credit rating agency fades more details in a business bulletin in twenty minutes time. though you're watching r.t. world news and much more welcome to the program but 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 said fails to condemn present assets crackdown on protesters strongly enough meanwhile artie's furth now reports from syria those caught in the middle of the conflict are living 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 shows i suspect were people

numbers that at any after not having the tragic death of foreign journalist children here in homs recently served as yet another reminder the harrowing the precarious situation the people in the city are and the way to go. even if it'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 hope to hear you know what 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 a lot of schools we just want to leave peacefully people think telling us that this 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.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 is the. people like this he was suffering are not completely would be ok with our government. one hundred percent and we are not getting what they are doing. they are getting as they are killing

our future 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 being willing to lay down their arms and proceed dialogue this direction is deteriorating . the. number of the those who are killed is a skeleton we were accustomed to about twenty people per day being killed about thirty said to say that it's going to continue such more more more killing and say these people waiting taping him praying they will their children be next to the courts in the crossfire. in the city of homs. but sarah ferguson also posting updates on line you can follow her blog at r.t. dot com for first hand accounts of the latest situation in syria. from the arab

league remains split over recent proposal by qatar to send troops into syria this is the move couldn't go 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. don't forget that all these regimes are 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 are treated as second rate citizens and now we have the persian gulf monarchies trying to teach the world lessons on the markets like the home sink the whole scheme is sampson literally upsurge to start which so can only imagine the if we had what we seen in syria inside easter saudi arabia for it's obviously no cause for democracy no calls for people using 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 special goals mark west so they had crippled stability in the eurozone but not downgraded top bankers say it's time to do without credit ratings when i was twenty minutes. and there's thousands of children in india disappear every year investigate what's behind the price 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 the us

of using such tactics in a desperate bid to stop terror and nuclear program a number of western officials have spoken out recently about possible military action against iran and as our. reports many in israel say 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 be rainy and who are suspicious of israel or america taking action people here in israel since some things 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 crippling 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 last subaltern 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 memories. and 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 rant 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 policy r.t. jerusalem well iran isn't a threat to anyone and attention around its nuclear program is fabricated by

washington so says brian becker of the anti war coalition. the united states government has created an artificial crisis that's first and foremost it's a manufactured crisis aronne is complying with the i.a.e.a. 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. well there's more news and comment twenty four hours a day at r.t. dot com here's a taste of what's on life you right now reading a human rights campaigner suing barack obama over a controversial new law enables the indefinite detention torture of americans what prompted the pulitzer prize winner to take on the president. and rating bobbie the american icon has outstayed her welcome in one muslim country party dot com is the place to point out by the way will be moved from there. blow after blow has been raining down on the struggling euro zone the ratings giant 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 left without enough top tier economies to guarantee its aaa status financial

analyst frederick william and says the agency is not impartial. the role that the u.s. based grading agencies have played since the greek crisis erupted in december or 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 foreseen a massive selloff 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 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 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 or the head of the european central bank is now calling on investors and regulates is to ignore the ratings agencies france and maintains its downgrade changes nothing they tell you talk to 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. 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 thought that 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 our land 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 bure opinion 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 it could be 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. before they. consider interview in full next hour herriot. outlining a russia's future and answering the demands of the opposition pre-election that

appears to have that in a putin has defined some pivotal issues he as a future president would have to face russia's prime minister is running for the country's top job for the third time this march political analyst i was on the senate runoff told r.t. that candidate has been named all too aware of the challenges he faces. i think this will be a clarifying it will do much to bridge the gap in understanding between the opposition and the protesters in the streets we see if that's the prime minister understands all those challenges that rashi stacie and has been facing. the various two decades what he's calling its new economy to built. the reputation away from dependence on oil rigs high spending and nice there are all the opposition leaders thousand proposed any mechanisms how they're

going to give people more more pensions more solar arrays so there are actually no reserves where they're going to take it from the obviously kind of take it from the air and put in there's also stress this america's occupy wall street activists will descend on capitol hill later on tuesday what the organizers hope could be the movement and the largest gathering yet it's more months since the first anti corporate protest going to nationwide phenomenon until you can reports now on how young americans are frustrated with the power wielded by the john. 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 drug store 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. 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 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 or if they come with a lot of student loans and they really can model pain 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 a 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 with decades and the question many as 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 not what some making headlines around the world this hour hope so wearing filled with twenty nine missing people in the i mean ship disaster that killed six rescue teams are working around the

clock to recover more bodies but efforts are being hindered by western weather conditions whose done it capsized on friday nothing to walks east coast of italy the ship's captain has been blamed for the instant case manslaughter charges. kind of militants have seized control of the yemeni city of hundred miles south of the capital sana overran army positions and laid siege to local prison freeing 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 so. the capture rather than a foothold closer never to the temple. the trial of former egyptian president hosni mubarak and his two sons and several officials set to resume in cairo today next leader is charged with corruption on the on the whole killing of protesters in the uprisings that led to his ousting the president last year the chief prosecutor has called for mubarak to face the death penalty the former president had to know

it all allegations against a. violent demonstrations continue to rage in the remaining capital against government austerity measures the demonstrators took arrest today since thursday night sixteen activists playing cards and threw stones and bobs at officers the tension has reached a boiling point where public wage cuts slashed benefits widespread corruption in government. now every single day at least ten children go missing in india's capital new delhi where they end up as slaves or forced to work in the sex industry but as preassure discovered 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 a studio but the kids are kept in places where no one will be able to find them they're also kidnapped just for the organ trade business that don't sion and also if they getting the kids. come our 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 i have to be 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 potion 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. just morning at home clinging to whatever hope you can that his desperate search for the son he loves will one day and well reassure either party new delhi india that it was ordered a business update with katie's next. to lead a 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 current says ahead of the tax payer is nicholai put goose off from the capital says future prospects for the ruble remain stable despite the

economic uncertainty. very conservative metrics for sure than most conservatives and the wall. the current is the strongest during the last several years a five point eight percent of g.d.p. huge current account surplus difficult. for these here it won't be that strong cold will for their abode you keep your system keep it all for 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 false call for the year at least. ok moving else in the markets will get started with oil and it's gaining which means crude is trading their three day high is pushing for faster enforcement of an iranian import than. all minister was reported as saying the world's biggest exporter wants to keep prices at one hundred dollars

a barrel and european markets have opened in the bow out despite multiple downgrades after s. and p. slashed the credit rating of nine year old countries e.c.b. president mario draghi said investors had already priced in the downgrade dunaway and questioned the importance of credit rating agencies as you say europe's and rather one of the russian markets holding on to their gains that both the artist and the my so it's not adding a round two percent. most of the blue chips are trading in the black to still go all is supporting energy majors. around one and a halt percent of financials that was never on the rise is not over one and of course the present is gaining more than two percent in two and a half percent after of course the bank will buy eleven percent of us hard which will spend the money to finance this investment program. russian which is

largely shrugged off negative sentiments offer a mass european credit dungarees dished out over the weekend. from these to be kept who says a lot of liquidity is returning to the market which should boy investors with little exposure to russia going forward. or one of the most important factors is the fund flows we've seen almost a record for in the first first couple weeks of a year term mind you in the first half of two thousand and eleven we saw major influence in the russian stocks and those were basically wiped out in the second half naturally and there will again look at russia as emerging markets will be view only markets that will have growth a significant growth away in two thousand and twelve and actions near and then pass surely investors will be coming back and so market having by observations significantly reduce their exposure to russia so there's always something to keep an eye on so the sols gold mining subsidiary nord gold starts trading on the london

stock exchange this as an independent public company but spokeswoman it made a lot liquidity as it will place just ten percent of its stock the company's main competitors have biggest trading on the boards with polly was gold and pollie metal often fifteen percent and fifty percent respectively but it's growing gold prices may push new gold capitalization over the three billion dollar mog the company operates eight mines in full conscious with several other projects in the early stages of development. but so for now to come back thirty five minutes i'll be back with more business news journalists and.

when an uncomfortable question leads to a great accusation the wants to sue is more is enough obviously. the president who isn't supposed to hide anything. or it's someone asking him why do you make a secret out that when the powers to be suppress the voice of those who think different or when you get experiencing very serious problems often the saakashvili government came to power in two thousand and three if you put it from a book that was when the problems began piling up. interviews were now off limits to our journalists they were often beason up and humiliated in public and one of the attempt to protect property puts life in real danger is that we have been

deprived of the only means of earning a living i have gone to our originals of all the papers to be out there little lies the ownership rights on the basis of cause freedom becomes just a stage prop. you're watching our t.v. time to look at the headlines. russia unveils the u.n. new resolution on syria calling on both sides to bollards council members will discuss the text later on tuesday the troubled country remains deadlocked in conflict. iran says it won't retaliate over the death of one of its nuclear scientists which it blames on israel the speaker of the iranian parliament accuse the country of terrorism and.