benefits you know what. they are going to get out of that waiting for that are you moved why do kids from their school in the hope to hear you know where i was living . area. of you well this is not you know my life it's our land it's our home syria ok we cannot we we don't want to leave our homes we don't want to leave a lot of schools we just want to leave peacefully people have been telling us that the sky is to leave their homes across the city water shortages food shortages power cuts are extremely common winces here and it's hard for some people to even heat their homes survival here in the city of homs has already been taken back to basics the city that's been at the heart of the arrest is much like the rest of the country right now divided you can travel from one area to another head some streets simply t.j. enjoy. the armed conflict in syria right now is

looking increasingly like a civil war in the towns and cities like homs to the shame resistance is in the rules and sounds as if people have fled the city can't imagine anyone wanting to live here now not everyone can leave across the country right now civilian safety is hugely under threat outbreaks of violence seen cayle sick and fractured and cool between the conflicting sides it's the people like this who is suffering under who are not completely with with their government. and one hundred percent and we are not getting to know what they are doing. the gun people they are giving us that they are killing our future our they are killing our people and our children this is the devastating reality as syria's uprising hit me that the government all the opposition seem willing to lay down their arms and proceed dialogue. and say these

people are left waiting taping and praying that they or their children might be the next person to the courts in the crossfire. from the city of homs in syria. he's also posting updates online you can follow her blog at www dot com firsthand accounts of the situation in syria. meanwhile the arab league remain split over a recent proposal by qatar to send troops into syria is the gulf region asia times correspondent pasch abbas says the arab league is not motivated by democracy there as the group itself mostly consists of oppressive wanted. to forget the old days rejean sorrow doctor sees that the local populations have no possibility at all for political expression some of them their own populations like in the case of the rate seventy percent shiite population they're treated as second rate citizens

and now we have the persian gulf monarchies trying to teach the world lessons on the markets but the whole sink the whole scheme is sampson literally upsurge starts with so can we imagine if we had what we seen in syria inside easter saudi arabia for it's. all because no calls for democracy no calls for deposing the government like qatar is saying nowadays imagine not not only imagine look at what happened sobering sister beginning of the pro-democracy protests in manama almost a year ago there were oppression was total with help from saudi arabia and the emirates so the same persian gulf monarchies were saying now to the world we must intervene only behalf of people in syria they would smash their own people in any possibility of an arab spring in any of the six special goals mark. so the head crippled the stability of the eurozone bailout fund downgraded top bankers say it's

time to do without credit ratings else quiet a few minutes. to the indian government allowing foreign retailers into the country's market reinvestigate local business community has the strength to withstand such huge competition. iran says it won't resort to terrorism to avenge the latest murder of one of its nuclear scientists the speaker of the iranian parliament accused of using such tactics in a desperate bid by israel on the us to stop terror arms atomic program number of western officials have spoken out recently about possible military action against iran and his own team is going to sleep reports many in israel say that the war against the country may already be on the way. from this rather spartan recording studio in jerusalem one israeli jew has been reaching out to people in iran for fifty two years ties between tel aviv in tehran off

a bit in but it's never stopped menasha amir from reading the news in farsi every night and hosting a weekly show for listeners in the persian world to share the views he thinks around a million rain ians tune in and the topic they most want to talk about the possibility of a foreign attack on iran and they are very much afraid that the iranian nuclear installations will be bombed by a foreign powers where they're israel or the united states or any other country but it's not only the rain ians who are suspicious of israel or america taking action people here in israel sense something's in the air you can see signs of wink and nod from israeli officials when talking about it israel is signaling to the world. if the world doesn't do anything if the wall doesn't call for more fierce actions or more crippling sanctions quoting the secretary of state clinton then israel would take the initiative and strike alone some wonder if israel hasn't already

declared an unofficial war on terror and what suspicions raised further after the assassination of another iranian nuclear scientist earlier this month while on his way to work putting everything together it is clear that whoever it is but if someone or somebody or some agency is very successful in infiltrating understanding and last sabotaging the iranian nuclear project the attack is the latest in a series of mysterious accidents linked to iran's nuclear program two aircraft accidents in the space of three years scientists disappearing equipment damaged and computer viruses unleashed and the fingers pointing at israel. and the united states this is a very. respectable grammar nation but. iran has. you. mind would

not be your. adding fuel to the fire the plan for israel and the united states to conduct the biggest joint military drill before the end of the year it would see thousands of american troops deployed in israel. it's the most blatant find that in attacks coming but no one in israel will come on record and say there is a covert war on iran all talk of an israeli strike is limited to the airwaves r t. but iran isn't a threat to anyone and the tension around its nuclear program is by washington so says the brown backer of the war the coalition. the united states government has created an artificial crisis that's first and foremost it's a manufactured crisis iran is complying with the. iran does not have a nuclear weapon iran is not threaten its neighbors iran has not started a war with any of its neighbors israel on the other hand has hundreds of nuclear weapons and unlike iran refuses to sign the nuclear nonproliferation treaty does

not. specters into its country so there's not really a nuclear menace or a nuclear danger from iran so what is the cause what's the cause of the crisis of the artificial crisis the real goal is the united states government has embarked on a course of extreme economic aggression against iran with the hope that by creating economic suffering economic isolation economic misery that part of the population will rise up or become disenfranchised with the government so that the u.s. can do as it has in history carry out regime change. what is more news and comment twenty four hours a day at r.t. dot com has a taste of what's on life you right now in the run up to the presidential election minister and. has invited russia to engage in extensive dialogue. in what's needed to move the country forward you can read it's been printed in full on our

website also online. and leading human rights campaigner suing barack obama over controversial new law that enables the indefinite detention torture of americans. forced the pulitzer prize winner to take on the president. is he. the official altie allocation. from the.

video. and. the palm of your. they were off today it has been raining down on the struggling usa ratings giant standard and poor's about slashing the great of the bailout fund after the agency stripped france and austria of their rights to aaa ratings by skipper since he was left without enough top ten economies to guarantee its aaa status well financial analyst doubt its agencies are not impartial the role that the u.s. based radio agencies have played since the greek crisis erupted in december of zero nine has been what many people here see as a brazenly political role and it happens to be that they preemptively downgrade

greek sovereign debt just when european leaders in march of two thousand and ten were coming to an agreement in principle they downgraded to junk status forcing a massive sell off of greek debt by pension funds i don't think they're there on biased i don't think they're the independent agencies that they portray themselves to be they enjoy a very curious role in being blind to the. problems in companies like g.e. just before the september two thousand and eight explosion there the calls to global systemic shock and as well the the background to the whole subprime crisis they were asleep at the switch many times when it comes to the interest of the wall street banks the so-called gobs of money banks like goldman sachs or others they tend to be rather lenient and when it comes to the interest of european institutions they tend to be rather aggressive which leads many europeans that i talk with to think that the rating agencies are simply an extension of the u.s.

political apparatus the treasury and wall street. well the head of the european central bank is now calling on investors and regulators to ignore the ratings agencies france maintains that its own downgrade is nothing but at least says adequate governance is to blame but later we talked to alan sorow founder of the political think tank equality and reconciliation who believes the single currency in the united your opponents takes to begin with. the ability deceive others and when you look at the reality of the past twenty years the european union has changed very little by the way if we remember back then we were still having referendums on such decisions so the mass treat referendum got through but in the second referendum on the lisbon treaty the french voted no in arland they voted no it was rejected by the people then forcibly voted in by m.p.'s it is clear that this representative democracy actually represents no one at all today the european

union is scared of the people and of consulting the people bureau people union was meant to bring down unemployment bring prosperity security but instead it brought on employment the adoption of the euro inflated prices it caused the industrialization especially in france it may be better for germany but it's an economic disaster the euro is exploding the single currency is a technical in possibility a europe of twenty seven countries cannot work we see that this huge thing is crumbling and is only brought negative effects practically with merkel and sarkozy meeting every three days it's getting ridiculous now there's a summit every three days it's no good it's close to collapse. and they can watch the full interview with political activist around and around fifteen minutes time ahead r.t. . america occupy wall street activists will descend on capitol hill later on

tuesday whether or not. his hope could be the largest gathering yet it's of four months since the first anti corporate protests grew into a nationwide phenomenon going to check out of course now on how young americans feel frustrated by the power wielded by the giant corporations. the dream of starting their own business may stay just a dream for most young americans armed with college degrees and loaded with hefty student loans they enter a marketplace dominated by giant corporations robert porter is a pharmacist he works for a company that provides help to poisoning victims he says he's glad to have a job that pays his bills but sees no chance he could start a business on his own now we sort of used to be able to go out like you said graduate start a business have a drugstore but i think those days are or are going away rapidly and personally i

don't know any young pharmacist that are starting their own business like that competition c.b.s. radio all the wal-mart target there's no way there's no way a new pharmacist to compete no way and it's a shame in the last few decades thousands of independent pharmacies have been gobbled up by a handful of drug store chains this one is still standing just steps away from a c.v.s. its owner says they survive because he gives his customers would big chains can't give you a homely atmosphere but even dedicated pharmacists like hussein experienced giants stepping on their toes hussein remembers how easy it was to start a pharmacy some thirty years ago it was a lot easier back then to stay and survive thirty years ago they could just go in and easily open a pharmacy now now young pharmacist really they already come with

a lot of student loans and they are. really can model the kind of money his two daughters are also pharmacists i would much rather be in my own business or at least a family business most of us say naps fellow graduates ended up working for big companies to at least have a steady paycheck none of them started their own business it has now become a common tendency for the young in the us stark difference with the eighties but many can't find even such relative stability these days according to a report by peter hart research associates a quarter of workers under the age of thirty five in the us can't pay their monthly bills another study shows the average net worth of those under thirty five in nineteen eighty-four was three times higher than it is now for the same age group millions of people's quality of lives is there really

a shift for the profits of a handful of the immense stores and corporations for most young people in the you are starting their own business isn't even a consideration most of them would be happy just to have a job that at least pays their bills many don't even have that this is the poorest young generation in the us of decades and the question many as is what kind of future can they build and what will they leave for the next generation i'm going to check our reporting from washington our team. now at what's making headlines around the world this hour italian authorities say the number of people missing in the italian cruise line disaster has risen to twenty nine as worsening weather conditions in the vest q.f. it six bodies have been recovered from the wreckage of the ship that struck rocks and capsized off the west coast meanwhile the government says it will declare a state of emergency to avert a potential environmental disaster for the reports of

a possible few leak. al-qaeda militants have seized control of the yemeni city of radda one hundred miles south of the capital sana'a they overran positions and laid siege to the prison two hundred inmates some of whom took up arms and in the fight al qaeda have previously taken control of a string of towns in the country's south for the capture of rada grants them a foothold closer than ever to the capital. remaining in the prime minister has warned that violence will not be tolerated as i think the protests against government budget cuts continue thousands of demonstrators in bucharest repeatedly clashed with police since thursday nearly sixty injured activists what he calls and threw stones and bob homes and offices tension has reached a boiling point over public wage cuts slashed benefits and violence but corruption government. republican candidate jon huntsman has

abandoned his u.s. presidential campaign door seeing mitt romney running every restaurant to take on barack obama announcement comes less than a week after huntsman are not paying their directions in new hampshire. the central despite extensive complement huntsman's withdrawal from the presidential race by publicly candidates. aren't going to. when india decided to allow more direct foreign investment in the nation's massive retail industry the move caused huge controversy while the government remains convinced that competition will strengthen the country's food supply chain local businesses are afraid it will impact badly on them and spirit in our ports. this dry food store has been set the end there saying chalons family for six generations it's one of the many small retail stores that have been operating in this market in old delhi for hundreds of years ago one of the six generations of our family grew

financially and provided us with everything but now seeing child one's way of life could be at risk after years of pressure the indian government decided to allow foreign multibillion retailers namely grocery stores access to india's market now the likes of tesco and walmart could finally have access to one of the fastest growing middle classes in the world until now india only allowed single brand foreign retailers like reebok to enter the country even though the indian economy opened up more than a decade ago economists here argue that the country needed at least five years to build up its domestic multi brand retail sector before allowing foreign competition into the country but now politicians argue that it might be the perfect time for foreign companies to enter india's five hundred ninety billion dollar retail sector the politicians behind the push say that farmers can make more money and consumers will pay less for food if these stores are allowed into india these retailers could

provide organization to india supply chain by cutting out unnecessary middlemen president obama and other western leaders have also been putting pressure on india to allow their stores to open in the country arguing that they could provide jobs to millions of indians but small business owners still argue that it's an idea that would jeopardize their way of life but what do you think big stores open up small businesses will not be able to compete with and they will find it hard to survive so this is a conspiracy against us to shut us down and open big ships but we will not allow this to happen in india a lot of the small business will be swallowed by wilma like the way small fishes are wreaking by the big fishes in the sea these small family run businesses will be completely destroyed jeopardizing the financial situation of fam. children for now however opposition within india has stalled the decision from being finalised store owners like singh chauhan are watching the debate closely wondering if his family's business and the old delhi that he's known his whole life will suddenly change.

this is an attempt to destroy the businessmen in india but we will not allow this to happen in india resisting outsiders from potentially destroying his family's tradition preassure either r.t. delhi india. well that's crossing with business that's now joined katie. welcome to the business program the ruble has ignored warnings from the fitch writing agency which has lowered its focus for russia and even game develop one percent against the dollar monday as exporters sold ahead of the taxpayer it make an i pod to sell from d.c.b. capital says future prospects for the ruble remain stable despite the economic uncertainty. we've got still very conservative metrics for the most conservative on the wall probably. the current account is the strongest during the

last several years a five point eight percent of g.d.p. he will refuse current account surplus is so difficult not to have capital outflow it leaves here it won't be that strong cold will for their abode you to your system capable of flowing the back off approach and presidential elections and provocateur dissimilarly for their ability to shifted from february to march april is the list but there are still quite a few on the ruble in the field for the year at least. ok let's see what's happening in the markets boil thouse and it is going crude is trading yes three day high after fall to push for horsemen of an iranian import ban on saudi arabia's oil minister was reported as saying the world's biggest exporter wants to keep prices at one hundred dollars a barrel see what's happening over in asia they are on the rise to stop after china's g.d.p. exonerated at

a faster than expected post in the fourth quarter which means as far as investors are concerned and that's how the war is over the european debt crisis happen put aside for the time being but of course the main concern china as we talk figures and industrial output also beat expectations and here in russia the markets remained resilient to negative news from europe with strong all supporting the sentiment on monday we all just finished over half a percent higher on the my sense is up. a notch i like to ask how far from the three capitals those investors will now be closely watching news coming out of the u.s. and china. i think your factors that are it will be closely watched the u.s. and chinese macro naturally with u.s. markets closed on monday there is no data coming out of the states. what effect is driving market further on obviously of u.s. market is the one that held up in the developed countries own and in this region

will be looking for any signs of weakness in the us america fed falls behind chinese marker also work with you weaker and obviously that have a negative read across for of a projection of global growth for two thousand and twelve. seven stolz gold mining subside remove gold starts trading on the london stock exchange this day as an independent public company but experts warn it may lack liquidity as it is just ten percent of its stock the company's main competitors have biggest trading on the bourse with polygraphs gold and poly metal often fifteen percent and fifty percent respectively but growing gold prices may push no gold capitalization of a three billion dollar mug the company operates eight mines in four countries with the all the projects in the early stages of development a morgan stanley wrist a fund has agreed to buy the largest mall in russia's northern capital some pages about the deals worth around one point one billion dollars according to sources close to the transaction the galleria mobile cost three hundred eighty million

dollars to build and two years ago morgan stanley will buy it from a group of investors from paddocks done who refused to be identified if the shopping center changes hands successfully the deal would be the largest in russia's real estate market and that's often i'll be back in about fifty five minutes with more for you.

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start on t.v. dot com. welcome back reminder of our top stories rush to the u.n. a new resolution on syria calling on all sides to hope with violence council members will discuss the text then two on tuesday the troubled country remains deadlocked in violence. iran says it won't retaliate for the death of one of its nuclear scientists which it claims on israel speak of uranium parmenter used tell of it using tactics in a desperate bid to stop terror runs atomic program. and occupy activists just gathering to take a prophetic conk of capitol hill anger grows among young americans with new prospects it's four months since the first anti corporate protests grew into

a nation wants to nominate. the next we talked to political activist and then he says united europe isn't feasible concept for his native completely revamp its policies. today we're joined by alice or all he's a french writer and founder of the political think tank equality and reconciliation and he's considered by many as a controversial figure in france for his political stand that more often than not goes against the status quo and for comments that push the envelope on topics that are generally considered taboo well mr thanks very much for joining us today my first question is what is it that you dislike so much about the french a status quo that you feel compelled if you will to go against it. first of all we do longer believe in the massacre.