shies i suspect we're people most numbers that have been having the tragic death of a foreign journalist killed just here in homs recently served as yet another remind the harrowing the precarious situation the people in the city are in the way to go . with the bits you know what. they are going to get out of that waiting for that are you moved by do kids from their school in the hope area where i was living. area was going to stop you well this is not you know my 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 disappointed 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 keep 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 too dangerous. the un 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 and now you know 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 it's the people like this who is suffering on the we are not completely with with our government. and one hundred percent and we are not against it oh. what they are doing go by the gun people they are getting

as they are killing our future they are killing our people and over children this is the devastating reality as syria's uprising hit me that the government all the opposition seem willing to lay down their arms and to see dialogue from the storage units of the thirty eighth in. the total. number of the those what killed is the skeleton we were accustomed to about average twenty people but they being killed it's about thirty so to say that it's going to continue as such more more more killing and say these people left waiting taping and praying they will their children will be next to be caught in the crossfire surf city in the city of homs. moscow warned it would be a mistake to send foreign forces into syria saying it would not produce any

positive results the russian foreign ministry has also hit out at the syrian opposition for rejecting moves to start dialogue with the government with more on this we're now joined live by you katherina going to charge us because we are so a fairly clear stance has been our mind today by the foreign ministry take us through it. the russian foreign ministry today said that most would not support this patch of foreign military contingency to syria as it would not produce any positive results for russia has been trying to maybe the conflict in syria for a long trying time by bringing both sides to dial open trying to find a peaceful solution to the crisis mosco also believes that it's not only the syrian opposition to the government to be blamed for the violence but the opposition as well it also says that further attempts should be made to engage with official damascus therefore most who describes the syrian opposition rejection of. maybe

forty's as nonproductive been absolutely correct it is also against an arms embargo saying that it was unfair to expect that the syrian government would not respond to on the rest and russia believes that for the most part armed opposition groups will provoking syrian authorities in other words unlike the un russia condemns both the syrian government and the opposition in the ongoing violence and of course it believes that the public should be sold by the syrians themselves without any outside military interference russia fears that syria could pull the possibly be at that weak newest military intervention but not that russia are just thorough probe into nato operation in libya saying it has gone far beyond the proved mandate meanwhile russia who supports the arab league that service mission in syria that came to the country would lead to some but however most stress today again that the arab league is normally authorized to send peacekeepers to see we. have three major

trouble reporting live from outside the foreign ministry thanks for that. still ahead for you this hour crippled stability with the eurozone ballad front now downgraded top bankers say it's time to do without credit ratings we asked why in just a few minutes. and as 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 in the u.s. of using such tactics in a desperate bid to stop tehran's nuclear program and number of western officials have spoken out recently about possible military action against iran those are two as follows there are now 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 the 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 action 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 grimmer nation but. room has. moves. 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. but the 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. 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. 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. specters 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 for you at our dot com here's a taste of what's online right now a leading human rights campaigner is suing brock obama over a controversial new wall that enables the indefinite detention and torture of

americans find out what prompted the pulitzer prize winner to take on the president . and parading barbie the american icon has outstayed her welcome in one muslim country or two dot com is the place to find out why the toy will be removed from every shop there. now blow 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 ballet out fund after the agency stripped france and austria of their prized aaa ratings the rescue facility was left without enough top tier economies to guarantee its aaa status financial analyst 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 of zero nine has been what many people here see as a brazenly political role and it happens to be that they preemptively downgrade

greek sovereign debt just when european leaders in march of two thousand and ten were coming to an agreement in principle they downgraded to junk status forcing a massive sell off of greek debt by pension funds i don't think they're 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 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. outlining worsens future in answering the demands of the opposition in a pre-election manifesto vladimir putin has defined some pivotal issues he has fears or president would have to face russia's prime minister is running for the country's top job for the third time this march political analysts xander is that iran have told r.t. that candidate putin has been made all too aware of the challenges he faces. i think this will be a clear refiling it will do much to bridge the gap understanding between the opposition and the protesters in the streets we see. the prime minister understands all those challenges that russia stacey and has been facing. the previous two decades what he used its new economy to built. the gravitation away from dependence on oil rigs by spending. nights

there all the opposition leaders thousand proposed any mechanism is going to give people more and more pensions and solar arrays so there are actually no reserves where they're going to take it from the obviously can i take it from the air and put in is also stressed. 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 and corporate protests grew into a nationwide phenomenon i need to can 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 you said graduate start a business have a drugstore but i think those days are are going away rapidly and personally i don't know any young pharmacists that are starting their own business like that competition c.b.s. friday all the wal-mart target there's no way there's no way a new pharmacy could 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 a homely atmosphere but even dedicated pharmacists like hussein experienced giants

stepping on their toes hussein remembers how easy it was to start a pharmacy some thirty years ago it was a lot easier back then to stay and survive thirty years ago they could just go in and easily open a pharmacy now no young pharmacist really they already come with a lot of student loans and they really can 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 a big company. 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 i know this 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 it's is good merely a shift for the profits of a handful of the immense stores and corporations for most young people in the us 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. a look now at some other news that are

making headlines around the world hopes are rearing fan for 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 vast cruise liner capsized on friday after hitting rock off the east coast of italy the ship's captain has been blamed for the incident and could face manslaughter charges. the trial of former egyptian president hosni mubarak targets with corruption and the unlawful killing of protesters has resumed today in cairo he is joined in court by his two songs and eight officials to present their defense and what has been dubbed the trial of the century. egypt but barak maintains his innocence and claims that he was unaware that the killings were taking place is the first alstad leader standing trial in person since the arab spring began to. find the 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 placards and threw stones and firebombs at officers tension has reached a boiling point over public wage costs washed 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 its previous trigger 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 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. but if the kids are kept in places where no one will be able to find them they're also kidnapped for the organ trade business adoption and also to begin with. kumar son like most missing kids in delhi with the word away while playing for the poor neighborhoods like this one many family members are missing to say that they

believe that they're often ignored by police because they lack money and power and in many cases they're asked to pay a fee if they ever want to see their loved ones again i told the police but they only say that maybe my brother is somewhere in the park were sleeping in some temple or staying at a friend's place delhi police say that while they know they face a massive problem things are getting better while in the past eighteen children in delhi would go missing every day this year that number is closer to ten organisations working to help the families of the missing say that while the police need to do more they're overburdened and understaffed. we're also trying to pressure the cool to alter 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 way all his. it's just morning 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. who has crossed over to the business us now kate is here with a live update. that welcome back to the business program following the recent downgrades in credit ratings of your as i members germany has called for the introduction of independent european writing agent says the proposal would see them become an alternative to u.s. base and it's not just on the poles and fitch european officials say them as complicate the current union's efforts to enjoy the wason a debt crisis for more i'm joined by simon. managers.

into this now first of all how how much can we trust these u.s. writing agencies and how seriously can we take the downgrades the interesting thing is fitch is actually around eighty percent by a french company so they're not necessarily u.s. rating agencies obviously the major offices are in new york and london but to say the u.s. is to fall into a and then grow anglo u.s. sort of conspiracy against the euro zone which i don't think exists. in two thousand and eight and the rating agencies were criticized for being so slow to downgrade and now we have the european governments be saying they're too fast to act which is slightly strange ok and how much can these downgrades avoid the shake the european financial system how much i suppose all the downgrades were as jim o'neill said the most underwhelming of all time these were well priced into the market they're well anticipated that's why we have outlooks their own just it's not

just the credit credit rating there's also the outlook which is forward looking at me of the day the outlook for the house being for the downgrade to happen. now has been proposals of these independent european rating agencies how viable of these do you think i think the establishment of a european only rating agency is a little it's a little on the silly side it's basically a sort of slap down saying. we don't like what you've said so we're going to sit of our own is it independent who does a report or is it only going to be specifically for europeans i mean i used a whole raft of questions but fundamentally it's basically saying i'm pretty unhappy with what your pubs say i'm going to go run off and join my own club i can talk about russia then shout way russia's credit rating has been changed from positive to what you think is making russia hold on to its writing it might. be out it was changed post if you neutral it was specifically done away in the election

that's coming up in march we remember that the u.s. was put on downgrade watch for the political uncertainty surrounding that the debt limit increase this is just it's just part and parcel processes as economic and political situations change the radiator to be more proactive this is a good thing the fact that it's being put on on stable calm will is not necessarily bad for russia or toll it is just it's assuring the rating agencies are looking to see what's happening and they will anticipate see what happens in the elections and move forward from now let's put this into context this now means that russia has the same credit rating as if so what does this mean does it mean more investments going to come into russia what is it all interesting thing is that the the credit ratings themselves might be the same but actually the cost of insuring against the italian default he's over twice that of the russian default. so the market

perceives them as two entirely separate things that the chance of a russian before is almost negligible considering its own enormous commodity pile has virtually no debt i'm standing isn't planning on raising too much debt in two thousand and twelve and with all prices where it were russia is in a fundamentally different position to italy which is one budget deficit for the last fifteen years i can't thank you very much indeed that some simon than them for that so that. management set manages thanks very much in date ok let's see the market shall we fanatics have a look at what's happening is getting good is trading near the retired high finance is pushing for a fall stuff the fools one of an iranian import found lost audio radios or minister i was reported as saying the world's biggest exporter wants to keep prices out one hundred dollars a barrel on it see what's happening over in europe the markets have been comfortably in the black for much of the trading day so far despite those multiple

dungarees that we've just been discussing at u.c.b. president did august that investors how the already priced into the downgrades as we were saying again according to question the credit rating agency is now let's also have a look at the close it's a high what's happening in russia the russian markets are also holding on to their guy and yes he's gaining a one point eight percent of the march that is up around one and a half percent just tons of that let's take a look at it through chip sale trading in the black today struggle all is supporting energy majors gas prom is adding around one percent some of us dollar is among the top gun owners a report says subsidiary of gold will become a separate company to start trading in the us hydro is also on the rise of the vbied bank agreed to by eleven percent and one hundred power producer it was spending money to finance is investment program. and that is it for now i'll be

back in about fifty five minutes thank you very much indeed for joining us.

at three thirty pm moscow time these are the top stories from our team crush on veils to the u.n. a new resolution on syria calling on all sides to halt the violence council members will discuss untaxed 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 the news the country of terrorism claiming it's desperately trying to stop tehran's nuclear program. and occupy activists plan their barges gathering to date as they prepare to conquer capitol hill on anger grows among young americans with no prospects it's

four months since the first anti corporate protests blew into a nationwide phenomenon. up next max kaiser and co-host stacy herbert discussed the republican candidates for the u.s. presidency. max kaiser this is the kaiser report yeah it's just one big state sponsored network c.b.s. fox news c.n.n. it's all the same it's all government propaganda states are ever well it's more than government propaganda it's military industrial and banking industrial complex propaganda and we see that in this first headline c.b.s. didn't mention ron paul once during an entire political segment so we're going to turn to this clip from c.b.s. this is on the eve of the new hampshire primaries expect.