tom. live from our headquarters in central moscow you're watching are two with me and he said now it's two pm here in the russian capital twelve noon in damascus and russia has circulated a new draft of its resolution on syria to the u.n. calling on all sides to halt the violence security council members will discuss the text later on tuesday but western diplomats say it fails to condemn president also its crackdown on protesters strongly enough meanwhile those are two sarah four of furth 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 show is i suspect were people

numbers that at any of the tragic death of foreign journalist children here in homs recently served as yet another reminder the harrowing really precarious situation the people in the city are in the odd way to go but. you know what. they are going to get out of that waiting for that are you moved my two kids from this school in the hot area where i was living. area. this is you know it's our land it's our home syria ok we cannot we don't want to leave our homes we don't want to leave our schools we just want to leave peacefully people have been telling us that the sky is to leave their homes across the city water shortages food shortages power cuts are extremely common winces here and it's hard for some people to even heat their homes survival here in the city of homs has

already been taken back to 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. 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 threats outbreaks of violence seen cayle sick and fractured and cooper tween the conflicting sides is the. people like this he was suffering under we are not completely would be ok with our government. and one hundred percent and we are not against it what they are doing. the young people they are getting out of

that they are killing our future they are killing our people and our children this is the devastating reality as syria's uprising it means that the government all the opposition seem willing to lay down their arms and proceed dialogue from the storage units to. the total. number of the those what killed is a skeleton 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 left waiting taping and praying that they will their children sleeping next to the courts in the crossfire. from 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 for more on this we're now joined live by you considering a grouch over. katherina so a fairly clear stance has been outlined today by the foreign ministry take us through it. the russian foreign minister today said that it does not support any foreign military contingency to syria as it would not produce any positive results for 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 un claims that syrian authorities were committing crimes against humanity and turkey is even considering imposing a buffer is 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 provoked official damascus however russia blames condemns both the syrian authorities and the opposition and that goes on to and because of it but he believes that because it should be solved by the syrians themselves without any outside any foreign military into theories of course russia fears that syria would fold the coffee be able to face to military intervention and russia urges the world probe into nato action game leiby as saying that it has gone far beyond its mandate in while russia supports arab league foreign observers mission in syria which came to the country late december however most go read to raise that 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 is at work use a rejection of dialogue with the syrian authorities as nonproductive and very incorrect. get that are you know you could really get a job 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 right in the 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 tehran's nuclear program a number of western officials have spoken out recently about possible military

action against iran those are to support us there are 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 in tehran off a bit in but it's never stopped menasha amir from reading the news in farsi every night and hosting a weekly show for listeners in the persian world to share their views he thinks around a million rain ians tune in and the topic they most want to talk about the possibility of a foreign attack on iran 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 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 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 notion but. iran has many a name is. mind and not 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 you ran it's the most blatant sign that in attacks coming but no one in israel will come on record and say there is a covert war on iran all talk of an israeli strike is limited to the air waves policy r.t. jerusalem. iran isn't a threat to anyone and the tension around its nuclear program is fabricated by washington so as 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 aronne is complying with the. iran does not have a nuclear weapon iran is not threaten its neighbors iran has not started a war with any of its neighbors israel on the other hand has hundreds of nuclear weapons and unlike iran refuses to sign the nuclear nonproliferation treaty does not allow. inspectors into its country so there's not really a nuclear menace or a nuclear danger from iran so what is the cause what's the cause of the crisis of the artificial crisis the real goal is the united states government has embarked on a course of extreme economic aggression against iran with the hope that by creating economic suffering economic isolation economic misery that part of the population will rise up or become disenfranchised with the government so that the u.s. can do as it has in history carry out regime change where there's more news in

common twenty four hours a day at r.t. dot com here's a taste of what's on line for you right now leading human rights campaigner is suing caracal bamma over a controversial new law that enables the indefinite detention of torture i. 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 r.t. dot com is the place to find out why the toy removed from every shop there. but after blow has been raining down on the struggling euro zone with ratings giant standard and poor's now slashing the grade of the region's ballot found after the agency steps france and austria have their prized aaa ratings the rescue facility was left without enough top tier economics to guarantee its aaa status and actual analyst frederick william and all says the agencies are 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 the preemptively downgrade greek sovereign debt just when european leaders in march of two thousand and ten were coming to an agreement in principle they downgraded to junk status forcing a massive selloff of grief by pension funds i don't think they're 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 leave me and when it comes to the interest of european institutions they tend to be rather aggressive which leads many europeans that i talk with to think that the rating agencies are simply an extension of the u.s. political apparatus the treasury and wall street. but i want to ross's future in answering the demands of the opposition in the pre-action manifesto and has defined some pivotal issues he as 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 through the round love told r.t. that candidate putin has been made all too aware of the challenges he thinks that. i think. will be a clear. it will do much to bridge the gap understanding between the opposition and the protesters in the streets you see. the prime minister

understands all those challenges that russia stacey and has been facing all the previous two decades what he's calling a new economy to be built. and the gravitation away from dependence on oil reserves spending and. the opposition latest as proposed any mechanism is going to give people more pensions will salaries so there are actually no reserves where they go to take it from the 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 you 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 a personally i don't know any young pharmacist that are starting their own business like that competition c.v.s. friday to all the wal-mart target there's no way there's no way a new pharmacist to compete no way and it's a shame in the last few decades thousands of independent pharmacies have been gobbled up by a handful of drug store chains this one is still standing just steps away from

a c.v.s. its owner says they survive because he gives his customers would big chains can't give you a homely atmosphere but even dedicated pharmacists like hussein experienced giants stepping on their toes hussein remembers how easy it was to start 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 in nineteen eighty-four was three times higher than it is now for the same age group millions of people's quality of life is the minish for the profits of a handful of 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 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 the 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 . al qaeda 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 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 with nearly sixty injured activists waved packard's 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 as 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 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 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 for the organ trade business that don't sion and all safe and they getting the kids. come our son like most missing kids in delhi with the word away while playing for the poor 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 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 step ocean 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 all his. he's just lying clinging to whatever hope he can that his desperate search for the son he loves will one day and well reassure

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 your company. the ruble has ignored warnings from the fitch rating agency which is lowered its forecast for russia it's going some strength as exporters sell foreign currencies ahead of the tax period nikolai pulled goose off from the capital says future prospects for the ruble remain stable despite the economic uncertainty we've got very conservative metrics for the most conservatives in the world probably. the current account is the strongest during the last several years of five point eight percent of g.d.p. huge current account surplus is so difficult not to have capital outflow at least

it won't be that strong cold will for their abode you think your system capable of following the back off approach and presidential elections and probably traditionally early for there will be shifted from february to march april is the list but i still have quite a few on the ruble in the first for the year at least. ok let's move over to the markets then starting with oil and it's going kurt is trading near three day high france is pushing for a fast enforcement on a righty an import ban passaggio arabia's foreign minister was reported as saying the world's biggest exporter wants to keep prices at one hundred dollars a barrel and europe the market opens in the block and that's where they remain for much of the day despite days of multiple downgrades e.c.v. president mario that argues that investors had already priced in the downgrades and a wife and questioned the importance of the credit rating agencies following the s.

and p. downgrade of nine year icon trends and the russian markets all holding on to their gains for the arts yes and i might say outing around two percent each close of the blue chips all trading in the flagstone well all the supporting energy majors and gas pump is adding around one and a halt the sands financials are also on the rise bad bank is also up by one and a hard percent just. it's going well into an office sent a ripple be bangle by eleven percent of us hydride which was spend the money to finance its investment program. russian ex has largely shrugged off negative sentiments off from massive european credit downgrades about what dished out over the weekend. from v. to be kept it was says a lot of liquidity is returning to the market is that we should boy vestas would list exposure to russia going forward. for russia one of the most of the factors is

the fund flows we've seen almost a record for in the for first couple of weeks a year term mind you in the first half of two thousand and eleven we saw major influence into 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 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 gold star is trying on the london stock exchange this as an independent public company but experts warn it may not clear critter terry as it is just ten percent of 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 gold prices may push no gold cup

some observations over the three of them all the company operates in eight mines in four countries that with several other projects in the early stages of development . there's this nice guy now about market news on much of the sanctity five minutes to joke about. the.

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with our dear line from moscow our top stories rush on vale's the new u.n. to be a new u.n. resolution on syria calling on all sides the pall of violence council members will discuss the text later on tuesday the troubled country remains deadlocked in conflict. 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 of the country of terrorism claiming it's just for.