no apologies from the nato for the killing of eighteen civilians most of them children in the coalition a strike in afghanistan also. something happens. like a kid's fairy tale russia's president on a trade trip to germany was the west again. on the korean peninsula peaceful talks are the only solution. and. only female prime minister margaret thatcher has died following a stroke he takes a look at how life and legacy. international news commentary analysis and reports this is art. a

roadside bomb has killed at least nine people in afghanistan that it's the latest in a series of violent attacks in the country meanwhile nato has still not claimed responsibility for the death of eight hundred civilians including eleven children coalition is strike over the weekend local officials say be requested a nato bombing run against the taliban but a residential area was called in the blog present consommé who strongly condemned the killings and banned afghan security forces from calling for strikes support for the u.s. led operation is losing popularity among afghans ahead of the twenty fourteen coalition pullout from the country which is damaged you can report on how many tools tactics are shooting its own strategy in the foot. these airstrikes come amid repeated pleas from the afghan government of president karzai to stop killing civilians because in course those words they fuel insecurity and

instability they further alienate afghans from their government which many afghans see as a puppet government so president karzai although he does over his power to allied forces to washington specifically but he clearly understands that those civilian casualties there are more violence in afghanistan and undermine his government even further these are the types of attacks that infuriate the local population like the one in september last year nato killed eight women or in may a nato airstrike killed an afghan family including six children and two women earlier this year president karzai banned afghan forces from calling in airstrikes although his order appears to have been ignored by international forces now these attacks also undermines u.s. efforts to negotiate an agreement to stay in afghanistan past twenty four thirteen or the president karzai appears to be prepared to strike a deal he knows what kind of a backlash it may have been of ghana's spent in order for u.s. troops to stay they need immunity from prosecution under the afghan war and that's

what they are good negotiating now the deadly strikes killing civilians certainly make it hard for the afghans to accept such a deal and allow foreign forces to further operate there with impunity. in a separate incident over the weekend five americans including a diplomat were killed by a suicide bomber while they were delivering books to an afghan school and while the story made headlines in the u.s. media the killing about against civilians is often ignored according to peace activist david swanson even though the news articles about this strike which killed a greater number of people are dominated by paragraphs talking about another strike that killed americans and in particular one woman who was a state department employee who had met john kerry and the u.s. deaths of course are always smaller numbers but they dominate the coverage of americans are not aware of the extent to which this war is essentially a one sided slaughter of helpless people who meant us no ill and has been for over

a decade the debate going on is how many u.s. troops will stay beyond two thousand and fourteen that but the idea that they should be staying until the end of two thousand and fourteen and that we should just accept that has sort of built into all the news coverage in the united states and it's actually rather outrageous because there's been no evidence put forward that there is any sort of progress or any sort of good to be done it and they predictably killed far more innocent people than those alleged to be to be guilty of resistance to an illegal occupation russia's president as one that any further escalation between south and north korea could have catastrophic global consequences but he made putin spoke at the world's biggest industrial fair in hannover i just read all of the has been listening in. president putin then chancellor angela merkel took the stage here at the had over trade fair in one of

the issues that both president putin and chancellor merkel agree on a whole heartedly is that the provocation from north korea must be stopped because it's a war. we are against nuclear development and for the denuclearization of the whole korean peninsula and we're very alone by the escalation that because we are neighbors and if something happens the catastrophe enter novel will seem like a kid's fairy tale i think this trend does exist i'm calling on everyone to calm down just sit at the negotiating table let's solve all the problems which have piled up in recent years just like they had over trade for it's one of the biggest it's the biggest i believe in the world beg your pardon it's the biggest trade fare in the world and there's plenty of things on display from all over the globe but while. we're looking around there they were interrupted by a topless then protest. president putin taking a moment to well cross

a few jokes ago about the protesters saying thanking the ukrainian feminist group for promoting the trade fair here and saying that well as much as he appreciated it it wasn't really the time all the place to be naked while they voiced tone talked about some of the issues that they perhaps don't see eye to eye on cyprus is a major war and president putin saying that the way in which the recent similar period financial crisis was dealt with was really not acceptable that it shouldn't be repeated in the future. so also has a threat of its communist neighbor undertaking another nuclear test is not imminent that's after reports of increased activity at a north korean facility with three previous detonations took place the latest in february now earlier washington delayed a missile test of its own we are fearing it would unnecessarily provoke the north it has however brought forward the deployment of a missile defense system to form

a u.s. territory in the pacific amid a heightened rhetoric can yang has unleashed a barge of a threat and lately reaching reacting to un sanctions and military exercises between south korea and the us it earlier declared a state of war with seoul and threatened to strike u.s. bases in the region for it here's our political analyst. joining me from malaysia mr boy is the announcement to withdraw its work as a from the ok song industrial zone as sign that north korea is a ready to step things up even further. unfortunately so and this site was the last site for enter into korean cooperation of any kind and the north koreans aren't about ninety million dollars a year from this site and that impoverished border region in north korea a lot of workers relied on that money so this is ultimately a major negative for the north korean people in the region now these south korean military has pointed out that on the eastern coast of north korea the jiang has set

up a. missile launch center site basically and over the next few days i think it's very possible that they could back up this this posturing and puffing with with a show force and we should also note that on april fifteenth it's the founder of north korea kim il sung's birthday so usually around this time they they mark this event with great celebrations and the like and they have issued a diplomatic statements to their embassies that they would no longer be able to protect them after april tenth so i think there is a real risk here of seeing some kind of a military component some kind of escalation to this conflict between april tenth and april fifteenth so i think the worlds are certainly on its toes but let's talk about those hoss rhetoric that's been going back and forth the what is pyongyang trying to achieve by threatening the u.s. and south korea. well i think there are several components to dissent and one

component to it is building up the tension and of the psychological warfare building up the tension continuing this this these kind of threats and rhetoric and once it eventually tones down the the rhetoric that it would be or at least thinks it would be rewarded with economic concessions refuted the other main component is to show the world that kim jong il's regime is different from that of his father's and his grandfather's a more aggressive and less predictable and i think this is ultimately a dangerous development. you know it's a little bit about washington because it's delayed its missile but it's still ramping up its military presence in the region a wall what i'm trying to do well i don't really buy buy that line personally because it was a big council there's going to enter continental ballistic missile test that was i think it was an i.c.b.m. on the western coast of the united states because they didn't want to make it seem

like it's provoking north korea but if it really had that intention it wouldn't have flown the b. two bombers nuclear capable bombers it wouldn't have sent an f. twenty two stealth fighters into north korea i think these moves are ultimately very provocative they do nothing to improve the situation to escalate hostilities and i think ultimately it creates animosity and it allows the king john was seen to consolidate power because if in fact a legitimate as their rhetoric that the united states is a. nuclear war on the peninsula so i think a cool heads really must prevail in this situation and i think we just listen to some of the sound bites from president putin i think russia and china i think it's high time that they put the incentive on more and more pressure on dialogue and bringing the parties concerned to the table because it's really getting to a situation where it's so it's a it's going to be very problematic for if this continues. right that was political analyst

a nod ball we thank you very much for your insight and souls on this ongoing story . rides on the way mutually assured to digital destruction of israeli and arab hackers trade saw. a massive exchange of malware all the details in just a couple of minutes. well. technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the future covered. wealthy british style it's time to. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global

economy comes a report on our team. from the international airport in the very heart of moscow. thanks for staying with our team mob with that former u.k. prime minister and the only female to ever hold opposed to died following a stroke at the age of eighty seven to speak more about the life and the legacy of

the woman known as of the iron lady a we're now joined live by dennis macshane former british labor party politician. muslim exchange and she's remembered as being a tough and uncompromising but also respected for getting things done what is your take on monk with edges most notable achievements. innes said she read and written for good or ill she read dynamite as britain which when she became prime minister nice and said you know i really was a country in very very poor shape it had come to the end of a post-war consensus on how the economy should be run and she just threw away the old rule book she was a warrior as a question about that she she liked fighting she liked to fight to get socialism against cult leaders of against trade unions and gets too much state tickets the argentinians over the falklands islands and i think she just introduced

a dose of savage capitalism liberalizing the economy didn't and that definitely profoundly changed the nation how the british people taking the news of her death. she is she was an old lady we you should be pretty ill with all these little strokes and there was a famous film with meryl streep a couple of years ago that showed that there we saw the good old maggie for the falklands war and for being there when soviet communism finished and contributing to that there are others in the north of england because she was a choose a warrior she liked to go to war against what she didn't believe in but she wasn't a healer and she was someone who could pour oil into the old wounds and bring the nation together so in that sense war she's a very important private mr is it necessarily one of the whole of britain will remember with affection or war specially in the north of england the working class

industrial areas which she didn't really a bunch of sympathy for compared to her friends in the city the financial sector the south of england her own middle class values tributes will be coming in condolences will be coming into the british people how will her legacy as a leader influence decision makers of the scene setter. very very important the present government the present prime minister most of his ministers would all proudly say they are the children or maybe the grandchildren of mrs such and they came to age politically when she was prime minister they entered politics because they were impressed her style of leadership and even though she stood down twenty three years ago some of her passions her pro americanism the fact she became increasingly hostile to europe calling at the end virtually for britain to leave europe that really is the position the problem is david cameron is it it's a paradox it today should have waited frog starting

a week of visits to european capitals to try and win friends for his idea of a very different europe but that chariot was just such a type of europe but of course all this had to be cancelled because he'll have to come back to be there to decide how to how to have funeral but that legacy of the need to repro business it gets trade unions to be a good state to be pro-american to be allowed to strong european that legacy really lives on and continues to dominate british politics than as much change from a british labor party politician thank you for your thoughts on that mark with that's her and her legacy. listen israel and jordan have reportedly arrested several activists suspected of taking part in a massive cyber attack on israel thousands of sites have been disrupted by the digital raja with several key israelis of the still down hagel say they'll continue

their on slot in retribution for what they call israeli crimes against arabs as are going to school reports from tel aviv. well what it does not seem like that israel has sustained any palpable damage to its infrastructure there were obvious into the private accounts twitter facebook private accounts of israelis and that was actually when i saw a lot of a lot of spam you can see coming from most of these really counts some of which i had no idea even existed and they were all just information which led to various up palestinian sites israel knew about this attack have claimed that they are prepared for and they have according to their data they actually have employed at least five thousand i.t. specialist in order to prevent the d.d. o. s. attacks of having an effect but it does seem like those preventative measures measures have actually somewhat failed now we do know of course that the palestinian hackers they have. the anonymous groups and they have promised not to

stop just here and by all indications this seems to be just the beginning of their cyber warfare. we are the sons of palestinian people and we feel the pressure of the israeli occupation not only in gaza but also in all the arab and muslim world and as the first retaliation we committed a fast and full scale attack on israeli web sites to warn israel and all its supporters about the threat that hangs over them they have weapons and we have our own means as a result of this attack we receive the names of those who cooperate with israel the aim of the attack was to show the world the true face of israel and its armed forces and we coped with our task we failed to fulfill by using force to resist but we succeeded through the cooperation of palestinians in the whole arab and muslim world so now we make a clear warning to israel in the future be ready for a new larger surprises of

a curious thing about this however is that it seems that these really hackers have been maybe perhaps even more effective than these. government when it came to stopping their d.z.o.'s attacks they have also had some of the palestinian sides and put up a pro israeli messages on there as well as they have delivered the following address saying that for every one have conducted against israel there will be a retribution of dozens similar hacks on the person who conducts those hacking attacks so it does seem like we're looking at sort of a beginning of a new stage this time it's going to be an internet stage in the standoff between palestine and israel. a car bomb has exploded in the syrian capital killing at least a fifteen people and wounding fifty three more the attack occurred near the headquarters of the central bank at one of the main roundabouts in damascus the blast caused extensive damage to buildings and was followed by an intense a barrage of gunfire it's the latest in

a series of car bomb attacks in the capital with the most recent one killing fifty three people in february this comes as a pro-government forces continue their major push to force rebel militias out of the strongholds across the country more on this now with the money well of german reporters specializing in syria who joins us live from berlin this office and right to the car bomb exploded near school what what does that say about the tactics that are now being used in this conflict. well first of all it shows us that the forces you something watch we have a term for we call it more of the bombing they are not in the military they are not even the security forces they are being civilians in our case today a special case they were aiming children at the car bomb exploded right in front of a school where a lot of children where in the moment that people are also children so it shows us the techniques go towards spreading fear. among the civilian population in syria.

death explosions are becoming increasingly frequent in the syrian capital one of the motives behind the attacks in crowded city areas and in this just targeting civilians really. well the technics is to show to show that there is no more spot any more safe and to show the civilians who are to let them feel the fear and the panic that the rebel forces the so-called free syrian army is in charge of from where they can do what they want and again it shows that the valar this divorce. syria is amy the civilians not the army and not the security forces we are in the west always from the media that the regime the so-called rich demas aiming the population this is what we hear nonstop their reality is what kills the bomb explosion of to date right the other way the rebel forces are pushing on the

civilians and they are of. making them assault the government control in damascus. this is a general problem because we are now speaking not about the typical valar of what is going on we are talking about pure terrorism and this pure terrorist makes it very hard for any government we know this also from europe when we have for example a very important official state this it's when cities turn within one night into a high speed curity area so the government what have the syrian government would take to secure every corner in damascus when i was in damascus last year in summer it was already the situation like this that bombs car bombs were exploding and because terrorists are infiltrating the cities and of course they are not just the taking the central bank like today but also very important to see billion spots

like electricity stations schools. the stations and so on so you see it's hard for the government to secure every square meter off the city from terrorist attacks other medicines being forced into the civilian areas to fight the battle because they lead direct for in the polls to attack the actual on me instead head on. i think i see it right the other way because they have foreign support they complain on the international stage off not having international support but the fact is they get a lot of international support and here comes the role of the west when we see what happened today. at this school with the car bomb we see also the dirty hands of the west and off the so-called international community because those residents they are backed by the west. the west always claims that this is a democratic uprising and that they deliver non lethal of material

to the rebel forces but what we see is that this right the other way and of course aiming c. billions is much more easy than aiming professional soldiers in the professional army but the war against the because it's also going on so we see of war on two layers you see the war against the army the army is everywhere the armies trying to protect the civilian courts i witnessed this with my own eyes when i was in damascus that the army try to secure the area and we have rather the forces who try to rule. it don't fight to try to push the ball into those civilian areas to make the army moving in so let me ask you this is the also right i'm running out of time but i just want to briefly ask you this that the brother comes amid u.n. efforts to get the international inspectors into the country to investigate reports of mccoll weapon attacks do you see any connection yet. i don't know really if there is really a strong connection to this but what we can say is that there have been chemical

attacks in the past and the evidence is telling that those attacks where done by the rebel forces not by the syrian army because the state of the syrian army must be crazy to use chemical weapons in this in the conflict in that in its own country and it's in the interest of the rebels to use these chemical weapons to push in more pressure by the international community so there can be a connection on this stage there it should be afraid to off that comes up the truth in that context what means that it comes out who uses those chemical weapons but generally opinion the regime doesn't use those weapons it would be a suicide on the take more or less. german reporter specializing on syria who's been in damascus himself thank you for your time thank you. right up next the sports headlines up from the pasta week with kate patras that's in

a couple of minutes here or not. you know i always try to stay clear of falling into the trap of fake outrage on this program people love to come on t.v. and be angry over this angry over that just to fill air time but trust me saying obama signing into law with that wacky lobster like way he has of writing the bill marked the month santo protection act well it does not put a smile on my face that's for sure not only does this bill effectively bar federal courts from being able to halt the sale or planting of g.m.o. seeds and crops no matter what the health concerns are according to ib times but the bill was also written by senator roy blunt who's gotten sixty four thousand dollars for his political campaign pain from the g o giant monsanto itself so that's what it costs to allow companies to possibly poison millions if not all

americans with risky and proven g.m.o. technology sixty four thousand dollars that's not even enough to buy a decent house sixty four thousand dollars is chump change well citizens of america now you know how much your lives are worth in washington but that's just my opinion . international and in the very heart of moscow.

hello welcome to the r.t.s. ball show another week a roundup of sporting action from russia and around the world with me kate partridge and here's what's coming up. the army marches on it says god be vulgar to kneel to stay eight points clear at the top of the russian premier league with seven matches left to go. plus a family values the biathlon season ends in style for one russian family with brother and sister taking gold in the moscow race of champions. and after an down test got crews into the euro league last eight as group winners but he vowed after losing that defending champions league p.r. costs. a lot less with the kick off with russian footballers tesco moscow maintained their eight point lead at the top of the premier league with

a two no when at home just struggling vulgar because of him but top off brings us all the weekend action. i two first call girls in five minutes at the illusion get steady and were enough to see lenny man beat walgett and clinch their fifth straight league win often elway in the visitors keep it the night it was more sounds freekick go if was quickest to the rebound then five minutes later it was deja vu these time walking along bonds to man his third in four matches but the brazilian managed to get moved twice in stoppage time and if he went it didn't affect the final score to nil as the army go marching on towards their first title in seven years. i too was defending champions in need still lead the chasing back up to edging struggling quilla side where the one meal at that bitter office stadium strike a halt arguably dive to earn a shot from the sport and the brazilian left the goalkeeper no chance.