broke in new strollers to resign from al jazeera accuse station bosses of fabricating reports to broadcast their view rather than show what's really happening in conflict or in syria. the polls in their record as barack obama and david cameron most over their afghanistan strategy after the massacre of sixteen civilians from an american soldier in the country. china warns of the urgent need to slow down growth to avoid an economic economic and political trash just as get great in europe eyes of beijing as a potential cash crop. is

uncommon broadcasting if you live from the heart of moscow. well as the conflict in syria rages on media spin doctors are fighting their own battle to shape public opinion on the crisis their efforts are made easier by unconfirmed and sometimes contradictory reports and footage from the conflict zone but the zeal of one channel al-jazeera has already for several key members of its staff to resign in protest marches maria and moshe has more. clashes in the streets of syria have been raging for a year now but behind the scenes there is a media war that's just as damaging as the one taking israeli lives rafi claude's freelance investigative journalist from damascus says he's found what he thinks is proof of media manipulation of the conflict in syria and this video from the syrian

town of holmes the camera focuses on the city's all the refinery the shooting begins seven hours before media viewers around the world see a pipeline explosion allegedly caused by assad's army bombardment you can clearly see that something is slowly burning in the distance when the smoke has thickened english speakers correct their cameras position for a better shot of what's going on they shake it to make it look like amateur video with every minute is good news on the road you receive it's clear it's not an explosion ignoring people reporting it will be a need to see. in another video from a hospital in homes someone behind camera talks to a doctor in the corner we see a little knock him. good will punish you and talk about his word. he will again after some thirty minutes away tame the crew starts to get nervous. maybe we'd know we need al-jazeera

wildlife zero eventually the girl will forget some details. punish you be sure and your children in this footage we see danny holmes activist known for his exclusive reports from the very epicenter of the conflict his trip carrying to go live on c.n.n. his relaxed and calm. and there is no shooting until he asks for it. it's a digital easy target. no worries just deal. with . so what should i say but hold dear. tell them the reason buildings collapsed and we're taking buildings why. he did it could be a hundred get dead here in the last hour to. two hundred dead enough. to

know you've got four people in the bed. because. you cannot see activity become journalists trying to make a chaise as hard as possible. approaches but not everyone is happy about it well known war correspondent elise hashem used to report for al-jazeera from the world's conflict hot spots but syria has become the rubicon cross he mentioned armed groups fighting against assad's army and his buses and told him he needed a vacation he has just resigned because of biased coverage he says. like you know promoting lucian's in libya syria. egypt tunisia whatever but i don't think for example the revolution for her reign on saudi arabia they entered the ritchie from beirut where ali has been working has also quit for same reason. we started to invite guests from americans who only criticize the regime in syria and

support the regime in bahrain and persons who justify nato intervention this is unacceptable by the media and this is just a proxy it's a proxy used by external by some approaches like certain a government by maybe the west robert if you will this was. was more and more proof imagine all the international media is involvement in the arab spring revolutions the question remains open to what extent they influence events and how much responsibility do they therefore share for what follows. are t beirut lebanon. the assad government has scheduled parliamentary elections for the seventh of may russia is praising the move but says change and reforms are long overdue on the ground syrian troops have overrun another flashpoint city lib pushing back armed rebels opposition activists claim the area is now become the scene of a crackdown while the government's hailing victory against what it calls

a foreign funded terrorism rebel political leaders have confirmed that they've been promised weapons from abroad meanwhile the international community is still unable to reach consensus on how to act the u.n. estimates more than eight thousand people have been killed in syria since last march. still ahead in the program nuclear propaganda. we report on why israel still hasn't ruled out the possibility of an attack on the ground and that's the top of the program despite public this quiet. it's the billions have been killed by a roadside bomb in afghanistan just days after a u.s. soldier massacred sixteen civilians and a shooting rampage in washington president obama is hosting his key ally british prime minister david cameron for talks on the afghan military campaign reports. reports from the u.s. capitol. both countries are facing

a huge backlash from their joint campaigns topping the agenda is of getting this then especially in the wake of the tragedy that happened there over the weekend when a u.s. soldier apparently murdered sixteen innocent afghans in cold blood including women and children analysts say the incident is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the problems that the allied forces mission faces in afghanistan the u.s. and the u.k. or the main contributors to the war in afghanistan and as the two countries are trying to coordinate a timetable for withdrawal analysts say becomes increasingly clear that their nation building effort has been a failure of insurgency and the country's rampant afghans clearly want the allied forces out isn't is like the latest murder of innocent civilians are used by all kinds of extremists to recruit even more people to their ranks opium poppy and kerry in production in afghanistan has increased dramatically in the last ten years of the war there and is now at record levels and part of the money from its sales effectively goes to support terror around the globe by the way the first country to fall victim to the rampant opium production in afghanistan is russian is watching

very nervously and with huge concern at what the allied forces are doing there because their actions directly affect russia's national security what's interesting here in america even the mainstream media have been generally supportive of war seems not to say trigger happy have started echoing what most people say here in the united states and the thoughts almost pleas that you hear of most often with regard to afghanistan or are they just don't tell us that we're winning and b. why isn't the leadership listening to us that we have to say here note opinion polls show more than sixty percent of americans want their troops out of against them and they want them out now so with this in mind is going to be very hard for mr cameron and president obama to pet each other on the back and celebrate success when so much speaks to the contrary. right now he said handing u.s. defense secretary is an afghanistan trying to mend a severely damaged ties with control after the burning of the koran by american

troops the afghan president says the latest civilian killings by an american soldier are unforgivable london based investigative journalist simon assaf a says the military campaign is by down by ever changing goals they will be trying to manage but i think is committed as a moral collapse of the of the occupation we have to remember that poor obama who opposed the war in iraq the afghan war was the good war so this latest incident following the burning of the koran so happened quite recently we just feel that the whole kind of moral case for the war has collapsed i've been trying to chip away from the afghan war for a while i mean. remember it's you know it's over ten years now and we've had so many promises so many lies the end of the tunnel and so on the surge is that dramatic surge is troop surges all these things have failed and you just feel that there was this this account just to really quietly maybe if we just leave without

making much noise people will forget that we were here but it's an insider's look you have just blown out completely that the reason they went in was to destroy al qaeda and osama bin laden was across the border in pakistan so then it became a war against the taliban and then a war against the afghan people and so now at the end of all this horrific process we turn to the point to say well i actually need to sit down and talk to the taliban these are not foreigners these are afghans and they represent something inside the country in the end the truth is that they are going to have to be the losses of their own fate. global debt crisis is causing world markets to fluctuate yet again later peter lavelle and his cross trial guests debated whether more financial regulation would make for a healthier international economy here's a sneak peek. if you look at what's going on in the world at the moment there's this huge bill going through america called dodd frank and i by simply i mean it's now up to something like six and a half thousand pages can anybody in their right mind expect to use that to create

any sort of a framework apart from the large amount of paper that you can go and sit on or possibly make. and i think that's the problem we're running into here peter is that actually we can talk about these lovely concepts all day but actually we've got a nightmare coming up because everybody's going to be potentially in danger of wearing an orange jumpsuit because they won't do what they're able to do and if we don't have any markets whatsoever then reasonable commerce is going to come to a whole because actually i think arnold said it best first of all you can't be extreme you can't have total regulation because that stalin ism and those markets didn't work terribly well and you can't have complete art not capitalism which admittedly we've never really seen in the world but i suppose you could argue happened during the industrial revolution because that's going to be a mess. now moving on to china who must put the brakes on growth and bring in urgent reforms to keep the world's second largest economy stable and of political crisis chaos

a stark warning comes from premier wen jiabao who is preparing to hand over power later this year it comes as beijing finds debt laden europe knocking on its store for help our correspondents are selling your reports. with china's three trillion plus dollars in foreign currency reserves it was only a matter of time before debt late and europe came knocking on its store from the chinese side or the leaders always say ok they are waving his shoulder within the school car so actually you can see that's kind of a you tube because. it's like not putting in practice may be some kind of a deal for me well it's not even a maybe china's call is clearly on the rise and so is its confidence this time around china has no qualms letting the e.u. know that it is well aware of its trump card and that any help will calm at a price top of its list of demands. gaining the status of

a full fledged market economy and lifting the one nine hundred eighty nine ban on its purchase of military weapons from the e.u. . and for the first time china has openly used its potential cash card to lash out at the e.u. for a recent anti subsidy and dumping investigations into imports of chinese made steel products precisely because it chinese know there is a danger of some form of protectionism what they want to do is have companies and bases in europe factories manufacturing products. and screwdriver companies in europe so that a lot of their products will be labeled made in germany made in france made in greece and so on so they will not be considered to be implications from china and the plans already in action just last month the first chinese automobile assembly plant opened it will garia aiming to produce fifty thousand vehicles per here for the whole european can't of it raising more fears of china's far reaching influence

it does would reemerge and so far as. it is you know. these it's from cards where you can but europe hasn't thrown in the towel just yet it still has the power to grant china's wishes and as a country's second biggest trade partner the fall of one is the fall of both the e.u. also has its own demands for one backing on syria and iran part of the political game commercial politics game that is being played is very much. in part because of two natural resources but behind the gates of cash rich china it's fighting its own battle trying to sell the idea to its people chinese internet forums were a buzz with annoyance at what they see as poor ordinary chinese paying for rich europeans so that's why they're trying to prime minister. try to persuade

people and people and. colleagues in the government. helping the european union is also helping ourselves not all the chinese are could bits but if business must go on one local commentator wrote don't hand over a dime without asking for the world in return tests are still your r t brussels. on the roller coaster that the global economy has become some countries are experiencing ops and downs and terms of their international standing as we report on march greece has been given the benefit of the doubt by the ratings agency which raised the country's credit status a prime it's a pretty deep level after it sealed the second bailout from the e.u. . chop chop london's bobbies going on a spree rather than on the beat buying water cannons chemical gas and even more

tasers find out what they're planning to do with their new equipment and our team got caught. also on our web site the final frontier russian probes to visit mars jupiter argentina's get the details on the country's ambitious space exploration plans at r.t. dot com. nearly a billion people in the world are going to be. in the united states even our trash cans are filled with food you just have to go get it all of these perfectly good eggs because one was cracked didn't even get all over the other ones just grew more

with rotten choose from the german if we really are stuck with. the dumpster at one am this morning three pm this afternoon on the grill it is made from one doesn't dumpster equations. delicious breakfast for the family aches and throws for about a week every year in america we throw away ninety six billion pounds of.

technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the future covered. thanks for joining our at eighteen minutes past the hour what's been called a lot of oratory depth has been discovered in a garage in russia. a republic containing nine bombs and large quantities of explosive making materials the amount was equivalent to a hundred kilos of t.n.t. and now to demolish a large residential area police have a stablish the identity of the owner of the garage and are now searching for him investigators believe the explosives were intended for terror attacks in crowded areas of the city all of the devices were defused by disposal experts. now

to some other news from around the world. also with belgian students house crashed in a tunnel in switzerland killing twenty eight people most of whom were children the vehicle was taking fifty two a tourist back to belgium from a skiing trip when the crash happened near the italian border the investigation was launched into the cause of the tragedy. the international criminal court has convicted a warlord in the democratic republic of congo using children as soldiers in a tribal war thomas lubanga will be sentenced at a later hearing and could face up to life imprisonment for prosecution also accused him of using children as young as nine as bodyguards and sex slaves. around president has appeared before parliament to answer questions regarding his foreign and domestic policy decisions mahmoud ahmadinejad is accused of mismanaging

the nation's economy and challenging the already of the country's supreme leader he denies the allegations but now faces calls for his impeachment it was the first time since one thousand seven hundred nine that iran's parliament has summoned to the president. meanwhile iran has rejected allegations by the u.n. nuclear watchdog about it trying to clean up radioactive evidence of secret nuclear work at a key military strike to iran also says it's ready to allow i.a.e.a. inspections there but under certain conditions meanwhile tel aviv isn't backing down from its threat to attack but as paula slayer reports about not striking a chord with israeli public opinion. there's a growing chorus of anger in israel but the government refuses to listen there's no logic in attacking iran. we have a government that. things and that's really right and while most experts agree

israel is far from having the capability. to attack iran israeli officials keep hinting a striking could be imminent the million dollar question right now is whether or not israel would go it alone it could call on its closest ally the united states for hope but washington's making a lot of noise not to strike i don't think there's a possibility. for we'll say. we need them erm affirmative america the solution before with. the best they would. we don't expect a green light and we can say it was probably. some relations between israeli and american leaders are tense sort of bondage amounting in a loose talk of war coming out of little yorkies government i would not say that. you know. what this roster conquer the us

government. cannot accept the idea that the israeli government in design you know one of us will be. in of war and while no israeli official has gone so fast to confirm an attack on iran the implications are clear the consequences of such political moves could be very very. important namely. closing the straits of those. stopping the flow of oil from the gulf. and the renewable. we are not going to reopen the full flow of or less a. ranking iran. in spite of american explicit objections we. certainly. hamper israel's relations with the united states.

even break them all together and in the long run that might be a gamble even more dangerous then taking on iran policy r.t. television. british conservative and the john baron told r.t. that top of attacking iran will only make a peaceful outcome less likely you can watch us full interview later this hour but here's a taste of what's to count. it's not only naive but it's illogical it's naive because the policy of force has clearly failed policy of saber rattling and sanctions has not worked they are yesterday's partner says iran is not going to be deterred from pursuing its nuclear program but it's also in logical because we're keeping an option on the table which clearly inflames the situation people know that it's. a disaster if we pursue that option of force so i think you have to be

realistic the present policy is a failed the present policy is a heightening tensions what we want is now to pull back from any chance of military conflict and take a fresh look at the situation and adopt a fresh approach. now it's time for the latest business update dimitris keeping us well informed throughout the day hello there dimitri so it seems like cash continues to escape russia that's absolutely right south to around seventeen billion dollars well according to the canonic ministry estimates in january another ten twelve escapes in around february well let's take a look at how the markets are reacting to that it doesn't seem like this is having an impact seems the investors in russia are quite used to seeing capital outflow really for the past year it's been so the r.t.s. is up more than one percent of my sex is a pretty much by the same amount we take a look at the main stock movers some interesting stuff going on with the russia's

leading car maker out of as it's up almost five percent on rumors that it's main. may take a controlling stake in their company. energy shares are actually feeling under the weather not so good as the markets a loop oil is pretty flat and gas from as up just point six percent is. now in the europe there's a moderate gain we're seeing right now in the foot sea it's up one third of a percent the dax up a bit better than that more than one percent this is of course based on what we saw in the united states in the previous session take a look at those figures in the u.s. we saw a very good session with the dow gaining one point seven percent nasdaq one point nine percent on the chairman ben bernanke he's as of the colonies more often mistake now he says the latest inflationary spike that we have seen is temporary and that record low interest rates north two point two five percent will be kept

there for quite a while and now is take a look at some other markets and commodities so we are seeing prices still quite high although they are declining by around thirteen to sixteen cents at this hour still one hundred six and a half dollars per barrel for light sweet is quite supportive for the russian market at least and if you take a look at what's happening with the rubles as a direct correlation it's strengthening versus the dollar and the united european currency by just a notch though that although we have seen pretty good strengthening the previous session and the dollar continues its gains versus the year on that rosy assessment from a federal chairman ben bernanke meanwhile billionaires in russia slam getting a person's new robin hood tax fearing that it will cause social strife now our correspondent daniel bushell was at a moscow conference and he says the atmosphere there was pretty hot. it's

revolutions like nineteen seventeen when you get social twelve against each other teuku of war here on russia's rich street billionaires lloyd the luxury tax and they've found billions of loopholes why. won't a charge out expensive calls brings in pay not a tax on luxury housing soviet pensioners with nice flats and the way corrupt bureaucrats will steal any earnings they claim is that of threatening tycoons with new problems as they rejoin wimbledon's chief walled off tax then amnesty to all those who bring their own least all dishonest wealth but from abroad one hundred seventeen means that it was no wisdom to. social tension he would be against this actually kicks because what he means for the action takes some time and it's a beautiful laid his will his might might be takes texas i make a mistake already but i would like to be clear it's in. all their

capitals or their money whatever they have around the world they should bring it here is they should pay once upon a time tax leaves they will pay sixteen percent more money otherwise people will be too much can lead to and he will keep a sense around. this thing taxes and the constant threat of new arbitrary charges is more just one of the four hundred private jets owned by russians all bridges in this country the rich propose the complete opposite to get the government welfare backs. just to remind us of you as the introduction of the luxury tax was among that in a person's pre-election promises a really investors right now are looking for some kind of sustainability in regards economic reform that's the way of the markets look at this hour we will go back in fifty five minutes i'm going up at.

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