in the. stories that shaped the week here on our diplomacy versus a year since the uprising began syria remains of hot water with peace efforts they're being challenged by war propaganda and terror attacks. the loving father called in a tragedy the media's take on the u.s. soldier accused of turning a sleeping afghan village into a bloodbath with washington yet again sorry for what happened. anniversary arrest for occupy wall street protesters as they had more heavy handed policing leads many want to drink if western nations practice the democracy they'd prefer.

thanks for joining us this sunday five o'clock here in moscow i'm karen taraji a car bomb has reportedly exploded in a residential area in the syrian city of aleppo there were similar attacks on saturday in the capital of damascus which killed twenty seven people and injured over one hundred others our middle east correspondent paula slayer has more. state television is reporting that a car was parked in a wizard intially area not far from a security building now according to police the car was parked behind a security barrier and a tow truck was in fact on the way to tova car a wave when it exploded and now at this stage we have no indication in terms of numbers of people killed and injured but we are hearing reports that the casualty count is high at the same time witnesses on the scene so that they heard an exchange of gunfire immediately after this car blast today's blast is the third

last in two days syrians are gathering at the site of saturday's twin blasts which killed some twenty seven people in damascus the capital city this blast on sunday is a third loss in two days and it happens in aleppo as i said the same city where on the tenth of february some twenty eight people were killed also in twenty last there targeted the security building so there has been this string of suicide bombings happening in syria over the past few weeks and months and the opposition also calling for mass demonstrations in syria on sunday to mark the one year anniversary of the uprising against the syrian president bashar assad the actual date was thursday and on that day there were huge demonstrations was the country parallel to this violence on the ground there is a different kind of war that is taking place and that is the information war with

many people saying that what happens in terms of how networks are covering the syrian story is nearly sealing the conflict as my colleague reports. 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 the syrian lives griffy claude's freelance investigative journalist from damascus says he's found what he thinks is proof of media. elation of the conflict in syria and this video from the syrian town of homes a camera focuses on the city's or 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

camera latest videos on the 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 and the corner we see a little knock him. when you should tell bashar good will punish you don't talk about his word ok let's hear his will again after some thirty minutes away train the crew starts to get nervous and let's go a little beer maybe hold can read no we need al-jazeera wildlife and al-jazeera eventually the girl will forget some details because punish you the shore and your children in this footage we see danny holmes activist known for his exclusive reports from the very epicenter of the conflict his fifth airing to go live on c.n.n. he's relaxed and calm. and there is no shooting until he asks for it was

so did you choose a target. no worries just deal. with the. solution i seem to hold dear. tell the regime buildings collapsed and we're taking buildings why. there could be many to hunger again here in the last hour. two hundred reality or no you've got. to know we got the big deal. here to do is to become journalists trying to make a chaise as hard as possible. to produce but not everyone is happy about it politics of the channel we're changing with the words. on high. leftist and progressive was such as we're not going to be this welcoming any more

obviously the car is a decided to shape a picture of the news a little more than we used to. always a mistake. well known war correspondent our leadership used to report for al-jazeera from the world's conflict hot spots but syria has become the rubicon he couldn't cross he mentioned armed groups fighting they came stuff starts army and his bosses and all he needed education he has just resigned because of biased coverage he says it's like you go for a. solution leave syria. egypt whatever for example the revolution in buffer and saudi arabia if this is just a proxy it's a proxy used by but it's the right question so the government by going to the west to fuel this war. was more and more proof emergence of the international media is involved in the arab spring revolutions the question remains open to what extent do

they influence events and how much responsibility do they therefore share for what follows. r t beirut lebanon the un team is set to visit damascus to discuss the deployment of international monitors to syria as comes as part of our special envoy kofi annan peace mission and pushing for a cease fire and political dialogue between the assad government and the opposition dr marcus papadopoulos an analyst from the all my magazine politics first says announce mission should be held for its balance stance toward the crisis. i think first of all kofi annan said mission in syria needs to be uprooted supply the international community to have an approach the situation in syria we have impartiality he spoke consume members of the syrian government's including president assad's and also members of the syrian opposition the same cannot be said of. the american british and french governments who have great regime change their policy from the very beginning and at the same time

a great deal of caution needs to be. so when western governments it is going to be very military intervention could be. next on syria might be you know cruise missiles fired from syria but some is a good possibility it could be on smuggled into syria as the french troops in libya last year still to come in a few minutes a grieving mother and then angry. when you look at the through the can intimidate would be anything to silence at least a few feet think she has to convicted retro bombers are executed and bella ruth's relatives as well as human rights groups say their trial was too great to be fair. and as economic sanctions are piled on iran be here to backfire with the spike in oil prices europe may be forced to rely on emergency start parts. short on money emotionally traumatized and

a down on luck father of two all part of the media's profile of an american soldier accused of carrying out a massacre in southern afghanistan sergeant robert bales has now been flowchart flown back to the united states by the u.s. military amid calls for him to face trial in afghanistan and as you can reports in his wake yet more apologies. 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 has just one bad apple. this incident is tragic and shocking and does not represent the exceptional character of our military and the respect that the united states has for the people of afghanistan this is not who we are in no way does he represent. the ethics and morality of the american serviceman and

service woman and i think afghans understand that but afghans don't seem to be fine that all. the rage and humiliation felt quite a 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 presumptions do not represent the values of the vast majority of coalition forces the 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 a loss on. afghans film selves humiliated insulted and what 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 keep the place. in afghanistan for another three is how many more people will die how many more instances like this the only solution to this is to bring the troops no man for these for these governments just opens a vein and in countries where they have absolutely no rights when the copious apologies handed out by the administration don't seem in. when to appease war critics back home let alone the afghan people and. the whole idea of country occupying their country and disturbing their country creating hundreds of thousands of refugees and suffering this it ever get to

a point where. about the qur'an is rather minor to some of the other problems that we have ever 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 extremists of all kinds used to it new people to their ranks those new recruits go out to kill not even the most heartfelt apologies can change the minds of people dead set on revenge it becomes a vicious circle that breeds even more danger spreading far beyond the borders of afghanistan i'm going to shutdown reporting from washington. coming up in the program the illegal immigrants traveling to the u.k. in search of better. they are often finding themselves sleeping on the streets with no job or money stuck in a legal no man's land. and friends no more egypt's freshly elected as lama

stampedes say israel is their number one enemy and seek to cut all ties with tel aviv. achieve man convicted of last year's deadly metro bombing in the belorussian capital have reportedly been executed there's no official confirmation except state media reports and a court writer sent to one of the men's mothers she believes her son was scapegoated by the authorities. but you do they think they can intimidate the police into silence but my sense is they feel. exposing their who kind of investigation and trial otherwise they could even if he's him along the way he sees them and join him and me. from the very beginning of human rights observers have questioned whether or not the men were given a fair trial this is just the last straw in the already strained relations when bella has stayed in the european union in fact a lot of the human rights organizations of the servers along with the chairman of the european parliament have said requested to the belarusian president. to grant

clemency to the two convicted men but those requests i were disregarded in fact a lot of the european of the european human rights observers and officials have long been looking in belarus and questioning the officials approach it to human rights freedom of speech and their treatment off the opposition this has in fact still led to a diplomatic route after bellerose fall dowd's its investors from several of the european countries and in retaliation the european union has also recalled all of their ambassadors from belo rose the european union foreign affairs chief catherine ashton already said that she strongly condemns the executions and she was seconded by the chairman of the european parliament martin short also said that he is horrified at the news and this is just about to worsen the situation and the relations between bellers and the european union even further parties are reporting

there. are dozens of people have been arrested in new york as scores protesters marched to mark occupy wall street six month anniversary police swept through the birthplace of the movement as a party park as hundreds of demonstrators began to erect tents of the past six months occupy rallies nationwide happenings in their police say with patrols and tear gas at peaceful protests. but the actions at home are in stark contrast washington's words in condemning other nations which don't match or tried to get the marcus wareing apart nine explains. the u.s. and its european allies have many things in common security politics and a familiar practice of outsiders about yours of democracy the running people have a universal right to assembly and free speech this is the precincts approach of human rights and about democracy there is a big step towards democracy rule of law human rights these are our founding and we

believe these must be respected by the egyptian authorities in russia we've seen crackdowns on civil society groups as western leaders wag their finger around the world. wouldn't the times include of course have been used to well public protests at home. right police handcuffs and iron fists have repeatedly been used against unarmed demonstrators in greece spain and london where thousands flood the streets to protest against austerity measures and unemployment they should focus on getting their own house in order and practice what they preach rather than noticing about seen over countries and trying to you know grandstand on an international scale rather than deal with you know they are there are very serious democratic deficit on the other side of the atlantic uprisings against economic inequality and

corporate greed have left countless occupy wall street activists covered in blood temporarily blind. and behind bars the movement is currently planning to draw tens of thousands of demonstrators to the upcoming g eight and nato summit in may. but this week the u.s. military is unveiling its latest non-lethal weapon to members of the press. it felt like opening up the door almost next to this from about my sternum to my. new active denial system can repel crowds using an electromagnetic bean that delivers a blast of intense heat up to one kilometers away without a sound a smell or even a warning the weapon promises to disperse crowds and reinforce security while the military weapon isn't currently intended to be used by police critics say ray guns like water cannons could eventually be rolled out in the land of the free we are

seeing an intensification of repression because people are challenging the system and challenging it in europe the challenge to get in the united states and it's easy for our leaders to point the finger somewhere else rather than take responsibility here in america do anything differently lecturing others on democracy and human rights has become a branch of western foreign policy discourse that claims to be based on the highest of standards but as recent years has shown it's a lot easier to scold others when everything is why. nice protestors if only for injured students in europe might suggest that their leaders do a bit more before hunting to be a teacher of democracy. artsy new york and we've got plenty more lined up for you on our website our kids are probably going to have their for the latest news or comment here's

a taste of what's already behind as your friend you are saying you have a late night hotel called five excuses chances are these are terrorists at least that's according to a new pamphlet issued by the u.s. homeland security. and the emerald isle entertainment across the capital as moscow joins hundreds of thousands of people around the world celebrate st patrick's day festival footage is that. teatime column. this week the world wide banking communication network swift cut links with iran as part of tough economic sanctions employed by the u.s. and its allies the standoff over talk runs nuclear program is driving oil prices up and may force america and britain to dip into domestic reserves but as our sara for at the explains not every country can rely on such a safety net. bain is among the biggest importers a rainy an oil and all that saying when the sanctions come into force in july

spain have until then supplied to sources of crude supply but a bad all around facing a real risk to the country that until now has been fueled by iranian oil. prices are on the rise and there are fears that they're about to be can't even higher with the iranian oil invoke a looming the e.u. in case ban comes as the west's been making waves runs nuclear program it take that sitting around oil revenues in the country to the bargaining table was countries like france and britain in fourteen year very small percentage of iranian oil and said who said the van is the country struggling the west economically right now spain greece and italy but again to feel the effects of the sanctions the most we have things we can treat your trash if you wish to speak. to the foreign minister actually said if you check if each person yourself feel sick

even if. you could hear about the fact you can't be forced to make the decision once you we're told that in a healthy economic situation a rise in oil prices might be problematic coming at a time when spain is on the brink of a second recession and is proving a nightmare for the population. it's terrible that we should pay for decisions taken in brussels is not known to conform but certainly not for a simple residence. certainly should trigger a rise in prices we should follow the example of the us to tighten our belt and keep the issue of nuclear weapons a punch to revive our economy. tends to come fears about it's a rise in prices have been made so you arabia says it's good enough oil to make up for the loss of around supplies when the in bug. she's like spring will still be paying the price of last trade with iran and the cost of replacing those oil

contracts ever likely spin imports of oil from iran have increased since he backed libyan war now the prospect of his thirty's with iran is causing huge. new war prices collation students can be corrected the problems will come if. you can see. how countries like spain elect at the mercy of a volatile situation one wants to see ignites. r.t. . age of three cellular laurels of parliament this week declare israel its number one enemy it also voted to expel tel aviv's ambassador hold gas suppliers and wants to revise all relations with israel after attacks on gaza last week of locked in a from the jerusalem post believes things are only just beginning to heat up. the more islamists take power in egypt the worse relations will get between the two countries because islamists have never had an interest in peace and sue for

cooperation with israel they've only been interested in damaging use rail and actually seeking its destruction in their overall ideology the sudden lifting of the old governments and that sudden. if it's victualling of these governments in societies like egypt where islamists have been preparing for decades to seize power will more or less guarantee the fact that the islamists the dangerous elements will seize power seize power and i think that israel views this development with a great amount of concern for the near future opposition protesters in russia launched a new rally on sunday over a recently aired t.v. documentary criticizing their motives and funding organizers also called for a million strong march on the eve of latino portents inauguration but today's turnout only attracted a few hundred people are scum office there are several hundred people have gathered

. on sunday near the headquarters of most state t.v. channels in russia brought just being against the film recently shown by one of the sneaky generals in n.z. opposition film this is an unsanctioned rally yet another one this weekend the police have been calling on the protestors here in your us duncannon not to block the entrance to the t.v. center several people have been arrested in fact it's quite hard to say at the moment how many would be several dozen you can probably hear people are chanting anti government and the government slogans this is where you always want to be opposition leaders were just didn't seem just. a lot of our leader also left the branch right movement was arrested here as well. don't authorize these people to move away from the end of us banking i want it to

this size only to do so. as they said it's all about doing themselves their basic english here the crowd doesn't want to leave in fact this made was more accusations of provocations of the of the last usually happen. around some of the protests rallies or you get this kind of reporting from the are stunned and i think our help keep us up to date on the protest. illegal immigrants travelling to the u.k. in search of a better life or finding that it may not be the land of plenty they had hoped for some spend all their money to get there before finding themselves homeless and stuck in a complex legal system unable to work but are unable to return home as archie's ever been found out it looks like nothing more than a dumping ground squalor plain to see harder to spot the signs of life this is what forty illegal immigrants call home under

a motorway bridge in london's outskirts penniless and without sanitation the place is infested with drugs disease and destitution many risk their entire families fortune to get here dreaming of the riches that await instead they found a nightmare the cover they are looking for a better life they've been told in fact they've been sold the fact that if you come to the u.k. . it's like the streets are going to be paved with gold this man paid traffickers in india over fifteen thousand dollars to smuggle him to britain in the back of a lorry like most he destroyed his passport when he got here to make people pay people to. but it means he now can't escape even though he wants to he was promised he'd find plenty of work money and accommodation but he's now trapped in poverty worse than he left behind the hope i have been largely of the law. i

don't know. where do you sleep. only sliver have a look at all it's been and in your eyes when we have no official identity and then like laugh in a stuck in a bureaucratic no man's land britain won't deport them unless they can prove who they are and where they came from each case has to be dealt with individually and some can be complex with many not having travel documents or not wishing to comply with the documentation process in the cases of indian nationals we continue to work with the high commission to speed up the time it takes to return them to their home country. nearly thirteen thousand illegal immigrants left the u.k. voluntarily last year a quadruple in numbers over just six years such is the desperation to leave this car park east to be a busy pickup spot for manual labor but now there's nothing this is where the men

wait looking for work every morning hoping to be picked up and paid for a day's labor day like most days they wait isn't this before the downturn was earning up to three hundred pounds a week now he's lucky to get fifteen pounds a day doing jobs never thought he'd stoop to older guys india all thinking about you know in england you know. running through much money but they don't know what happened here because the reality reality is there. as we didn't you know do in india. from a good family the men are expected to send money back to their families in india no wonder most were reluctant to appear on camera after bennett our team london. i'll be back with a recap of our top stories and a few minutes.