u.n. forges ahead in its efforts to mediate peace in syria with russia backing the push for a diplomatic solution. to the syrian opposition admits it's been on on a board some continue they called thing military intervention. gunman attack an afghan government delegation visiting the site where sixteen civilians were killed by iran paging u.s. soldiers leaving one dead and three injured. as e.u. approves the second bailout for greece to stave off bankruptcy a report on how the nonstop flow of regulations from brussels is forcing firms out

of business while the eurozone crisis rages on our top stories this hour. international news and comment from moscow with you twenty four hours a day as the international community remains at loggerheads over a solution to syria russia is bolstering its push for peace and wants a cease fire without preconditions and is indorsing the joint u.n. arab league peace effort led by kofi annan meanwhile damascus is going ahead with more democratic reforms with parliamentary elections now in june may. slip has more . 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 a diplomatic solution the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov has expressed his concern that these weapons could end up in the hands of al qaeda is also said that course from qatar for some kind of military intervention and 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 kofi annan was in serbia 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 at the same time the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov has urged that this proposal lead to something he has courted for the bloodshed to end immediately but he has said that

he needs to be a pragmatic approach let's take a listen the people who are fighting in syria against the government. among them you have this free syrian army there are reports that some groups of the are and they do have arms and. so. if the task is to see that is responsible for everything there for humans just like a dispute is maybe it's something which catches the eye of the people who watch t.v. but if. this if you're a the council is not a vote creating such public opinion but it 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 on the porch 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 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. does iraq is certainly the news agenda setting the news agenda being saved by it's a channel once held it is a mouthpiece of freedom and change it's fast becoming an instrument of political pressure and propaganda that's been ongoing since last april when you know of two thousand and eleven their senior people for being you know the head of the bureau in beirut where many other people were 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 bureau says the channel had abandoned professional and objective reporting claiming it has become an operation room for incitement and mobilization and it says you have to 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 and bahrain we started by guess 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 the 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 etc. its coverage share show very clearly there were a few critical programs compared to arabic or just zero but it seems now working in tandem 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. it's very disturbing to hear al-jazeera is now are becoming this regional player for foreign policy in a way that some would argue they say the b.b.c. and others have been for decades the way others are her because covered the story of syria is completely one sided. a charge backed up by another al-jazeera staffer who complained via e-mail that his bosses refused to publish pictures of armed fighters clashing with a syrian army the former al-jazeera bay which correspondent to the channel also ignore differend and 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 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 begging the question with al-jazeera as a once we've illusionary voice has been drowned out by and now the noise the agenda of its sponsors r.t. contacted al-jazeera as head office but a channel was unavailable for comment policy or r.t. tell of. what he caught up with one of the journalists who left al-jazeera for his view on the row over coverage on syria. and there is no independent media anybody who is. is facing the money for the media outlets you can see what's going on on the television and the governments that are fighting it's the government influencing the war because some people are fueling the floor are paying the money are giving money are given on it's not only. those who are being run by both

those who are being you know. what i meant. and this is just the crux of it's a proxy used by it's like several factions like federal government by maybe the last. few of the stories. coming our way later this hour here on r t on the rides were for the white egypt's parliament physically israel is its number one enemy and wants to expel the country's ambassador to caro plus. missions to the moon to venus to jupiter all part of a ambitious plans for the russian space agency for the next eighteen years. but first an afghanistan one person has died and three others have been hurt when an afghan government allegation came under attack by traveling to the villages where 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 and held at an undisclosed location the shooting is severely strained relations between afghans and foreign forces with the 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. can reports the patience of the afghan people they will 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 a massacre as just one bad apple. this incident is charging 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 pave 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 these actions do not represent the values of the vast majority of coalition forces who serve their 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 laws on provides guns 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 can't take 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 stuffings of painting in countries where they have absolutely no rights when the very copious apologists handed out by the administration don't seem you. when to appease war critics back home let alone the afghan people but what about the whole idea in 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 to 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 soldiers rampage in afghanistan that it's 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 on revenge it becomes a vicious circle that grieves even more danger spreading far beyond the borders of afghanistan i'm going to check our reporting from washington our king. we would like to find out what you think about the situation in afghanistan go to our website harty dot com it's online all the time to take part in our latest poll let's have a quick look at the numbers on the screen now so far forty one percent of you say

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 taliban hands the view that increased tension will force an early u.s. troop withdrawal comes thirty to fifty percent. in last place you see there was just twelve percent is the opinion that it will encourage the u.s. state several more years to go online to cost your vote and while you're on the web site check out the stories we've got for you there at the moments. part of the problem is presidential ratings losing heat search shows the support for thing is gasoline prices rise also on the website moments. cheese or rather cheese dolph no photos of the authorities in st petersburg than the use of cameras and video equipment and the city's metro system. find out why. dot com.

the e.u. has given the green light for the one hundred thirty billion euro dig out from greece saving it from economic death by debt for the time being crisis that spain is now in focus however after saying it cannot meet a sturdy target set by the e.u. . and its party european parliament member paul nuttall is told me that he thinks it's time that southern european countries set sail alone greece is in serious trouble i mean you just got to look at the amount of people who are out on the streets demonstrating the problem and suicide rates are up there with minimum wages being caught there's mass homelessness in our 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 ounce or not that greece comes out of the oil altogether of the track. the value set its own exchange rate

a combatant of level get this exports moving the idea that restrain 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. was impossible article where the only way that this thing can move on is for probably the nordic countries to form their own euro zone and for the so-called countries to fall out altogether or go back on their own countries. in southern europe the euro dream is fast becoming a nightmare in spain there being a huge protest against austerity cuts a new labor laws which opponents say will make it easier for workers to be fired in a country where unemployment rates are among europe's highest and the financial crisis isn't stopping you regulations from brussels as a correspondent reports. there is much ado about these feathered 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. look at the mobility investment to make it will say thank you. to my life. so that's going to medium and small and still completely. good to be taken over by the bigger ones and then welcome scenario and already crisis hit a new countries but michelle is one of the lucky ones he shelled out more than three million euros to build the new cages i thought it was very. nice i'm not i. think the out of every person. i think that. that's something i think. they also now have to be

trained to lay eggs in a special nest which isn't exactly easy called all cases like this because. look really bringing it up north. but the issues extend beyond these cages 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 seen since the 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 but the fact that we have

taken the procedure is a clear sign of 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 dea and member states in our country they spend four hundred million pounds of road money getting there that changed. distance legal and of course they've been very very worried when they look across the english channel and they see people with each fifty million good student in the old illegal factory cage would never predict course what to do coming up that is what british producers are so upset about it that peter kay used to disobey the law. a law that has ruffled a more than a few feathers in the industry but at least some can go about their business it's likely happier. yes or silly artsy brussels. egypt's lower house of parliament has voted to expel israel's ambassador in car and

to stop gas exports in the country it also called on the egyptian government to revise all its relations and agreements with israel referring to it as the enemy well former israeli ambassador to egypt said that relations between the two remain good but blame the vote on the arab country being in flux since the revolution. first president mubarak he kept egypt as a stable country in the last and this is very very important now that when you see that there is no stability. the disaster for the country no 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 this is bad for this is bad for the my pussy if a parliament of a great country like egypt. such

a statement something is wrong in this so i mean everything is a mess now and we should wait and see what happens once because the key should do it be. in the next in the coming weeks and then a new president elect and i hope that once all these would be done if you go back to the balance. israel is also in the news on another story agreeing a ceasefire with palestinian militants 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 are being killed and thirty five israelis were injured in air strikes and militant rocket attacks since friday the violence was triggered by the israeli assassination of a palestinian resistance me. american drone attack has killed six suspected militants in pakistan in the afghan border 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 terrorist began in two thousand and eight but it killed many civilians too it's not about criticizes the remote controlled air attacks publicly but the government is believed to have supported the covert cia run program. according guatemala has sentenced a former special services soldier to over six thousand years in prison over a massacre journey country's civil war mental yours was found guilty of killing two hundred one people and throwing the ball is down a whirl in the village of bill sellers in ninety two and he was given thirty years for each killing of thirty years for crimes against humanity after being extradited from california or a minor civil war claimed almost two hundred thousand lives before ending in one thousand nine hundred ninety six with most of the killings by the u.s. backed army. to boldly go where no one has gone before that's part of the grand plan for the future of russia space program which has just been unveiled it

includes research stations on mars and exploration of other planets in the solar system are to put all of it as the details. ross cosmos the russian space agency laying out there 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'll be there 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 but as far as the current missions go what we're going to see is the international space station scrapped the i.s.a.'s has been on the go since the late ninety's and it has funding up until twenty twenty however well it

is going to be an old piece of kit really by the 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 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 now that's actually the same launch pad is where eureka garra blasted off to be the first man in space all those years ago however bacon or 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. it's picture of a rare bird and excitement in moscow zoo where three polar bear cubs have made their debut public appearance born in november they've since been kept in special sheltered conditions with their mother last year before they're strong enough to get out and discover the outside world but they're not in any hurry it would seem only leaving their lair for at most ten minutes a day so zoo visitors must rely on luck to catch a glimpse of moscow's new clubs on the block. and they're all going on here in the newsroom but it's now time to see what's happening in the financial world dimitri has the update for us to meet you what's in the center of business women's attention today then well in the spotlight as obviously the bag's resignation from the post of chairman of the world's largest

element rules out now he says he's leaving the job because there are differences between him and the management which have led to quote the company going into a crisis situation south and it's. been ignoring here's obligations as chairman of the company for more than a year now and not really taking part in the company's management so they were looking already for replacement among other sticky points and notes of policy towards managing the north's nickel stake that roussel has got twenty five percent stake and also the company's dividend policy well robert manne from a financial corporation says the effect of this resignation of will be short term. i believe the situation has come about because of the disagreements escalating you know between mr that's a very good mr deer pasta. we don't believe that that result is in a crisis situation. it's that is very manageable for position in the room in

a market so there is no crisis situation there the best the unique and and finally short term of the business will put some pressure on the share price our longer term depending on who is elected the new chairman of the board it could be positive for the sure has. speaking about share prices let's take a look at how the markets were faring and how roussel shares were doing well overall market performance was positive with the r.t.s. gaining almost two percent by the end of the day with my six around half a percent but if we take a look at the main movers on the mice you'll see that roussel was the outsider of trading down no three point four percent of the gross gazprom also moved into the red territory by the end of the session on lower energy prices that we saw at the close and there's burbank among financial stocks was the strongest up one and a half percent in the united states we're seeing two new psychological records as the dow jones reaching thirteen thousand and the nasdaq reaching three thousand

points these are very important of course landmarks and that's on a report so that the retail sales grew in february in the europe also a bit of a high there will all together the move was positive today in the markets where the footsie up four point nine percent the dax one point four percent e.u. ministers approving a second bailout for greece of around one hundred seventy billion dollars and when it comes to commodities been pretty volatile although right now world prices are growing light sweet adding sixty nine cents brant even more so and that's despite the fact that ecuador's over the opec minister among other ministers has also said that the oil prices right now at the top of the price range and let's take a look at the currency markets in the euro is losing with the dollar gaining value on that retail report well the ruble was strengthening versus the greenback and the euro. that's the way the markets look this hour we will be back next hour for an

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nearly a billion people in the world are going hungry every day. in the united states even our trash cans are full of the food you just have to go get it all of these perfectly good eggs because one was crap didn't even get all over the other ones just thrown away nothing cheers from the german oh. clearly my cup of coffee. in the dumpster at one am this morning three pm this afternoon on the grill take me from one dozen dumpster egg whites. delicious breakfast for the family.