broken news journalists who've resigned from al-jazeera accuse station bosses of fabricating reports to broadcast their view rather than show what's really happening in conflict on syria as we report tonight. barack obama and david cameron casually mull over their afghanistan strategy after the massacre of sixteen civilians by an american soldier of the country. and china warns of the urgent need to slow down growth to avoid an economic and political crash just as debt ridden europe buys up beijing as a potential cash cow and. hello

you're watching r.t. live from moscow it's eight pm wednesday evening here now my name's kevin know in our top story as the conflict in syria rages on media spin doctors are fighting their own battle tonights 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 there's ila one channel al-jazeera has already forced several key members of its staff to resign in protest at his riff and as more. clashes in the streets of syria have been raging for a year now but behind the scenes there is a media war. by the united are graphic lot 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 homes a 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 any common. receiver it's clear it's not an explosion. and people are reporting it the way they need to see it. in another video from a hospital in homes someone behind camera talks to a doctor in the corner we see a little not. good will punish you and then talk about his word. again after some thirty minutes away tame the crew starts to get

nervous and it's cool maybe the whole raid no we need al-jazeera wildlife on al-jazeera eventually the girl will forget some details god 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 history pairing to go live on c.n.n. he's relaxed and calm. and there is no shooting until he asks for it was so good use a target. no worries just do it. so we should assume the whole deal. tell the russian buildings collapsed we're taking you lying. there could be a miniature hunger again in the last hour or two. or two hundred dead in love

reality. to see activity become journalists try to make patients as close as possible. to how you've approached but not everyone is happy about it well known war correspondent ali has shared history portable al-jazeera from the world's conflicts hot spots but syria has become the rubicon he couldn't cross he mentions armed groups fighting against assad's army and his bosses and told him he needed medication he has just resigned because of biased coverage he says the sub were like you know promoting. syria. or egypt or whatever but i don't think for example the revolution in bahrain and saudi arabia they enjoy the ritchie from beirut where ali has been working has also quit for same reason. 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. and this is just a proxy it's a proxy used by by external. actions by several governments by maybe the west to fuel this world. but no and look proof of merging all the international media is involvement in the arab spring revolutions the question remains open to what extent do they influence events and how much responsibility do they therefore share portfolios. rif national r t beirut lebanon well meantime the assad government showed will parliamentary elections now for the seventh of may russia's praising the move put cyst change in reforms a long overdue on the ground syrian troops have overrun another flashpoint city is pushing back armed rebels there opposition activists claim the areas now become the scene of a crackdown and while the government's hailing victory against what it calls

foreign funded terrorism rebel political leaders have confirmed they have been promised more weapons from abroad meantime the international community still unable to reach consensus on how to wire act there's been calls from some countries for military intervention but one veteran u.s. statesman says getting involved could destabilize the entire region. the conflict within syria is still sporadic it is not a comprehensive conflict it is not a conflict which has visible united. and a clear platform so i think that this america plunging ahead with military action right here or with some other notion of how to resolve this problem by force i think would be counterproductive. and probably even regionally perhaps you stabilize and there is a real risk noted america became more directly involved. the conflict could see

you increasingly anti american characteristics not only in terms of syrian resistance to it but even with generally terms of islamic perception of america we have been involved in a war with iraq we have had to be involved in it and i would not want to list yet another conflict which america plays the preeminent role and relies on the military for its solution because in the general context of what we perceive as a decline in american influence in the middle east that would further aggravate interest. you're watching r t with me kevin i would still to come in the program nuclear propaganda a report on why israel still hasn't ruled out the possibility of an attack on iran and its atomic program despite public disquiet at home the next reports just coming in the bombs going off near the parts plane of the u.s.

defense secretary in afghanistan he had panetta wasn't on board when this blast happened at a key british military base this instant comes as president of course hosting his key ally british prime minister david cameron for talks in washington he's got a chance you can reports now from the u.s. capitol. both countries are facing a huge backlash from their joint campaigns topping the agenda is of ghana's 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. are the main contributors to the war in afghanistan and as the two countries are trying to coordinate a timetable for withdrawal and only say becomes increasingly clear that their nation building effort has been a failure insurgency in the country is 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 carrying 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 russia 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 so it's not to say trigger happy have started echoing what most people say here in the united states and the thoughts almost please that you hear of most often with regard to getting stoned or 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 no opinion polls show more than sixty percent of americans want their troops out of afghanistan and

they want them out now so with this in mind is going to be very hard for mr cameron and president obama compared to other on the back and celebrate success when so much speaks to the contrary. if you can in washington for us well after the fury over the recent burning of the qur'an by american troops the afghan president says the latest civilian killings by an american soldier unforgivable london based investigative journalist simon are south thinks the military campaign is bogged down right now by ever changing goals they will be trying to manage what i think is critical is a moral collapse of the of the occupation we have to remember that for obama who opposed the war in iraq the afghan war was the good war so this latest incident following the burning of the korans that happened quite recently i just feel that the whole kind of moral case for war has collapsed i've been trying to keep toe 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 the traffic surges troop surges all these things have failed and you just feel that there was this account just to really quietly maybe if we just leave without making much noise people will forget that we were here but. incidents like this could have just blown out completely that the reason they went in was to the story and to some of it martin 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 return to the point to say well we 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 masters of their own fate looking ahead tonight the global debt crisis is causing world markets to fluctuate yet again and later paid lavelle as crosstalk yes debate

whether war financial regulation will make for a healthier international economy. if we look at what's going on in the world at the moment there's this huge bill going through america called dodd frank i hear huge advisedly i mean it's now up to something like six and a half thousand pages how can anybody in their right mind expect to use that to create any sort of a framework apart from a large amount of paper that you can go and sit on or possibly make a sofa 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 the nightmare coming out because everybody's going to be potentially in danger of wearing an orange jumpsuit because they won't know what they're able to do and if we don't have any markets whatsoever then reasonable commerce is going to come to hold 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 isn't and those markets didn't work terribly well and you can't have complete are 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. well china saying it must put the brakes on growth and bring in urgent reforms to keep the world's second largest economy stable and avert political chaos but start warning was made by premier wen jiabao who's preparing to hand over power later this year it comes as paging fine this is europe holding its hand out for help or correspondent tess or a sitter wraps it up. with china's three trillion plus dollars in foreign currency reserves it was only a matter of time before debt europe came knocking on its store from chinese sorry but leaders always say ok they are waiting show that we can reach full power so actually you can see this kind of i think you would be present. if i could not putting in practice may be some kind of a deal for me well it's not even

a maybe now 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 come 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. . for the first time china has openly used its potential cash card to lash out at the e.u. for recent anti subsidy and anti dumping investigations into imports of chinese made steel products precisely because the chinese know that there is no danger of some forms of protectionism what they want to do is have companies and bases in europe factories manufacturing products or screwdriver companies in europe so that a lot of their products will be labeled made in germany made in plants made in greece and so on so they will not be considered to be importations from china and

the plans already in action just last month the first chinese automobile assembly plant opened in bulgaria aiming to produce fifty thousand vehicles through here for the whole european continent raising more fears of china's far reaching influence it does with emerging superpower as. it is you know. he's it's from cards where they can but europe hasn't thrown in the towel just yet it still has the power to grant china's wishes ever the 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 and national politics being played is very much to economics in particular 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 abuzz with annoyance at what they see as poor ordinary chinese paying for rich europeans so that's why the chinese prime minister when talbott just went out try to persuade people and people and. colleagues the in the the government. that. helping the european union is also helping ourselves not all the chinese are convinced but if business must go on one local commentator wrote don't hand over a dime without asking for the world in return that's our sylvia r t brussels. well on the rollercoaster that the global economy has become some countries are experiencing up sundowns in terms of their international standing as we report online tonight greece has been of course given the benefits of the doubts by the

fitch ratings agency which raised the country's credit status from its pretty default level after it sealed a second bailout from the e.u. . also copshop london's bobbies go on a spree rather than on the beach with water cannons tear gas and even more tasers on the shopping list find out what they're planning to do with the new equipment online from us tonight. and. the final frontier russian probes to visit mars jupiter and venus get the details on the countries around the issue of space exploration plans on our website r.t. the court and. he. came.

down for your fish or anti allocation joint phone or i pod touch from the on choose option. on the go. video on demand all season long broadcasts and are as. speeds you know with a part of your. question on the dot com. what's been called a laboratory of deaths been discovered in a carriage in russia's couple the noble car republic containing nine bombs and large quantities of explosives making materials now the amount was a quiver of one hundred kilos of t.n.t. that's enough to demolish a large residential area piece of establish the identity of the owner of the garage and then no 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

bomb disposal experts. elsewhere around the world tonight a bus with belgian students on board crushed in a tunnel in switzerland killing twenty eight people most of them children the vehicles taking fifty two tourists 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. a series of earthquakes has rattled tokyo in northeast japan the strongest tremor measured six point eight on the richter scale it was centered around two hundred thirty kilometers from the coast in the pacific ocean a six point one magnitude quake was later felt in tokyo course just last year that massive earthquake and tsunami hit japan leaving nineteen thousand people dead or missing. the international criminal court convicted a warlord in the democratic republic of congo of using children as soldiers in a tribal war thomas lubanga will be sentenced later here could face up to life

imprisonment the prosecution also accused him of using children as young as nine as bodyguards and sex slaves. iran's president appeared before parliament to answer questions regarding his foreign and domestic policy decisions mahmoud ahmadinejad's accused of mismanaging the nation's economy and challenging the authority of the country's supreme leader he denies the allegations but now faces calls risen pietschmann it was the first time since one thousand nine hundred seventy nine that around parliament has summoned the president. in time around rejected allegations by the u.n. nuclear watchdog that it tried to clean up radioactive evidence of secret nuclear work at a key military site to run also says it's ready to a low i spoke to is there but under certain conditions television whoever isn't backing down from its threat to attack and spotlessly reports that's not striking a chord though with israeli public opinion but. there's

a growing chorus of anger in israel that the government refuses to listen there's no logic in attacking iran but we have a government that plans illogical things and that's really frightening and while most experts agree israel is often having the capability to attack iran israeli officials keep hinting a strike could be imminent the million dollar question right now is whether or not it's all would go it alone it could call on its closest ally the united states or hope that washington is making a lot of noise not to strike the possibility that. we . firm up of america. and the best they would. we don't expect a green light and we can see it both probably a little the. relations between israeli and american leaders are tense look upon

a demanding an end to the loose talk of war coming out of little ne government i would not buy any we say that the. past. work is rough start on. the us economy. character here is really in resign you know one of us. in a war and while nobody's radio official has gone so fast to confirm an attack on iran the implications are clear and the consequences of such political moves could be very very. broad namely the. closing the strait of four walls. stopping the flow of oil in the gulf. a new arena will come out that we are not going to reopen the growth or less. franking iran. in spite of

american express and protection 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. and what about british conserve m.p. john baron told us that r t the talk of attacking iran will only make her peaceful outcome less likely it watches full interview in just a couple of minutes time this is a taster of. 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 been logical because we're

keeping an option on the table which clearly inflames the situation people know that it's. disaster if we pursue that option of force so i think you have to be realistic the present policy is a failed and 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. if you saw this program even cheers catch up with dmitri nokia because well informed throughout the day the business there sco their dmitri know russia has been hit by another wave of capital outflow other markets taking that there well it seems traders have become quite used to that trend kevin because what we've been seeing today is actually positive trading with the no shrugging off yes in the we have seen another wave in february eleven billion dollars leaving the country of the up to seventy billion according to economics ministry estimates in january when we

talked to the party by russia's chief economist of about the reasons behind this trend. well i think people are driven by the russian companies which are taking money abroad including pain external debt and invest in a group political fact is also strong we think the trend starting from april when this look now it's about the new government. also going to those figures for the arts yes i know my second and they were positive and very well positive actually one point two percent because you can see that. that's on a lot of actually factors positive trading in the e.u. quite widely positive stress test results for the us banking system let's take a look at what's been moving my six interesting stories over the after hours was one of the biggest gainers of four point six percent on rumors that it's a partner company needs sam it could take

a controlling stake in the carmaker and russia now look at it with a bit weaker than the market talking about ambitious investment plans twenty five million dollars the company will be spending on developing its west qurna field in iraq and bags preferred shares on the my sex work some of the best performing ones are more than five percent and it's the highest level since summer two thousand. in the us the markets are looking for direction dow jones still maintaining called the dynamics after a very strong session one point seven percent in the previous session on choose day in europe trading is drawing to a close with a foot see shuts down no one not show was very involved of terror as you all day long but accept one point two percent driven by banking shares which are bankers are worth three point eight because and now let's take a look at commodities they still remain high although we are seeing a correction are to us inventories have shown that they increased which was

expected therefore we see correction in the world price but oil prices are still high this. reporting the russian ruble which continued meeting on the currency markets today versus the dollar versus the euro whereas the dollar was gaining at the close actually at the end of the session in russia at least on the positive outlook but the federal chairman ben bernanke he gave to the u.s. economy. billionaires in russia complaining about this new robin hood tax introduced or suggested rather by. luxury tax on the rich now they're complaining this will really lead to a social gap and social instability let's watch this report by. it's revolutions like nineteen seventeen but when you get social closeness it gives the child a toy could sort of warm beer on russia's rich street billionaires don't like the

luxury tax and they found billions of loopholes. a charge of expensive calls brings in peanuts a tax on look three housing soviet pensioners with moist flats and anyway corrupt bureaucrats will steal any earlier as they claim is that of threatening tycoons with new problems says their rejoined wimbledon takes chief one off tax then amnesty to all those who bring their own least all dishonest wealth but from abroad one thousand seven thousand means that it was no wisdom. to raise tensions he would begin. text because what he means that she takes some time it's a beautiful lady as well as my takes takes if i make a mistake for him but i would like to be clear as in. all their capital sort of the money would help with the help around the world so they should bring it

here they should pay once upon a time tax eve they will pacers ten per cent it will be more money otherwise people will be too much pleaded and he will going to keep a sense of grounds and points this thing taxes and the constant threat of new obituary charges is more just one of the four hundred private jets owned by russians all bridges did in this country the rich propose the complete opposite to get the government welfare backs just remind our viewers introducing a luxury tax was present. during his pre-election campaign that's the way the markets look at this hour we will be back in fifty five minutes time with an upgrade. thank you.