared up in the first place but how efforts are going to end the bloodshed. well we continue to hear reports of spiraling violence with new reports of dozens of people being killed on both sides we're hearing from the

leaders of the syrian opposition saying that they have been promised weapons from abroad but they are still calling for a political and diplomatic solution not so far all attempts to reach some kind of cease fire have proven to amount to nothing on monday yesterday the united nations security council minutes and their moscow expressed grave concern and say that it was of most importance that a cease fire is reached immediately now the former head of the united nations kofi annan was in syria over this weekend where he did meet with the syrian president bashar assad to try and map out some kind of agreement and we've heard from the man that he has reportedly put forward concrete proposals on the table now we heard from inside that he would respond within forty eight hours and the latest word from the kinetic sources there is that death was will come sometime today tuesday at the same time the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov has urged and that this

proposal lead to something he has scored for the bloodshed to end immediately but he has said that he needs to be a pragmatic approach it's nicholas and the people who are fighting in syria against the government. one of them you have this free syrian army there are reports that some groups of go-go they are and they do have arms and vehicles so if the past is to say that acid is responsible for everything before he was just like a baby sitter's maybe it's something which catches the eye of the people who watch t.v. but if. this if your ego is not a goal treating such public opinion but is a boat for stopping the bloodshed then we must be a bit more privileged. syria has become the flashpoint of conflict in the arab world but it's it's also the subject of an information war how do we know exactly

what's happening on the ground when so few journalists from around the world are able to get him. but that is exactly the problem the so-called information war is really as much a war as the physical violence that we witnessing happening there is a largely a media blackout in syria which means it's very difficult to know what's happening very difficult to confirm sources and particularly on the issue of sources a lot of the mainstream media reports and quotes and concerns sources so it's very difficult to know exactly what this means and who these sources are we also constantly hear these conflicts in reports about what is happening for example the leadership says that there is no crackdown they say that they are fighting sovereign funded terrorism but then on the other side we hear of our ports of massacres and that is coming from the opposition and most of the reports that are coming out of syria are and verified and therefore they very difficult to confirm

we've been following up report with the whole office with three members of the they would authors of al-jazeera who have resigned over what they say is unfair and biased and propaganda miracles and particularly over events in syria and this is just one example that shows just how big and how difficult to manage this information who is. this is the setting the news agenda setting the news agenda for being fit bias a channel once held it is a mouthpiece of freedom and change is fast becoming an instrument of political pressure and propaganda press 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 outright into the government and declaring a rhetorical policy over libya and now syria when he quit a year ago the head of the bureau said the channel had abandoned professional and

object to the porting claiming it has become an operation room for insight meant and mobilization but at his you had to believe that al-jazeera and other channels were not balanced in dealing with the dance all are responsible for instance with respect to the events in syria and bahrain we started to invite guests from america who only criticize the regime in syria and support the regime in bahrain and persons who justify nato intervention this is unacceptable. set up fifteen years ago al-jazeera is owned by the state of qatar it's english language spinoff launched in november two thousand and six three english channel when it was set up was always simpler and it would be a much softer version of the arabic trammell of the channel i think was largely set out to appease the west only its coverage share a show that very clearly there were few critical program stumpage where people just

zero 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 that critics claim it's increasingly become a tool of qatari and western policies and feel it's very disturbing to hear al-jazeera is now because. this regional player for a foreign policy in a way that some would argue say the b.b.c. and others have dreamed for decades the way of his or her because covered the story of syria is completely one sided. a charge backed up by another al-jazeera staffer who complained by email that his bosses refused to publish pictures of armed fighters clashing with a syrian army the formal jazeera beirut correspondent civil channel three ignored if the ryndam a new constitution in syria as for libya leaked reports suggest that some of the channels coverage and sit ups from tripoli were fake last year the channel was

miraculously granted access to the american media market after initially been 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 channels changed it's too big in the question whether al-jazeera is a ones with aleutian every voice has been drowned out by and now the noise the agenda of its sponsors r.t. contacted al-jazeera as head office but the channel was unavailable for comment and policy r.t. tell of probably us administration and its allies are reportedly still considering military intervention in syria as they ponder all options. foreign editor of the independent newspaper in london says that's currently a last resort however given the past experience. it was very. involved in sort of 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 you know i mean how many more people have to die will there be question of military intervention is only really been raised. the siege of. a massacre in homs sort of the last sort of six weeks or so so i think it's still very much a moving moving issue and one that will probably result in the coming weeks. now ten minutes past the hour here in the russian capital this is are still to come your way in the program making it space travel. missions to the moon to venus to jupiter and to mars all parts over. plans by the russian space agency for the next eighteen years. peter all over in a few minutes here for now though in afghanistan one person has died and three others have been hurt by the afghan government delegation came under attack by this while it was traveling to the villages where a u.s.

soldier shot dead sixteen civilians on sunday the u.s. has apologized for the incident and the our named thirty eight year old staff sergeant is under arrest being held at an undisclosed location the shooting has severely strained relations between afghans and foreign forces with american rallies reflecting widespread fury meanwhile u.s. president barack obama is to hold talks on afghanistan with british prime minister david cameron focusing on the timetable for pulling out alliance troops but as artist guy nature can reports the patience of the afghan people may well be running out. sixteen innocent afghan villagers slaughtered in cold blood nine of them children u.s. officials are going out of their way to present the american surgeon to apparently committed the massacre is just one bad apple. this incident is tragic and 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 and 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 these actions do not represent the values of the vast majority of coalition forces and the nation's honorably 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 increasingly the case that this is looking like. a brutal occupation which is killing a large number of afghans were afghans film selves humiliated insulted and what incidents like this will be regarded as a symbolic of exactly what is wrong with the american occupation it is an absolutely cynical operation to say that they don't think they're in afghanistan for another free how many more people will die how many more instances like this the only solution to this is to bring the troops now and then for these for these governments the stockmen's of a name in countries where they have absolutely no rights when the very copious apologies handed out by the administration don't see me. even to appease war critics back home let alone the afghan people but what about the whole idea of in

aiding a country and occupying a country and disturbing 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 to some of the other problems that we have to have created the taliban has that it will take revenge and analysts expect a fresh surge of violence children shot in the head women 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 that 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. and in the meantime our students have covered for a rally in eastern afghanistan following the u.s. soldiers massacre of sixteen people in the killings that could have dire

consequences for the u.s. mission in afghanistan that's according to author neal schon. 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 look 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 the most who knows what kind of story this is going to be spun into so it could take. just monstrous proportions it's just going to really threw a wrench in the system i think they're already answered the americans have a lot of trouble arguing over the fine details of with or all or 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. and watching on t.v. now the e.u. has given the green light for one hundred thirty billion euro to dig out for greece saving it from economic death by debt for the time being a crisis hit spain is now in focus however office saying it can't meet austerity targets set by the e.u. u.k. independence party european parliament leader paul not whole says it's time that southern european countries set sail and. recent serious trouble i mean you just have to look at the amount of people who are from the streets demonstrating of the moment suicide rates are up there with minimal wages being caught there's not homelessness in the country at the moment and 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 answer not the all together it's not going to the track. the values are thrown exchange rate at a combatant of level get this exports moving the idea that greece spain portugal and all these mediterranean countries can exist within the same eurozone as a country like germany was completely facile from the start. we said it we predicted this it was impossible atika where so the only way that this thing can move on is for probably the north or country from their own eurozone and for the countries to fall out altogether to go back home to their own countries and in a southern a year of the euro dream is fast becoming a nightmare in spain there's been huge protests against austerity cuts and new labor laws which opponents able make it easier for workers to be fired in a country where unemployment rates are among europe's highest but the financial crisis isn't stopping new regulations incoming from brussels ses are similar.

here is much ado about these federal creatures. on january first of this year the european commission's welfare of laying hands directive that the use of battery cages like this and now requires at least seven hundred fifty square centimeters of cage per head. and. they look at the amount of investment to make they will say no thank you i will not work the rest of my life to create a bank. so and it's in the medium and small but still completely. ignored by the bigger ones another welcome scenario and already crisis hit e.u. countries but michelle is one of the lucky ones he shelled out more than three million euros to build the new cages i pod which was not was. not something i was thinking around

ever personally. i don't. think i think. we also now have to be trained to lay eggs in a special nest which isn't exactly easy for those cases like this because it looked really bringing up more of. the issues extend beyond these stages manufacturers in france for example have called for urgent help after several farms were forced to stop egg production for failing to comply with the rules and that drove prices up by as much as seventy five percent in just four months in belgium union say prices of more than tripled since january a level not see this is a two thousand and three avian flu outbreak and while there's all the ruckus about having to follow new rules in fact farms of thirteen countries including belgium

and france still haven't complied the e.u. commission has launched infringement procedures against the states which could go all the way to the european court of justice if needed to fight that we have taken the procedure is a clear sign to the commission will not back down in the meantime these cheaper illegal eggs could still make their way on to the market much to the dismay of more of b.d.s. member states in our country they spend four hundred million pounds of road money getting their doctrines. students legal and of course they've been very very worried when they look across the english channel and they see both the good excuse me the good student the old illegal thanks to compete with media calls but coming up that is what british producers are so obsessed with the caves to disobey the law . a law that has ruffled them more than a few feathers in the industry but at least some can go about their business slightly happier i guess or so you are to brussels.

but it's not just hard pressed european workers and businesses that are feeling the pinch a few others with rather a lot of cash to lose are also feeling the pain that's when i'm off my business tesco dimitry over to. somebody right now what we're seeing here is a conflict between the two richest men in russia the big picture but in the next thirty pasta that's embedded has resigned from his position as chairman of the world's largest element and producer. over a conflict of how to manage a prized asset businesses and that is a stake in the normal snicko nickel mine so it's quite complicated will tell you all about that in around five minutes time. it's not so you have to be trained. to boldly go where no one has gone before that's part of the grand plan for the future of rushers space program which is just being unveiled it includes

a research stations on mars an exploration of other planets in the solar system with all the details now if you're out of. ross cosmos the russian space agency laying out bare their plan for the next eighteen years will take us up to the a twenty thirty now we're going to see unmanned and unmanned network of research facilities on the surface of mars now they will be there to to gather as much information as they can and send it back to here to earth hopefully being one of the first steps towards. mankind being able to set up a base on mars another will also be missions to venus and to jupiter and we're hearing that we could see a monday mission to the moon well as far as the current missions go what we're going to see is the international space station scrapped the s.s. has been on the go since the late ninety's it has funding up until twenty twenty however well it is going to be an old piece of kit really by

a lot of time and it will lead pair replacing now what they're looking to replace it with of course is brand new technology 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 and roscoe's 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 launch pad is where eureka garren blasted off to be the first man in space all those years ago however they could or it's 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 of

rockets those next generation spacecraft will be launched in the next generation of course. right there would be voice got a lot more stories for you on our website r t top called let's have a look at a few of them right now what is standing by for example obama has a ratings go up in flames reports show him losing people support over gas prices also on our website all to dot com cheese overall the cheese doth no photos are allowed. the use of cameras and video equipment in the cities metro system find out more on that. before we get to dmitri with the markets for now let's get to b.r.t.

world some other global news in brief for you this hour an american drone attack has killed six suspected militants in pakistan just along the afghan border but the pakistani army has been trying to clear the region of militants who still have bases in the area american drone strikes aimed at local terrorists began in two thousand and eight would have killed many civilians as well as criticizes remote controlled air attacks publicly but the government is believed to have supported the covert cia run program. israel and palestinian militants have agreed to a ceasefire after four days of deadly clashes the deal was mediated by egyptian intelligence officers after separate negotiations with each side at least twenty five palestinians have been killed and thirty five is ready to strike standing militant rocket attacks since friday but the violence was triggered by the israeli assassination of a palestinian resistance leader. according what and has sentenced

a former special forces soldier to over six thousand years in prison over a massacre during the country's civil war mental of your soul is found guilty of killing two hundred one people and throwing their bodies down a well in the village of in one thousand nine hundred two was given thirty years for each killing and thirty years for crimes against humanity after being extradited from california guatemala's civil war claimed almost two hundred thousand lives before ending in one thousand nine hundred six with most of the killings by the u.s. backed army. to atlanta airport in the u.s. now where plane maintenance workers have or had a rather bad start of the day. five am end engine team test ended up with a rather little too much throttle. seemed to send the empty passenger plane ending up where it had should have not have ended up no one was hurt unlike the pride of

the ground crew. all right top of the business update dimitri i see your keeping track of all the latest market activity for us so what's all this about of battle going on there was a conflict thinking a whole new level between some of russia's two richest men and look the. scares a little of actually about it has announced that he's resigning from the post of chairman of russia's largest producer roussel now he says this is due to a conflict of. interest between him and the management which has according to him led to the company's going into a crisis while the company in a press release has said the victim but it has for quite some time more than a year in ignoring his his obligations as chairman of the company already and there's a meeting coming up on the sixteenth of march where they will already be deciding on a new manager but let's listen to from h.s.b.c.

listen to what he has to say about the reasons behind this conflict the prime reason for his resignation is he has basically just come pound with a management refusal to sell the real snake oil state back to the company with the whole first made a very significant premium for the spot market and that of course the sale would allow the company had to deliver significantly and allow the company to basically so continue financing of its main the most important is asian project he has spoken publicly some time ago indicating his ward mr selig is potentially it will sell if you stay. but you know whether he will be definitely willing to sell it or not that's something we have to wait for. so yes indeed it seems there are several reasons between the before this for this conflict between the big and likely to pass one of them being the fate of nickel steak and now the big question on the market is will. be actually selling his stake in roussel that could be a very interesting of course we're seeing right now is that the markets are quite

positive the r.t.s. is barely in the black the my six is up by one third of a percent rw sow's shares on the stock exchange before and by as much as three and a half percent and they were suspended in hong kong on request from the company a second ago was moving in nice right now these are financial shares mainly as burbank up one percent bt b. also one of the biggest gainers energy shares also feeling well with gas from up a third of a percent in lukoil of more than one percent on the news that it is planning to expand its spending on iraqi oil fields to two billion dollars in loans. and the picture is pretty much similar in europe are saying that puts you on the back serving quite positive of the e.u. ministers approved measures to provide greece with another wave of bailout money one hundred seventeen billion euro. moving on to will and it is also looking

positive again around half a dollar a barrel but we have heard statements from us several ministers from the opec notably ecuador's oil minister saying that it will prices are quote a bit on the high side and that's ahead of a meeting with customers finally to currencies let's take a look at what's happening there and the euro is increasing its presence versus the dollar while the ruble is right now strengthening against the greenback and the united currency. that's the way the markets look at this hour we will be back in around fifty five minutes time to bring it up.