there are some markets are up but the i mean bell fallen from gains made in asia more details in the business bulletin in twenty minutes time. around the world around the clock you're watching r.t. a very warm welcome to. 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 diplomat said to condemn present assets crackdown on protesters strong enough meanwhile those artes sara furth reports 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 she's either shut down were people numbers that at the end of having the tragic death of foreign journalist children here in homs recently served as yet another reminder of the harrowing really precarious situation that people in the city are in the way to go but. that's you know what. they are going to get out of that waiting for that are you moved why do kids from this school in the hopped area where i was living. area because you know they can't stop you well this is not your normal 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 our schools we just want to leave peacefully people think 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 here some streets simply t. danger. film 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 thousands of people have fled the city can't imagine anyone wanting to leave him now not everyone can leave across the country right now civilian safety is he usually under threats outbreaks of violence seen cayle sick and fractured and cooper tween the conflicting sides is the. people like this he was suffering. completely would be ok with our government. one hundred percent and we are not

doing what they are doing. they are getting as they are getting our future they are killing. our children this is the devastating reality of syria's uprising it means that the government all the opposition being willing to lay down their arms and proceed dialogue. the. number of the those who are killed is. we were accustomed to about twenty people per day being killed about thirty so to say that it's going to continue such more more more killing and say these people are waiting keeping him praying they will their children be next to the courts in the crossfire . in the city of homs. sarah ferguson also

posting updates on line you can follow her blog to r.t. dot com for first hand accounts of the latest situation in syria. well the arab league remains split over a recent proposal by qatar to send troops into syria but there's the move could engulf the entire region asia times correspondent pesca bar says the arab league is not motivated by democracy in syria as a group itself mostly consists of oppressive want to. don't forget that all these regimes are doctor sees that the local populations have no possibility of political expression some of them their own populations like in the case of the rate seventy percent shiite population they are 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 lewdly upsurge to starts with so can we

imagine if we had what we seen in syria inside easter saudi arabia for it's obviously no calls for democracy no calls for deposing the government like qatar is a nowadays look at what happened sobering sister beginning of the pro-democracy protests in manama almost a year ago the repression 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 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 goals mark. but i still had few this crippled stability in the eurozone bailout fund now downgrading top bankers say it's time to do without a credit rating. and there's thousands of children and this is. the basic eight what's behind the frightening trend.

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 israel and the u.s. of using such tactics in a desperate bid to stop terror on's nuclear program western officials have spoken out recently about possible military action against iran and as i point to their reports many in israel say a covert war may already be underway. 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 and 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 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 since 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 for more troubling sanctions quoting the secretary of state clinton then israel would take the initiative and strike along 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. this is a very. respectable grammar notion but. iran has many i mean is. you. mind not in my generation of 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 a 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 airwaves

policy r.t. jerusalem well iran isn't a threat to anyone and the tension around its nuclear program is fabricated by washington so says brian becker of the antiwar answer 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 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 but the more news and comment 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 part of history in that region is going to. stay. on friday what's needed from what it is printed on our website also on our. leading human rights campaigner suing barack obama controversial you know what enables the tension of torture of americans find out what forced the pulitzer prize winner take on the president called.

the. the official auntie application your pod touch from the. geology. video on demand. and. now in the palm of your. on the dot com. though afterburn has been raining down on the struggling eurozone for the ratings john standard and poor's now slashing the grade of the region's

bailout fund after the agency stripped france and austria of their prized aaa ratings rescue facility was that without enough top tier economies to guarantee its aaa status of financial analysts fredricka william endl says agencies are not 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 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 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 that caused a global systemic shock and as well be 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 levy and when it comes to the interests 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. 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 changes nothing but if he says inadequate u.s. and governance is to blame when they talk to other in sorrow founder of the political think tank equality and reconciliation who believe the single currency was

a mistake to begin with. 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 with all that we were still having referendums on such decisions as the mass treat referendum got through but in the second referendum on the lisbon treaty the french voted no in ireland 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 the european 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 that it may be better for germany it could do but it's an economic disaster the euro is exploding the single currency is a technical in possibility 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 a summit every three days it's no good it's close to collapse. for the. day you can say that interview in full next hour here in r.t. . america has occupy wall street activists all descend on capitol hill later on tuesday what the organizers hope could be the just gathering yet it's four months since the first at a corporate protest equivalent to a nationwide phenomenon can reports now on how young americans are frustrated with 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 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. friday 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 changes 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 no young pharmacist really they already come with a lot of student loans and they really can not go again 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 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 movie 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 decades and the question many ask is what kind of future can they build and what will be the for the next generation i'm going to check our

reporting from washington our team. but look now at what's making headlines around the world this hour another body has been found in the wreckage of the italian cruise liner bringing the total death toll to seven pictures of that rescue operation you know not twenty eight people are still missing and worsening weather conditions are hindering the problem ration the cruise ship capsized off the striking rocks close to the island of. west coast ship's captain has been blamed disaster and could face manslaughter charges. archaia the militants have seized control of any city or rather one hundred miles south of the capital sana move around on their positions and laid siege to the prison for two hundred nights. took up arms and join the fight al qaeda have previously taken control of a string of towns in the country's south and a culture of brotherhood grants them

a foothold close never to the capital. demonstrations continue to rage in the rumanian capital against government austerity measures thousands of demonstrators in bucharest repeatedly clashed with police since thursday nearly sixty injured back to the subway cars and threw stones and firebombs of hopelessness tension has reached a boiling point over public wage cuts smashed benefits widespread corruption in the government. republican candidate jon huntsman has abandoned his u.s. presidential campaign though saying mitt romney is the best man to take on barack obama he outspent comes less than a week of the huntsman came third in the actions in new hampshire or something in seventeen percent of the vote despite extensive campaigning. withdrawal from the presidential race leaves five republican candidates in the current frontrunner. we are. there every single day at least ten children go missing in india's capital new

delhi many end up as slaves or forced to work in the sex industry there's pressure to discover that the figures are actually an improvement over previous years. with almost seventy million people packed into 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 route 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 look 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 who you know but their kids are kept in places where no one will be able to find them they're also kidnapped for the organ trade business that don't sion and also to begin with. kumara son like most missing kids in delhi was alert 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 cool to order the police to take serious steps in this issue to watch 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 mining 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 that it was. ok to say that i would make this business news.

welcome to the business program the ruble has ignored warnings from the fitch rating agency which is lowered its forecast for russia is gaining some strength as exporters sell foreign currencies ahead of the taxpayer nicolay part gustafsson the capital says future prospects for the ruble remain stable despite the economic uncertainty we've got very conservative metrics for us are the most conservatives in the world probably. the current account is the strongest during the last several years a five point eight percent of g.d.p. huge current account surplus is difficult not to have capital outflow at least it won't be that strong cold will for their abode you to your system capable of on the back of approach and presidential elections and probity traditionally for their

ability to be shifted from february to march april. but they still have quite a few on the ruble in the first for the year at least. let's move on to the markets and all and it is gaining crude is trading near three day high after france pushed off past enforcement of an iranian import found i want my war three months and i'm into that saudi arabia is all minister was reported as saying the world's biggest exporter wants to keep prices at one hundred dollars a barrel. asian stocks are on the rise now after china's g.d.p. accelerated at a faster pace than expected in the fourth quarter as eight point nine percent but that figure is actually the love it is since the middle of two thousand and nine portend poor kids adding to speculation about the likelihood of moment you policy the world's second largest economy china of course the russian markets are holding

on to their gains both e r t s and m i six are gaining around one and a half percent and moving on to the. individual the blue chips are trading in the back that stronger always supporting energy majors gazprom is just a percent financials are also on the rise bank is up more than one percent growth target is gaining around two percent just on the back and all reports at the bank will buy let me present a nascar driver which will spend the money to finance its investment program a leg cut off from the to be capital previews the day's trade. i think your factors that area will be closely watched u.s. and chinese macro naturally u.s. markets closed on monday there is no data coming out of the states. one of them work it further on obviously of u.s. market is the one that held up in the developed countries are and will be looking

for any signs of weakness in the us not referred falls behind chinese macro also likely view weaker and obviously that have a negative read across for the projection of global growth for two thousand. so the soul's gold mining subsidiary gold starts trading on the london stock exchange this day as an independent public company but experts warn it may lack acquitted take as it were patience ten percent of its stock the company's main competitors have biggest stakes trading on the bulls with hollywood's gold polymaths all offering fifteen percent fifty percent respectively but to growing gold prices may push knoebels capitalization over the three billion dollar mark the company operates in eight mines in four countries with several other projects in the early stages of development. so for now i'll be back in about fifty five minutes time about the mall business and. the.

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come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cars or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines into a report on our. welcome back her mind of our top stories that russia unveils to the u.n. a new resolution on syria calling all sides to hold the bottles council members of the scots the next event on tuesday the troubled country remains a deadlocked in conflict. iran says it won't to retaliate to death of one of its main this scientists which it blames on israel the speaker of the arabian parliament accuse the country ten years of ending its desperately trying to stop tehran's.