tv [untitled] January 17, 2012 12:01am-12:31am EST
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that's more details in twenty minutes time. costing live from the heart of the russian capital the year without. russia has circulated a new draft of its resolution on syria to the u.n. calling on all sides to halt the violence security council members will discuss the text later on tuesday but western diplomats say fails to condemn president assets crack down on protesters strongly enough. furthur ports from syria those caught in the middle of the conflict live a life of fear. it's been less than a month since we were last in homes in that time the situation's become even more dangerous and the pressure on the people living here sherry's i suspect were people
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more numbers than at any other heavy tragic death of a foreign journalist killed just here in homs recently served as yet another reminder of the harrowing the precarious situation the people in the city are in the odd way to go but. that's you know what. they are going to jim was waiting for that are you moved by do kids from this school in the hope area where i was living . area. that you will this is not your normal life it's our land it's our home syria ok we cannot we don't want to leave our homes we don't want to leave our 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
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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 here some streets simply t. danger. 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 isn't by the rules and thousands of 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 cooper tween the conflicting sides is the. people like this he was suffering are not conflicted with. government. one hundred percent and we are not getting what they are doing. the young people are. getting as they are getting our future
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they are killing our people over children this is the devastating reality of syria's uprising it means that the government all the opposition seem willing to lay down their arms and proceed dialogue but. the. number of the those who are killed is that. we were accustomed to about twenty people per day being killed about thirty and say these people waiting hate being in praying they call their children sleeping next to the courts in the crossfire. in the city of homs. he's also posting updates online you can follow her blog at r.t. dot com for her first hand accounts of the situation in syria. but the arab league remains split over recent a proposal by qatar to send troops into syria with fears the move could engulf the
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whole region he said times correspondent pesca bass says the arab league is not motivated by democracy in syria as a group itself mostly consists of oppressive monica's. don't forget that all these rejean sorrow doctor says 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 mockers like the whole sink the whole scheme is sampson literally absolute it starts with so can we imagine if we had what we seen in syria inside easter saudi arabia for it's. obviously no cause for democracy no calls for deposing the government like qatar is a you know it's imagine not not only imagine look at what happened sobering sister
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beginning of the pro-democracy protests in manama almost a year ago the repression was total would help from saudi arabia and the emirates so the same persian gulf want to kids who are saying now to the world we must intervene on the behalf of people in syria they would smash their own people in any possibility of an arab spring in any of the six person goes mark. what i said ahead cripple the stability of the euro zone bailout downgraded top bankers say it's time to do without predator ratings quite a few minutes. and there's thousands of children india disappear every year best again what's behind a frightening trend. iran says it won't resort to terrorism to avenge the latest matter of one of its nuclear scientists the speaker of the iranian parliament accused israel and us of using such tactics in a desperate bid to stop tehran's nuclear program well number of western officials
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have spoken out recently about a possible reaction against iran this artie's point to stand out reports many in israel say that war might well 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 their 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 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 since something's in the air you can see signs of wink and
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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 for more crippling sanctions quoting the secretary of state clinton then israel would take the initiative and strike a blow 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 last subaltern the arena nuclear for 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
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computer viruses unleashed and the fingers pointing at israel. and the united states this is a very respectable grumbler nation but. iran has many of them is. of the mind and it's not beyond imagination adding fuel to the fire the plan for israel and the united states to conduct their biggest joint military drill before the end of the year it would see thousands of american troops deployed in israel for you ran it's the most blatant sign 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 air waves policy r.t. jerusalem. iran isn't a threat to anyone and the tension around this nuclear program is fabricated by washington so says brian becker of the antiwar answer coalition. the united states
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government has created an artificial crisis that's first and foremost it's a manufactured crisis aronne 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 allow. inspectors 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
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commentary twenty four hours a day at r.t. dot com here's a taste of what's on the line if you right now in the run up to the presidential election the prime minister and cabinet then put in has invited russia to engage in extensive dialogue. lobbying what's needed the country forward you can read his blueprint in full on our website also online. leading human rights campaigners suing barack obama over controversial nor labels the detention and torture of americans find out what forced the pulitzer prize winner to take on the president dot com. it's.
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the official altie allocation your. touch from the. video. and. the palm of your. on the dot com. blow after blow has been raining down on the struggling euro zone with ratings john standard and poor's now slashing the grade of the region's bailout fund but after the agency stripped france and austria of their prized aaa ratings rescue facility was there without enough top tier economies to guarantee its aaa status fragile and mr frederick william endo says the agencies are not
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impartial. the role that the u.s. based grading agencies have played since the greek crisis erupted in december of zero nine has been what many people here see as a brazenly political rule 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 selloff of greek pension funds i don't think they're 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 call to global systemic shock and as well be the background to the whole subprime crisis they were
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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 levy 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. but the head of the european central bank is now calling on investors and regulators to ignore the ratings agencies france maintains that its downgrade changes nothing but at least says that it could use the governance is to blame when i talk to uninstall rather than the political think tank quality and reconciliation he believes the single currency in the united europe where mistakes to begin with. to deceive other than 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 thought we were still having referendums on
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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 but 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 the european union was meant to bring down unemployment bring prosperity security but instead it brought unemployment the adoption of the euro inflated prices it caused the industrialization especially in france it may be better for germany to do 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 or 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
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a summit every three days it's no good it's close to collapse. before they. can see that interview in full next hour here on r.t. . america occupy wall street activists will descend on capitol hill later on tuesday what organizers hope could be the largest gathering yet it's four months since the first and corporate protests grew into a nationwide phenomena now. on how a 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
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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 are going away rapidly and personally i don't know any young pharmacists that are starting their own business like that competition c.b.s. write it 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
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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 no young pharmacist really they already come with a lot of student loans and they really can model plane that 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 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
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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 life is the minish 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 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. i don't know what's making headlines around the world this hour italian authorities say the number of people missing in the
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italian cruise line disaster has risen to twenty nine as worsening weather conditions in the rescue effort six bodies have been recovered from the wreckage of a ship that struck walks capsized off west coast we want the government says it will declare a state of emergency to potential environmental disaster for the reports of a possible few meek. al qaeda militants have seized control of the yemeni city of raga a hundred miles south of the capital so it overran only positions and it seems the local prison two hundred inmates some of whom took up arms during the fight al-qaeda have previously taken control of a string of towns in the country south of the capture grants them a foothold closer than ever to the capital. demonstrations continue to rage in romania and capital against the government's austerity measures thousands of demonstrators have been caressed repeatedly class since thursday with sixty
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activists wait and threw stones and horrible the purposes of tension only part of a public wage cuts slashed benefits and once put corruption in the government. republican candidate jon huntsman has abandoned his u.s. presidential campaign tossing mitt romney as the best i want to get people like obama announcement comes less than a week after huntsman came third you know one hundred. seventy eight spite extensive campaigning. in the presidential race approved by republican tom bits with from the current. weekly. ten children go missing every single day in india's capital new delhi many end up with slaves or forced to work in the sex industry but has reassured it discovered the figures are actually an improvement over previous years. with almost seventeen million people packed into
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its crowded city streets new delhi is the perfect place for people to get lost but some don't just get lost they disappear that's what happened to raul kumar's twelve year old son ravi he went missing one year ago when he left the house to get his bicycle but never returned. i don't know who took my son away i looked for him everywhere but i couldn't find him. and ravi is far from the only one in delhi alone anywhere from two to five thousand children go missing every year while in india as a whole a staggering eight hundred thousand disappear and it takes a dreadful toll on families kumar hasn't been able to hold down a steady job or stay healthy his only focus is finding out what happened to his son but the answer is likely a grim one most children who disappear in delhi end up as sex workers or slaves a studio but the kids are kept in places where no one will be able to find them
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they're also kidnapped for the organ trade business that don't sion and also to begin with. kumar son like most missing kids in delhi with the word away while playing from a porn neighborhood like this one many family members of missing people say that they believe that they're often ignored by police because they lack money and power and in many cases they're asked to pay a fee if they ever want to see their loved ones again i told the police they only say that maybe my brother is somewhere in the park were sleeping in some temple or staying at a friend's place delhi police say that while they know they face a massive problem things are getting better while in the past eighteen children in delhi would go missing every day this year that number is closer to ten organisations working to help the families of the missing say that while the police need to do more they're overburdened and understaffed. we're also trying to pressure the court to order the police to take serious steps in this issue to watch
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out for the child in railway stations and bus to pose but this comes as little comfort to parents like rao kumar who feels as if he's tried everything he continues to visit ravis untouched bedroom every day holding on to the memories they shared my son used to sleep on this bed with me the house seems empty without him and i don't know way is all his stuff is just whining at home clinging to whatever hope he can that his desperate search for the son he loves will one day and well preassure either r.t. new delhi india. but i doubt whether it is business as. a labor welcome to the business program the ruble has ignored warnings from the fitch rating agency which is lowered its forecast for russia it even gained around
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one percent against the dollar monday as exporters so foreign currencies ahead of the tax period nicolay pulled goose off from day to be capital says future prospects for the ruble remain stable despite the economic uncertainty. metrics for. the war 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. difficult lot of capital outflow it leaves here it won't be that strong cold war for their abode you keep your system capable of flaw in the back off approach and presidential elections traditionally for there will be shifted from february to march april. but. if you and there will be first call for the year at least. ok let's have a look at the markets fall fast and it's gaining crude is trading in their three
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day high after fault falls from pulls much of an iranian import and saudi arabia is all minister was reported to sign the world's biggest exporter wants to keep prices at one hundred dollars a barrel and asian stocks are on the rise after china's g.d.p. exhilarated other the kinds of expenses in the fourth quarter at eight point nine percent which means as far as investors are concerned in that side wall is like the european debt crisis happening put aside for the time being but of course for my concern john is retail figures and industrial but also. helping to boost the sentiment overnight part of the world out here in the markets remained resilient to negative news from europe was stronger all supporting this sentiment on monday just finished overhaul five percent higher on the minds it was just a notch. from b two b. cap in two thousand buses will now be posted watching news coming out of the u.s.
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and china. will be closely watched u.s. and chinese macro naturally with u.s. markets closed on monday there is no data to come out of the states. this will be the one effect was tried in markets where there are obviously of us market is the one that held up in the developed countries own and in this it will be looking for any signs of weakness in the us not griffith falls behind the chinese macro also likely to be weaker and all this without having a negative read across for the projection of global growth for two thousand and twelve seven souls gold mining stocks to jury north gold starts trading on the london stock exchange this day as an independent public company but experts warn it may lack liquidity as it will place just ten percent of its stock the company's main competitors have a distaste trading on the boss with polly was gold and pulled the metal off and fifteen percent of fifty percent respectively but grabbing gold prices may push no
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goals civilization of the three billion dollar mog the company operates eight mines in four conjurers with several other projects in the early stages of development. a morgan stanley real estate fund has agreed to buy the largest mall in russia's north capsules and pages back to do as well around one point one billion dollars according to sources close to the transaction the galleria mall or originally cost three hundred eighty million dollars to build and was opened two years ago morgan stanley will buy from a group of investors from kazakhstan who refused to be identified if the shopping will sense it changes how successfully they would do would be the largest in losses when the same ok. i'll have to go there myself but i'll be back here fifty five minutes more business news joining them.
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about come back or mind. fresh air and bails to the u.n. a new resolution on syria one on all sides to halt the violence. will discuss the text later on tuesday the troubled country remains deadlocked conflict. iran says it was retaliating for the death of one of its nuclear scientists change lanes on israel the speaker of the iranian parliament accuse the country of terrorism any it's desperately trying to stop tehran's.
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