and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought. i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. but you were no four years ahead in its efforts to mediate peace in syria with russia backing the push for a peaceful solution. that the syrian opposition can spin on it from abroad while some continue the calls for military intervention. gunmen attack an afghani government delegation visiting the site where sixteen civilians were killed by a rampaging u.s. soldier leaving one dead and at least three injured. and does the e.u. approves the second bailout to greece to stave off bankruptcy we report on how the nonstop flow of regulations from brussels is forcing firms out of business by the

eurozone crisis rages on. stock trading the world's largest producer has been halted in hong kong as victim of acts of god resigns as the company's chairman more on this in business or so you can see. it is now we're just after five pm here in moscow this is the with me rory seem show you it's good to have you with us today as the international community remains at loggerheads over a solution to syria russia is both during his push for peace and also wants a ceasefire without preconditions and is indorsing the joins us in our oblique peace effort led by kofi annan with the latest now on these policy. 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 the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov has expressed his concern that these weapons good end up in the hands of al qaeda is also said that calls from qatar for some kind of military intervention. 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 met and there moscow expressed grave concern and said that it was of most importance that a cease fire is reached immediately now the former head of the united nations coffee anon 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 magic sources there is a better sponsor will come sometime today tuesday at the same time the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov has urged that this proposal in lead to something he has called 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 the are and they do have in their lives so. if the cost is to say that acid is responsible for everything there for him was just ok this it is maybe it's something which caters to the eye of the people who watch t.v. but if. this if your ego is not a boat or treating such public opinion but is

a boat stopping the bloodshed then we must be a bit more privilege there is 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 in mainstream media reports and quotes and concerns also so it's very difficult to know exactly what this means and who the 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 stalin funded terrorism but then on the other side we hear of of course of massacres and that is coming from the opposition we've been following up of course with the whole office with three members of the they removed office of al-jazeera who have resigned over what they say is unfair and biased and propaganda live reporting particularly over events in so in this is just one example that shows just how big and how difficult to manage this information war is how does iraqis setting the

news agenda setting the news agenda or being the state buyers 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 or whether their senior people from the you know the head of the bureau with many other people because of the biased coverage and out right into the government dictating editorial policy over libya and now syria when he quit a year ago the head of the bureau said the channel had abandoned professional and objective reporting claiming it has become an operation room what you fight meant and mobilization of the other i believe that al-jazeera and other channels were not balanced in dealing with the events all are responsible for instance with the. spec's 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 justify nato intervention this is unacceptable. set up fifteen years ago al-jazeera is owned by the state of qatar its emission language spinoff launched in november two thousand and six three english channel when it was said was always intended to be a much softer version of the arabic trammell and the channel i think was largely said. only its coverage share shoebat very clearly there were a few critical programs compared to are a bit old as iraq 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 khatami and western policies and. it's very disturbing to hear al-jazeera

is now becoming this regional player for a foreign policy in a way that some would argue police say the b.b.c. and others have been for decades the way others are arabic is covered the story of syria is completely one sided. a chargeback type i'm not a al-jazeera staffer who complained via e-mail that his bosses refused to publish pictures of armed fighters clashing with the syrian army the full knowledge is eva bay would correspond and civic channel also ignored it if wyndham on 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 brands and given weight to those critics who say the channel's changed its tune begging the question with al-jazeera is

a once we've illusionary voice has been drowned out by and now did noise the agenda of its sponsors r.t. contacted al-jazeera as head off as the channel was unavailable for comment policy r t tel aviv and other u.s. administration and its allies are reportedly still considering military intervention in syria as they are all options. foreign editor of the independent newspaper and otherness says that's currently a last resort however given past experience. it was very reluctant to get involved in syria not least because it's a hugely difficult conflict 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 well you know the question of military intervention has only really been raised since the see. the massacre in homs sort of the last six weeks or so so i think it's still very much

a moving room one that will probably is over itself in the coming weeks. live from moscow this is still to come your way later this hour i thought of making space travel. missions to the moon to venus to jupiter on to mars all part of the vicious plans by the russian space agency for the next eighteen years. ten minutes past the hour here in moscow in afghanistan one person has died and three others have been hurt when an afghan government delegation came under attack while 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 unnamed thirty eight year old staff sergeant is under arrest held undisclosed location the shooting has severely strained relations between afghans and foreign forces with and see american rallies reflecting widespread fury meanwhile the u.s.

president barack obama is to hold talks in afghanistan with the british prime minister david cameron focusing on the timetable for pulling out alliance troops result he's going to kind of 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 who apparently committed the massacre as 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 servicewoman 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 these actions do not represent the values of the vast majority of coalition forces who serve their nations on ripley 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 cells humiliated insulted and when

instances like this will be regarded as simple the exactly what is wrong with the american not it is an absolutely cynical operation to say that they can't complete in afghanistan for another three years how many more people will die how many more instances like this the only solution to this is to bring the troops out a month for these for these governments to stop winds of a name in countries where they have absolutely no rights went over copious apologise handed out by the administration don't seem to. to appease war critics back home let alone the afghan people but what about the whole idea of been aiding a country 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 now 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 soldiers rampage in afghanistan that it's very midst of all kinds used to it 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 greaves even more danger spreading far beyond the borders of afghanistan i'm going to shift our reporting from washington r.t. . latest killings could have consequences for the u.s. led mission in afghanistan according to journalist and author neil shy. in some ways it's 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 able to 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 it's going to really threw a wrench in the system and i think that already be appears to be americans have a lot of trouble arguing over the fine details of which are all but even handing over control of the prisoners and things like this so i'm not sure what this will be 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. you without seeing about ten minutes time is dmitri with the markets but for now and the e.u. has given the green light for the one hundred thirty billion euro geek out for greece saving it from economic death by debt for the time being

a crisis in spain though is now in focus after saying it can't meet austerity targets set by the e.u. u.k. independence party european parliament member poll not all says it's time that the southern european countries simply set sail. this is in 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 to what minimum wage has been cause there's not homelessness in the country at the moment all the european union is doing and always on the sly 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 man so nothing comes out of the all together gets back home for the track. the values are thrown exchange rate out of compassion for the level get its exports moving the idea that greece spain portugal and all these mediterranean countries could exist within the same eurozone as a country like germany was completely facile from the start and reset it we predicted this it was impossible atika where for the only way that this thing can

move on is for probably the norther countries to form their own euro zone and for the fall out altogether to go back on their own couldn't these. in southern europe the euro dream is fast becoming a nightmare in spain their main huge protests against austerity cuts new labor noise which opponents say will make it easier for workers to be fired but in a country where unemployment rates are among europe's highest but the financial crisis isn't stopping in new regulations and coming from brussels as our correspondent as our savior reports. here is much ado about these feather creatures . and jan first of disappear the european commission's welfare of laying hands directive that the use of battery cages like this and now the choir's at least seven hundred fifty square centimeters of cage per head. and. they look at is the amount of investment to make they will say no thank you i will

not work this through my life to pay the bank. so and it's medium small but still completely. was akes. going to be taken over by the bigger ones and unwelcome scenario and already crisis hit e.u. countries but it shows one of the lucky ones he shelled out more than three million euros to build the new cages i put. these. was. knocked. down never see. that. actually i think. they also now have to be trained to lay eggs in a special nest which isn't exactly easy or the ok for her this was. really bringing

a lot more of. the issues extend beyond the stages cake 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 three avian flu outbreak and while there's all the ruckus about having to follow new rules in fact farms in 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 the fact that we have taken the procedure is a clear sign that 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 the d.n.c. member states in our country they spend four hundred million pounds of road money

getting there yet she. 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 studios in the group thanks to compete with live with media calls but coming up that is what british producers are so obsessed with could be used to dissipate a little i award that has ruffled them more than a few feathers in the industry but at least some can go about their business slightly happier i. r t brussels. just turning twenty minutes past the hour here in the russian capital today there were lots more stories for you on our website dot com some of the funny by few there right now include obama's ratings going up in flames as latest reports show him losing people support over gas prices but also on our website are teed up called cheese or rather cheesed off

a no photos allowed as your thought. ban the use of cameras and video right in the cities metro system find out why. it is i could have you with us here in r.t. that supposedly go where no one has gone before that's part of the ground to plan for the future of russia's space program which is just being unveiled includes research stations on mars exploration of other planets in our solar system but with . the russian space agency laying out their plan for the next eighteen years they'll take us up to the twenty thirty now we're going to see unmanned and unmanned network research facilities on the surface

of mars now they will be there to gather as much of. the mission 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 but as far as the current missions go what we're going to see is the international space station scrapped the i 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 buying up time and it will lead 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 drugs cost more say 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 picador now that's actually the same launch pad as where eureka garren blasted off to be the first man in 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 of rockets those next generation spacecraft will be launched from the next generation of cosmodrome as well. was artie's pretty radical right there let's look at some other global news for you in brief here are three what i will start with pakistan an american drone attack has killed six suspected militants in pakistan just near the afghan border as you can see right there at 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 but have killed many civilians as well islamabad criticizes the remote controlled air attacks publicly but the government is believed to have supported the covert cia run program. israel and the palestinian militants have agreed to a cease fire 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 israelis wounded in airstrikes and militant rocket attacks since friday by the violence that 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. rios was found guilty of killing two

hundred one people and throwing their bodies down a well in the village of dawson in one thousand nine hundred two he also was given thirty years for each killing and thirty years for crimes against humanity after being extradited from california that is quite a while as its 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. and the two atlanta airport now that's in the u.s. of course where plane and maintenance workers have had a rather bad start to the day eighty five am engine test ended up with rather a little too much throttle applied it might seen an empty passenger plane ending up certainly a bit out of the parking zone and no one was hurt unlike the pride of the ground crew. all right over to the beach we go to the r.t. hello to you we understand that are the largest deal coming up on russia's largest alley when your producer has lost its chairman what's the story with that well

victor a very good was the chairman has now resigned he is stepping down he says this is because the conflict of interest with the company's management about how the company is run and he says as a result become but he is in a crisis situation while rufe south. for more than a year now victim very sober has been ignoring his obligations as chairman and on the sixteenth of march there will be a meeting when a new chairman basically will be potentially appointed but there's also several other aspects to this conflict it's also about the management of a very prized asset the result possesses and that's a stake in the north nickel and nickel mine and what to do with it and also about the policy of the company in paying dividends hasn't been paying for quite a while now let's speculate now with robert mounts from creative financial corp rubbers so you why do you think. this isn't to resign from chairman of

reserve. i think he took this decision as a as these disagreements between himself and and and and this and your past have been increasing and and that's that's part of the reason i think that there is this is decided to step down on the other side as a result of this statement this morning there have been conversations at the board level about a change in chairmanship so i mean there have been disagreements in terms of management what exactly which aspects do you think exactly have made him take this decision. i think it's a combination of of things that you just mentioned the disagreements on how to how to pursue the north nickel stake the dividends has also been a disagreement recently in marketing agreements for the women in the floor so i

think this is just a combination of all these things and just coming together and and and stepping down today do you think there will be some some other kind of faction fall victim events or better could be potentially sell his stake in brazil. i think short term the answer is no. i mean unwinding that stake which is which is the sixty percent stake in the ten billion dollars plus company that's the largest they turn wind. i think that could be tied to some possible sale of the north nickel stake itself people roussel as a victim because said it is in a crisis situation would you agree with that kind of assessment of the situation the company. no i don't think it is in a crises it's three negotiated restructuring its debt has rough we know there were ten point nine billion dollars. that is managing it. the financing costs and that are around five percent this year it has maybe another hundred million dollars

of debt coming due so so no i think the debt the debt side is very manageable i don't think there is a crisis at the company and i will reduce our has to the hong kong stock exchange to suspend trading in it she has in the russian markets we've seen a drop of three point four percent in the deposed receipts of the company what do you think will happen next. i think you're going to see some more pressure on the share price over the next couple of days but i think long term it will be important to the next german would be an independent director will be someone closer to mr due process so i think i think that will be an important issue and again if it's an independent director i think the market would look at it quite positively all right robert mance director of metals and mining i could see a recession after you see if the thank you so much for your time. all right so that's all we have time for in this edition of the business news on all day but do

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