you know what. they are going to live that way before that are you moved why do kids from this school in the hot area where i was living. area because. 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 wall to show it's just food shortages power cuts are extremely common winces here and it's hard for some people to even heat their homes survival hair 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 hair some streets simply t.j. enjoying. 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 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 cool between the conflicting sides it's the people like this who is suffering are not completely with with their government. and one hundred percent and we are not against it what they are doing. the young people they are giving us they are killing our future they are killing our people and our children this is a devastating reality as syria's uprising hit me that the government all the opposition seem willing to lay down their arms and proceed dialogue for storage.

the. number of the those who are killed. we were accustomed to about twenty people per day being killed about thirty. two continuous such more more deaths more killing say these people waiting hate being greying they will their children be next to the courts in the crossfire . in the city of homs. where sara furthur is also posting updates online you can follow her blog at r.t. dot com for first hand accounts of the situation in syria. the arab league remains split over a recent proposal by qatar to send troops into syria the theory is the move could engulf the entire region asia times correspondent. says the arab league is not motivated by democracy in syria as

a group itself mostly consists of oppressive one of. don't forget that all these regimes are all doctor sees that the local populations have no possibility at all for political expression some of them their own populations like in the keys 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 lukey upsurge to start with so can we imagine the if we had what we seen in syria inside easter saudi arabia for it's all busy no calls for democracy no calls for deposing the government like qatar is saying nowadays look at what happened sobering since the 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 baunach is where saying out of 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 sixpence and go mark. well still ahead for you this hour crippled stability with the eurozone bailout fund now downgraded top bankers say it's time to do without credit ratings because quite a few minutes. and there's thousands of children in india disappear every year we investigate 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 terrans nuclear program where number of western officials have spoken out recently about possible military action against iraq as artie's they are now reports many in israel say a covert war 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 offer britain but it's never stopped the national media 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 foreign powers where there 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 action 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 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 grumbly nation but. iran

has many enemies. you. mind it's not new your own 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 iran it's the most blatant sign that an 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 policia 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. 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 the run 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 it's more news and comment twenty four hours a day at r.t. dot com here's a taste of what's online you right now in the run up to the presidential election prime minister and. bited russia to engage in extensive done. what's

needed to the country forward. on our website also online today. leading human rights campaigners doing iraq obama over a controversial you know that it debuts the indefinite detention of americans you can find out what prompted the pulitzer to take on the president at r.t. don't.

the official altie application. from the. video. and. now in the palm of your. on the dot com blow after blow has been raining down on the struggling euro zone ratings john standard and poor's and are slashing the grade of the region's bailout fund the agency stripped france and austria of the prize to aaa ratings the rescue facility was left without enough top terry quantities to guarantee its aaa status or financial analyst william engdahl 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 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 sell off of greek debt by pension funds i don't think they're unbiased 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 the systemic shock and as well the the background to the whole subprime crisis they were asleep at the switch and 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 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. now the head of the european central bank is now calling on investors regulators to ignore the ratings agencies france maintains its own downgrade changes nothing its lists as an adequate eurozone governance is to blame well that's what we talk to our our founder of the think tank equality and reconciliation which tackles political and economic problems he believes the single currency was a mistake to begin with. 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 who then forcibly

look voted in by m.p.'s it is clear that this representative democracy actually represents no one at all your opinion was meant to bring down unemployment bring prosperity security but instead it brought on employment the adoption of the euro inflated prices because didn't just realisation especially in france it may be better for germany but it's an economic disaster 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 activists are so out in about fifteen minutes time here about. now america's occupy wall street activists all descend on capitol hill later on tuesday the organizers hope could be the movement's largest gathering yet it's four months since the first anti corporate protest agreement and nationwide phenomena. reports now on how young americans are

frustrated with the power wielded by 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 he said graduate start a business have a drugstore but i think those days are are going away rapidly a personally i don't know any young pharmacist that are starting their own business like that competition c.b.s. friday to all the wal-mart target there's no way there's no way a new pharmacist could 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 no young pharmacist really they or if they 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 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 law is is diminished 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 they mean for the next generation i'm going to check our reporting from washington our team. but now what's making headlines around the world this hour we're tardy in emergency services have developed a report in a stump a newspaper but a seventh body has been recovered from the wreckage of the science cruise liner the costa concordia nine people are still missing and worsening weather conditions are hindering the current rescue operation coast guard say they have located the second the banana's data recorders should provide a picture of the disaster. kind of militants have seized control of the yemeni city about a hundred miles south of the top of some not overrun only positions and laid siege to the prison two hundred inmates some of whom took up arms and join the fight al

qaeda have previously to. in control of a string of towns in the country so the culture of russia grants them a foothold closer than ever to the full. and violent demonstrations continue to rage in the remaining capital against government or stare at images of demonstrators and caressed over to be crushed since thursday when sixty that are to persuade us and threw stones and problems of officers. who just want to point out the public wage cuts slashed benefits and widespread corruption in the government. every single day at least ten children go missing in india's capital delhi many end up as slaves or forced to work in the sex industry there's pressure to discovered the figures are actually an improvement over previous years with almost seventeen 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 rout 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 who you know but the 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 for begging to. come our son like most missing kids in delhi with the word away while playing from a porn neighborhood like this one many family members are missing take a look at they believe that they're often ignored by police because they lack money and power and in many cases they're asked to pay off the if they ever want to see their loved ones again i told the police but they only say that maybe my brother is somewhere in the park or 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

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. well kate is here now with the latest business news. a later welcome to the business program the ruble has ignored warnings from the fitch rating agency which is lowered its forecast for rush up is gaining some strength as exporters sell foreign currencies ahead of the tax period nicolay

called goose off and the t.v. capital says future prospects for the ruble remain stable despite the economic uncertainty. we've got very conservative metrics for sure than most conservatives on the wall probably. the current account is the strongest during the last several years so five point three percent of g.d.p. . current account surplus is difficult. for release here it won't be that strong cold will for there will you keep your system keep it all for the burkle for approach and presidential elections traditionally for there will be shifted from february to march april. but there still was a few on the ruble. for the year at least. let's move on to the markets then we'll start with oil and it is gaining crude is trading at near three day high france is

pushing for a faster fourth months of an iranian import ban in saudi arabia or minister was reported as saying the world's biggest exporter wants to keep prices at one hundred dollars a barrel all of this news is keeping all higher than today asian stocks are on the rise after china's g.d.p. accelerated as a faster pace than expected in the fourth quarter point nine percent thought that is actually the slowest pace since the middle of two thousand and nine or ten quarters adding to speculation about the likelihood of monetary policy in the world's second largest economy europe is now the markets have opened in the ball out we've got that positive sentiment coming from china and we've also got the news that yesterday french treasury bills had a successful style as well boosting sentiment in the hour we'll be monitoring that all too out the day for you the dax in the bike up this hour on the russian markets

holding on to their gains both e.l.t.'s and the my cigs are adding two percent each just over the most of the blue chips all trading in the black struggle or supporting energy measures gazprom is adding on. two percent that financials are also on the rise is up around two percent just under a small ambassador is gaining more than two and a whole percent reports be bankable by eleven percent i must tell you i will spend this money and finance its investment program all of this is boosting russ hi jerry they're all like castle from b. to b. capital pretty easy day straight for us. i think your factors that area will be closely watched is the u.s. and chinese macro naturally with u.s. markets closed on monday there is no data coming out of the states this will be the one of the factors driving market further on obviously of u.s. market is the one that held up in the developed countries own and in this will be

looking for any signs of weakness in the us market referred falls behind chinese marker also work review weaker and obviously will have a negative read across for a projection of global growth for two thousand and twelve. so the sols gold mining subsidiary gold starts trading on the london stock exchange this day as an independent public company but experts warn it made that clear quiddity as it will paste just ten percent of its stock the company's main competitors have biggest stakes trading on the boss with gold polymath often fifteen percent a fifty percent respectively but growing gold prices may push no goals. and over the three billion dollar mark the company operates eight mines in four conches with several other projects in the early stages of development. and morgan stanley where the state fund has agreed to buy the largest mall in russia's northern capital some pieces back the deals worth around one point one billion dollars according to

sources close to the transaction the galleria mall originally cost three hundred eighty million dollars to build and was opened two years ago morgan stanley will buy it from a group of investors from that star who refused to be identified as the shopping center changes how successfully they do would be the largest too much as a way to start market. makes me want to go shopping to join me fifty five minutes i'll be back with more business news.

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with much stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines kaiser reports. you're watching ought to be part of the headlines. crush on bale's to the u.n. the u.s. mission on syria calling on all sides to hold the balance council members discuss the text then tone tuesday troubled country remains deadlocked in conflicts. iran says it won't retard the tale of the death of one of its nuclear scientists which it blames on israel speaker of the iranian parliament accuse the country of terrorism and its desperately trying to stop terror runs of nuclear program. and occupy activists in the doll just gathering to date as they prepared to conquer the whole hill undergrads among young americans with new prospects just four months

since the first article protest grew into a nationwide form. but next we talked to political activists and then sorrell who says a united europe is an feasible concept when his native should completely revamp its policies. today we're joined by 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 saul thanks very much for joining us today the 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.