the un forges ahead in its efforts to mediate peace in syria with russia backing the push for a diplomatic solution. that the syrian opposition admits it's been on from abroad some can see they called for military intervention. gunmen 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. as the e.u. approved 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 while

the eurozone crisis rages on. shares in the world's largest producer roussel drop three point four percent at the end of tuesday session while the market grows around half a percent in russia more on this in around twenty minutes to. a very warm welcome to you from all of us here at r.t. if i'm wrong recent shame as the international community remains at loggerheads over a solution to syria russia is bolstering its push for peace moscow wants a cease fire without preconditions and is indorsing the joint un arab league peace effort led by kofi annan but meanwhile damascus is going ahead with more democratic reforms with parliamentary elections now do you in may with you tells us he's paula slipped. 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 and so far all attempts to reach some kind of cease fire has proven to amount to nothing on monday yesterday the united nations security council met and their muscle expressed grave concern and said better 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 one that he has reportedly put forward concrete proposals on the table at

the same time the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov has urged that this proposal 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 taken with them the people who are fighting in syria against the government. there one of them you have this free syrian army there are reports that some groups of like. and they do have arms in their heads so if the past is to see that also those responsible for every sing there for him was just like a disputed maybe it's something which catches the eye of the people who watch t.v. but if. this is your it also is not a boat or treating such public opinion but is a boat stopping the bloodshed then we must be a bit more primitive is largely

a media blackout in syria which means it's very difficult to know what's happening very difficult to confirm sources we've been following up to report with the whole office with three members of the they wus authors of al jazeera who have resigned over what they say is unfair biased and propaganda live reporting particularly over events in syria and this is just one example that shows just how big and how difficult to manage this information war is how does iraq and setting the news agenda fitting the news agenda being set by it's a channel once held it is a mouthpiece of freedom and change is fast becoming an instrument of political pressure and propaganda west 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 out right into the government and declaring 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 for incitement and modernization and i. 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 justify nato intervention this is unacceptable. set up fifteen years ago al jazeera is owned by the state of qatar its english language spun off and on it 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 think was largely true. and its coverage showed bear very clearly there were

critical programs compared to arabic olga's 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 void by the recent arab uprisings but critics claim it's increasingly become a tool of khatami and western policies and themes 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 we say the b.b.c. and others have been for decades where does the arabic has covered the story of syria is completely one sided. a chargeback type i another al-jazeera staffer who complained by e-mail that his bosses refused to publish pictures of armed fighters clashing with a syrian army the former i'll just see where they would correspondent to channel often ignored the wind and on

a new constitution in syria as for libya egypt 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 and it's raised a number of our growls and given weight to those critics who say the channel's changed its tune taking the question with al-jazeera is once we've aleutian every voice has been drowned out by and now did noise the agenda of its sponsors r.t. contacted al-jazeera as head office but the channel was unavailable for comment quality r t tell up with some of our viewers coming to you live from the heart of 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 was 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 currently held in an undisclosed location the shooting has severely strained relations between afghans and foreign forces and see 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 result he's gone a trick and reports the patience of the afghan people may well be running out. sixteen innocent afghan villagers slaughtered in cold lot 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 georgia 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 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 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 were afghans film selves humiliated insulted and 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 think 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 and then for these for these governments to stop once of a name in countries where they have absolutely no right to intervene 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 aiding a country in 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 created the taliban has vowed 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 it's over 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 that said 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. so it's always a pleasure when you get involved with our stories here in r.t. would love to know what you think about the situation in afghanistan just go to our web site r t v dot com you can participate in our latest world wide poll let's

bring up the numbers now for a vis our from our c dot com there are roughly forty one percent of you now say that the surge of tensions in afghanistan will make the human cost of war even higher almost a third believe it will bring afghanistan back into the hands of the taliban by the view that increased tension will force an early u.s. troop withdrawal comes in third with just fourteen percent in last place thirteen percent the opinion that it will encourage the u.s. to stay on for years but do go online culture vote while you're there at the dot com and check out some of the other stories we have outlined for you there right now for example are obama's presidential ratings losing heat research shows his support for lng as a gasoline prices rise but also on our website. cheese or rather cheesed off no. photos allow us your stories in some petersburg banned the use of cameras and video equipment in the cities metro system to find out those details about seems

off. it's good to have you with us on our team today now egypt's the lower house of parliament has unanimously younus with mostly excuse me voted to expel israel's ambassador in cairo and the whole thing gas exports to the country it also called on the egyptian government to quote revise all its relations and agreements with israel referring to it as the enemy cross to jerusalem and told more this with former israeli ambassador to egypt and that of a marcello good to see you thank you for coming on r.t. today as the ruling military council runs the country and not the parliament do you think we can expect this to actually happen. no i don't expect absolutely no unfortunately the parliament is powerless and cannot do it but still we are

surprised if if a parliament of a great country like egypt a proof of such a statement something is wrong in this parliament you see because if we are the men and if it is really easy to suffocate the next thousand years i mean something is really wrong and we hope that the once the transitional period will be finished there will be elected a new president everything would be changed in relations to come to the. right road the right way because i mean. israel is no conflict with egypt we have sold all our conflict with egypt through the peace treaty so why going back and attacking israel but well i know it comes from the muslim brothers they have now the majority is a problem it's a problem for israel's a problem for egypt but this is the reality i'm sorry to trouble you say the muslim brotherhood is the one that's causing these problems are they to blame for

describing israel as the nation's number one enemy if so why it comes it can come. only from a distorted ideology and hatred there is no other reason for such a statement against israel israel is a friend of egypt if you solved all its conflict which is it does no problem between us i mean nobody can say something against israel we did nothing wrong to egypt since that. was signed we have a lot of free we have a good their logo on the political level on the security level so why a out of the blue they come and they decide that israel is the is the greatest enemy of egypt i mean this is nonsense it's only based upon final peace and hatred there is no explanation for such a state so as you say as you say a sudden change of attitude and friendship from egypt toward israel you mention the

peace treaty back from nine hundred seventy nine but you served as an israeli ambassador to egypt under the rule of mubarak what changes can you see there now many people are saying with the arabs arab spring uprising democracy has finally come to each other not any positive changes that you can make note of. first let us start with president mubarak he kept egypt as a stable country in the last thirty s. and this is very very important now that when we see that there is no stability it's a. almost a disaster for the country but letters reserve judgment for the future so this is for the mubarak time now ok they had. as they say free and clean elections by the majority seventy five percent more or less is composed of extremist muslim political parties this is bad this is bad for israel this is bad

for democracy eastland does not repeat itself democracy democracy is a value post to slump islam would like to see the koran and the heidi's ruling the sharia law in the country but it is impossible for a country like egypt so i mean everything is a mess now and we should wait and see what happens once because he should do we written in the net in the coming weeks and then and you president elect i hope that once all this would be done they can. go back to its balance but as you mention of america you call it a mess in egypt with these recent democratic elections the muslim brotherhood voted in by the majority is it just simply a case of contrasting ideologies here. hey listen elections are very important for democracy but elections are not i mean

a election is not. something that if it is done it means democracy you see what happened in egypt there islam. the religion took place and this small liberal party is that they came to into being in the last few months we did they did you have to did you young people who demonstrated in the streets they could not they were able to perswade the egyptians to vote for them because in the last thirty forty fifty fifty years egyptian did not understand didn't know what was what is what was democracy what is democracy they did their love with me gyptian was done even through mubarak period through slum to religion you see on one side you have the muslim brothers penetrating into the society on the other side. in the textbook of the schools from the elementary school to to the

high school islam was teach is the most important value of life and people who are supposed to accept it well it certainly seems as a believer that islam islam is part of a fundamental factor when it comes to the muslim brotherhood that are coming into power as we said this for ambassador israeli ambassador to egypt it's very much i wish we had more time for this we don't thank you very much for you having on r.t. today thank you and you are welcome. well it's good to have you with us here in israel is also where in the news on another story agreeing a ceasefire with palestinian militants after four days of deadly clashes a 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 air strikes and militant rocket attacks since friday and the violence was triggered by the israeli assassination of a palestinian resistance leader. an american drone attack has killed

six suspected militants in pakistan near the afghan border and the pakistani army has been trying to clear the region of militants who still have bases in the area but american drone strikes are aimed at local terrorists began in two thousand and eight but have killed many civilians as well islam about criticizes the remote controlled area tax publicly where the government is believed to have supported the covert cia run program. according what an all or has sentenced a former special forces soldier to over six thousand years in prison over a massacre during the country's civil war petro pimental of your son was found guilty of killing two hundred one people and throwing their bodies down a well in the village of course as in one thousand eight hundred two was given thirty years for each killing and thirty years for crimes against humanity after being extradited from california what tomorrow's civil war claimed almost two hundred thousand lives before ending in one thousand nine hundred six with most of

the killings by the us backed by. the e.u. has given the green light for the one hundred thirty billion euro dig out for greece saving it from economic death by debt for the time being a crisis hit spain is now in focus however after saying it can't meet austerity targets set out by the e.u. u.k. independence party european parliament member paul not all says it's time that southern european countries so it's a little. serious trouble i mean you just got to look at the amount of people who are out from the streets demonstrating at the moment suicide rate through up there with minimum wages being caught there's mass homelessness in that country at the moment and all the european union is doing. is it's encouraging the creative civilisation to head towards revolution because that's what will happen if we continue with these austerity measures there's only one so nothing comes out of the all together gets back onto the track marks the values are thrown exchange rate at

a competitive level get this exports moving the idea that greece spain portugal and all these mediterranean countries could exist within the same euro zone used a country like germany was completely farcical from the start. we said it we predicted this it was impossible that a coup so the only way that this thing can move on is for probably the north the country with the form their own euro zone and for those who fall out altogether to go back home for their own good and. in southern europe if a euro dream is fast becoming a nightmare in spain there have been huge protests against austerity cuts and new labor laws 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 new regulations from brussels as artie's syria reports. there's much ado about these feathered creatures. on january first of this year the european commission's welfare of laying hens 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 took the mobile home to make it will say no thank you i will not with us till my life and waited on. so there and it's medium and small but still completely. taken over by the bigger ones and then welcome scenario and already crisis hit a you countries that michelle was one of the lucky ones he shelled out more than three million euros to build a new cages house i think it was i was. knocked. around the city. i think. i think i.

think. they also now have to be trained to lay eggs in a special nest which isn't exactly easy at all cases like this because you look really bringing in the number of. the issues extend beyond these cages 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 the 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 and 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 with a clear scientific mission remark 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 there that she. students legal and of course they've been very very worried when they look across the english channel and they see hope it would be good to me to good studio in the bank to compete with media calls because coming up that is what british producers are so obsessed about 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. what are speaking of business head over to the business press to tell me truly

understand you're keeping an eye on all the markets for us and we've heard that russia has metal miners are on the agenda what's happened with that well of russia's largest and the world's largest producer of aluminum roussel has lost its chairman because of x. of that it has resigned now he says the main reason is the differences that he's got with management which have quote lead become pretty into a crisis situation meanwhile roussel says the projects i'm betting has been ignoring his obligations as chairman oversell for quite a while now more than a year and therefore they were potentially thinking about replacing him at an upcoming meeting on march sixteenth but this friday among other sticking points analysts speculate they could be the company's dividend policy and also what to do with the price that said that resells got and that's a twenty five percent stake in morals mikko well robert mance a committee of financial corporation says the effect on the company's business will

be short. i believe the situation has come about because of the disagreements escalating between mr berg and mr dyer pasta. we don't believe that that result is in a crisis situation. it's it's that is very manageable it's well positioned in the lumina markets so there is no crisis situation there and that's the easy and finally short term in this is this will put some pressure on the share price i have a longer term depending on who was elected the new chairman of the board it could be positive for the shareholders. well while overall the sentiment on the russian markets was positive on wednesday let's take a look at the old jews they let me correct myself these are the figures that we've got right now the r.t.s. is up point nine percent of the close of the session m i six percent if we take a look at the main movers on the market you'll see that roussel was going against the trend it was down three point four percent of the close and also its hong kong

trading was suspended on the company's request were often losing. gazprom by the end of the session moved into red territory also on declining oil prices in the united states the markets are positive at this hour they're hailing the latest retail reports which stipulates that retail sales went up in january in the year of the sentiment as it also positive we are looking at figures of point eight percent growth for the fourth seat and for the dax in frankfurt bad as the e.u. ministers approved a second package should bailout package for greece and hundred seventy. now if we move over to other markets commodities are in the mix right now we've heard a statement from ecuador's all boil minister saying that prices are at the high end of the price range and on the currency markets the euro is gaining versus the greenback as you can see oh actually it's lost as you can see the latest figures

versus the dollar meanwhile the ruble was strengthening against both parents and put the greenback and. that's the way the markets look at this hour we will be back in fifty five minutes time with not. wealthy british style. is not right in the fight back yard in america. hi guys.