yet another remind of the harrowing the precarious situation the people in the city are in the other way to go. you know what. they are going to get out of that waiting for that are you moved my kids from school in the hot area where i was living. area because. it's our land it's our home shelia ok we cannot we don't want to leave our homes we don't want to go to school 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 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 hair

some streets simply t. dangerous. the armed conflict in syria right now is looking increasingly like a civil war in the towns and cities like homs to the shame resistance is in the rules and 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 completely with or without government. and one hundred percent and we are not against it what they are doing. the young people they are getting us they are killing our future they are killing our people and our children this is the deficit . dating reality is syria's uprising yet neither the government all the opposition

seem willing to lay down their arms and proceed dialogue with storage units deteriorating. the total. number of the those who are killed is the skeleton. we were accustomed to about average twenty people but they feel it's about thirty so that to say that it's going to continue such more more marketing and say these people left waiting taping and praying that they will their children be next to be cool it's in the crossfire surf city in the city of homs. where moscow warder would be a mistake to send foreign forces into syria saying it would not produce any positive results the russian foreign ministry has also had out at the syrian opposition for rejecting moves to start dialogue with the government well for more on this we're now joined live by new considering the grouch over. here three months

so a fairly clear stance has been outlined today by the foreign ministry take us through it. the russian foreign ministry today said that it does not support any foreign military contingent sent to syria as it would not produce any positive results but russia has long been trying to maiti the conflict in syria by bringing both sides to dial open trying to find peaceful solution to the crisis but the u.n. claims that syrian authorities were committing crimes against humanity and turkey is even considering imposing a buffer so when along its border to protect syrians the russian foreign ministry says that further attempts should be made to engage with damascus well sergei lavrov has been saying that. both sides were to blame for the cold plagues and said that it was in fact expect that the syrian authorities would not respond to unrest russia believes that for the most part opposition groups are both official damascus

however russia blames condemns both the syrian authorities and the opposition and that holds on to and become fact but he believes that the conflict should be solved by the syrians themselves without any outside any foreign military into theories. of course russia fears that syria would pull the paul believe be able to face to military intervention and russia urges the world probe into nato action game levy is saying that it has gone far beyond its mandate meanwhile russia supports arab league foreign observers mission in syria which came to the country late december however most go to raise that to these mission of service mission is not authorized to send peacekeepers to the country and also russian foreign ministry today again repeated that syrian opposition as it would use a rejection of dialogue with the syrian authorities is nonproductive and very

incorrect. at that are you know you've got to be on the ground reporting live outside the foreign ministry thanks for that update. well still ahead for you this hour crippled stability with the eurozone bailout fund now downgraded top bankers say it's time to do with credit ratings we asked why in a few minutes. and thousands of children in india disappear every year we investigate what's behind the frightening track. but first 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 runs nuclear program a number of western officials have spoken out recently about possible military action against iran as our teams post their reports many in israel say a covert war may already be well 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 something's in the air you can see signs of wink and nod from israeli officials when talking about it israel is signaling to the world. if the world doesn't do anything if the wall doesn't call for more fierce actions

or more crippling sanctions quoting the secretary of state clinton then israel would take the initiative and strike alone some wonder if israel hasn't already declared an unofficial war on terror and what suspicions raised further after the assassination of another iranian nuclear scientist earlier this month while on his way to work putting everything together it is clear that whoever it is but if someone or somebody or some agency is very successful in infiltrating understanding and last sabotaging the iranian nuclear project the attack is the latest in a series of mysterious accidents linked to iran's nuclear program two aircraft accidents in the space of three years scientists disappearing equipment damaged and computer viruses unleashed and the fingers pointing at israel. and the united states this is a very respectable grammar notion but. iran

has made. you. mind. your own. adding fuel to the fire the plan for israel and the united states to conduct the biggest joint military drills before the end of the year it would see thousands of american troops deployed in israel. it's the most blatant find that in attacks coming but no one in israel will come on record and say there is a covert war on iran all talk of an israeli strike is limited to the airwaves r t. well iran isn't a threat to anyone and the tension around its nuclear program is fabricated by washington so says brian backer 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 i.a.e.a. around does not have

a nuclear weapon iran is not threatening 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 and 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 online for you right now a leading human rights campaigner is suing barack obama over

a controversial new law that enables the indefinite detention of torture of americans find out what prompted the pulitzer prizewinner to take on the president . and the rating barbie the american icon has outstayed her welcome in one muslim country dot com is the place to find out why the toy will be removed from every shop there. but after blow it's been raining down on the struggling euro zone with ratings giants standard and poor's now slashing the grade of the region's ballot frowned after the agency stripped france and austria of their prized aaa ratings the rescue facility was left without enough top tier economics to guarantee its aaa status financial analyst frederick william and all says the agencies are not impartial. the role that the u.s. based rating agencies have played since the greek crisis erupted in december old 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 biased i don't think they're the independent agencies that they portray themselves to be they enjoy a very curious role in being blind to the. problems in companies like g.e. just before the september two thousand and eight explosion there the calls to global systemic shock and as well 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 leave me 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. outlining russia's future and answering the demands of the opposition and the pre-election manifesto is your approach that has to find some pivotal issues he has future president would have to face russia's prime minister is running for the country's top job for a third time in march political analyst alexander thirty round love told artsy that candidate putin has been made all too aware of the challenges he faces. i think this will be a clarifying it will do much to the gap in understanding between the opposition and the protesters in the streets you see if that's the prime minister understands all those challenges that rashi stacie and has been facing hold the previous two to kate what he's calling for is

a new economy to be built. and the gravitation away from dependence on oil reserves high spending and nicer all the opposition latest house proposed any mechanisms how they're going to give people more more pensions will solar arrays so there are actually no reserves where they're going to take it from the to obviously kind of take it from the air and put in is also stressed this. america's occupy wall street activists will descend on capitol hill later on tuesday for what the organizers hope could be the movement's largest gathering yet it's four months since the first anti corporate protests grew into a nationwide phenomenon and it's a 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 the 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 going away rapidly and personally i don't know any young pharmacists that are starting their own business like that competition c.b.s. right. to all the wal-mart target there's no way there's no way a new pharmacy can be nowhere in its history 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 already come with a lot of student loans and really can not all 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 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 ham. all of the men or is a corporation for most young people in the us starting their own business isn't even a consideration most of that 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 a decade and the question many as 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. let's take a look now at what's happening around the world this hour in some news in brief hopes are wearing thin for the twenty nine missing people following the italian cruise ship disaster that killed six rescue teams are working around the clock to recover more bodies even using explosives to blast holes in the hall of the vessel cruise liner capsized on friday after hitting the wrong east coast of italy the ship's captain has been blamed for the incident and could face manslaughter charges . all kind of militants have seized control of the yemeni city of raga one hundred miles south of the capital sanaa the overran army positions and laid siege to local prison freeing two hundred inmates some of whom took up arms and joined the fight to have previously taken control of a string of towns in the country's south but the capture of rather grants them a foothold closer than ever to the capital. the trial of former egyptian

president hosni mubarak charged with corruption and unlawful killing of protesters is set to resume in cairo today who joined in court by his two sons and eight officials to present their defense in what has been dubbed the trial of the century in egypt and barak maintains his innocence and claims he was unaware that the killings were taking place he is the first leader to stand trial in person since the arab spring began. while in demonstrations continue to rage in the romanian capital against government austerity measures thousands of demonstrators in bucharest have repeatedly clashed with police since thursday when nearly sixty injured activists waved placards and threw stones and firebombs at officers tension has reached boiling point over public wage cuts slashed benefits and widespread corruption in the government. every single day at least ten children go missing in

india's capital new delhi many end up in the slaves are forced to work in the sex industry but as british 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 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 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 it's who you know 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 for the making but. kumar 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 see 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 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 also try 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 step. 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 where all his stuff is just lying at home clinging to whatever hope he can that his desperate search for the son he loves will one day and well three issue either r.t. new delhi india head of well that wraps up our main news block this hour kate is here next with the latest business news.

hello there welcome to the business program appreciate a company that the ruble has ignored warnings from the fitch writing agency which is lowered its forecast for russia is gaining some strength as exporters sell foreign currencies ahead of the taxpayer is nicholai pulled off from d.c.b. 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 eight percent of g.d.p. you wouldn't refuse current account surplus is so difficult not to have capital outflow at least it won't be that strong cold will fill their abode you keep your system capable of for the burkle for production presidential elections and probity

traditionally for their ability will be shifted from february to march april. but they're still quite a few on the ruble. for the year at least. ok let's move over to the markets then starting with oil and it's going crude is trading at three day high france is pushing for a fast enforcement on the right in an import bound passaggio very visible minister was reported as saying the world's biggest exporter wants to keep prices at one hundred dollars a barrel and that europe the market opens in the block and that's where they remained for much of the day despite days of multiple downgrades e.c.v. president mario doggie's said investors had a ready priced in the downgrades anyway and questioned the importance of the credit rating agencies following the s. and p. downgrade of your icon trends and the russian markets all holding on to their gains by the yacht's yes and i might say around two percent. plus of the blue chips all

trading in the flagstone well all the supporting averaging major gas pump is adding around one of the sands financials but also on the rise bad bank is also up by one in the hall with just. it's going to move into an all percent honorable bank called why i left the stance of us which was spend the money to finance its investment. russian xs laws a struggle negative sentiments massive european credit downgrade over the weekend. to be kept to a says a lot of liquidity is returning to the market is that we should boy investors would listen exposure to russia going forward. for russia the one of the most unfair factors is the fund flows we've seen almost a record in full in the first couple of weeks a year to remind 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 in their service so will again look at russia as the emerging markets will be view only markets that will have growth significant growth will be in two thousand and twelve and as reelections near and then pass surely investors will be coming back and so market having by our observations to significantly reduce their exposure to russia so this will be something to keep an eye on. so the sols gold mining subsidiary nord gold starts trying on the london stock exchange this as an independent public company but experts warn it may not to credit a as it is just ten percent of its stock the company's main competitors have biggest stakes trading on the bourse with gold polymaths all offering fifteen percent fifty percent respectively but growing up with gold prices might crush no gold capsulize ation over the three billion dollar mog the company operates in eights mines in full conscious with several other projects in the early stages of

development. that's a late business news for now about mo market news much of the same fifty five minutes to tell me that. wealthy british style. guys go. to.

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here with our seat line from moscow our top stories rush on vale's the new u.n. today a new u.n. resolution on syria calling on all science to halt the violence council members will discuss the text later on tuesday the troubled country remains deadlocked in conflicts. iran says it won't retaliate of the death of one of its nuclear scientists which it blames on israel the speaker of the iranian parliament to use the country of terrorism claiming it's desperately trying to stop tehran's nuclear program. and occupy activists plan their largest gathering to date as they prepare to conquer capitol hill all anger grows among young americans with no prospects for

months as the first and two corporate protests grew into a nationwide phenomenon. next week talk to political activists alonso raul who says a united europe is an unseasonable concept well his native france should completely revamp its policies. that's a day we're joined by alice are all he's a french writer and founder of the political think tank equality and reconciliation and he's considered by many as a controversial figure in france for his political style but 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 isreal thanks very much for joining us today my first question is what is it that you dislike so much about the french the status quo that you feel compelled if you will to go against it.