you'll have to wait before that are you moved by do kids from school in the heart area where i was living. area. this is not your normal life it's our land it's our home syria ok we cannot we don't want to leave our homes we don't want to leave our schools we just want to leave peacefully people have been telling us that the sky is to leave their homes across the city wall to show it's just food shortages power cuts are extremely common winces here and it's hard for some people to even heat their homes survival hay in the city of homs has really 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't travel from one area to another head from street to v.t. danger. 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 losing thousands of people have fled the city because as much as anyone wanting to live here now you know everyone can leave across the country right now civilian safety is hugely under threat outbreaks of violence seen cayle sick and fractured and cool between the conflicting sides it's the people like this who is suffering are not completely with with our government. and one hundred percent and we are not against it what they are doing. the young people they are getting guns they are killing our future they are killing our people and i will own children this is the devastating reality of syria's uprising that me that the government all the opposition seem willing to lay down their arms and proceed dialogue distortion is deteriorating. the total. number of the those who was

killed. we were accustomed to about average twenty people but they being killed it's about thirty so i'd say that it's going to continue such more more deaths more killing say these people waiting hate being praying they will their children sleeping next to the courts in the crossfire. in the city if. you can keep across hours updates from inside syria through her online blog which is available for you at r t dot com now russia wants to ensure that the un doesn't sanction a military intervention in syria the u.s. and its european allies want the syrian regime targeted and president assad out the kremlin also rebuffed calls from cats are to send an arab league forces with more developments on these hears you've got three not. but russia has long been trying

to many of the conflict in syria by bringing both sides to dial oaken trying to find a peaceful solution to the crisis it also says that further attempts should be made to engage with official damascus boy he described the syrian opposition as rejection of dialogue with the authorities nonproductive an absolutely incorrect i was also against an arms embargo saying that it was unfair to expect that the syrian government would not respond to on rest russia believes that for the most part on the opposition groups in syria will provoking the government in that country russia condemns both the government and the opposition and don't go we also believe. should be sold by the syrians themselves without any outside military interference russia of course fears that syria could fold the possibly weakness to military intervention we know that russia insists urges for

a thorough probe into nato action operation and saying that it has gone far beyond the approved mandate meanwhile russia fully supports the arrow observe us mission in syria that came to the country late december however most stresses that the arab league is also not authorized to send peacekeepers to syria. well iran's made arrest over last week's killing of a nuclear scientist and accuses israel and the u.s. of orchestrating terrorism to stop its nuclear program calls for possible military action in the west have grow louder which russia warns would be disastrous but as paul cyr reports from israel many of their believe a covert war they 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 in tehran off a bit in but it's never stopped menasha 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 iranians tune in and the topic they most want to talk about the possibility of a foreign attack on iran they are very much afraid that the iranian nuclear installations will be bombed by foreign powers where they're israel or the united states or any other country. but it's not only the rain ians for 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 a blow some wonder if israel hasn't already declared an unofficial war on terror and what suspicions raised further after the assassination of another iranian

nuclear scientist earlier this month while on his way to work putting everything together it is clear that whoever it is but if someone or somebody or some agency is very successful in infiltrating understanding and last sabotaging the iranian nuclear program 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 grumble nation but. iran has many enemies and. in mind it's 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 iran it's the most blatant sign that an attacks coming but no one in israel will come on record and say there is a covert war on iran all talk of an israeli strike is limited to the air waves r.t. jerusalem. well still ahead for you this hour the tragedy of india's lost children thousands go missing in the capital every year few are at her found we explain why . but first americans and to the corporate occupy protesters are starting the year as they mean to go on digging in with their demos as i clock up four months of the campaign thousands are due to rally outside congress later on tuesday hoping their demands won't fall on deaf ears as representatives reconvene after the holidays campaigners were also have one eye on the police in case there's another heavy handed break up of their gathering but began in september in wall street

spread across the country but the goal remains the same stop the riches from bombing regular citizens of a livelihood that's going to cham now reports. 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 going away rapidly personally i don't know any young pharmacist that are starting their own business like that competition c.b.s. write it 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. good to hear from boldly 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 bay could just go in and easily open a pharmacy now now young pharmacist really they already come with a lot of student loans and they really can model 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 or 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 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 thousand nine hundred 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 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 out reporting from watching our team. the rating agencies keep raining the blows on a beleaguered here up now the euro zone's fragile bellafante has been downgraded again in standard and poor's the far woods to motive nine nations instead france and austria have their top statuses those downgrades meant the rescue found last a hundred maybe billion euros in aaa guarantees and that's knocked its own score down as a result better news for france is that the other major ratings firms are keeping presence positioned high with president sarkozy saying s. and p's solitary move well the fact that the actual policy but as our team here is

later this hour it's the current say not the credit scores who are the root of the problem. to deceive when you look at the reality of the past twenty years the european union has changed very little by the way if we remember back then we were still having referendums on such decisions so the must reach 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 then forcibly voted in by m.p.'s it is clear that this representative democracy actually represents no one told the european union was meant to bring down unemployment bring prosperity security but instead it brought unemployment the adoption of the euro inflated prices because didn't just realisation especially in france it may be better for germany but it's an economic disaster with merkel and sarkozy meeting every three days it's getting ridiculous now there's a summit every three days it's no good it's close to collapse.

and still had an artsy business how we as unpaid downgrade fell to shake investor confidence on europe's trading floors. the european markets were up throughout the whole days. today however germany calls for setting up an independent european waiting agency after the recent downgrades and quit waiting nine your member states join me for more on that in our business policy. where russia watchers have been poring over plans plans his presidential campaign the prime minister set out his stall on how to solve russia's problems from poverty to corruption if elected again mark in april political analyst alexandersson obama says well aware of the challenges ahead i think this will be a clarifying it will do much to bridge the gap standing between the

opposition and the protesters in the streets we see. prime minister stand challenges that russia stacey and has been facing. the previous two decades what hughes calling its new economy to the built. the reputation way for all dependents. spending. nicer all the opposition leaders as proposed any mechanisms how they're going to give people more more pensions and salaries 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 is also stressed. just a correction there for you the elections of course are on march the fourth. and you can read prime minister putin's plans for yourself we have his article available for you online at our dot com and while you're there here's what else you can check

out and information blackout the world's most popular online encyclopedia will go on strike on wednesday the fight against anti-piracy bills passing through the u.s. congress. and suspending shakespeare why a school board in the states has taken the iconic play right off their book shelves . well russia's failed mars probe has fallen back to earth but suspicions over why it didn't work are far from over russia's deputy prime minister thinks phobos grooms may have been wrong footed by an american radar in alaska i mean there are goals and also wants an investigation into why frequent disruptions of russian space technologies occur the probe was launched from the viking or cosmodrome in kazakhstan on november nine to collect soil from

a martian moon but shortly after it fell to had its course to mars and remain stuck in earth's orbit eventually came down in the pacific ocean on sunday. a look now at some other news from around the world hopes are fading for twenty nine people still missing following the italian cruise ship disaster that's killed at least six. also the italian navy is using explosives to get into parts of the vessels in a scramble to find survivors the liner capsized after hitting the reef off the italian coast on friday the captain's accused of abandoning the ship before it was evacuated and could face manslaughter charges. insurgents in iraq have attacked a checkpoint killing five police. it took place in the town of route as police guarded a border highway with jordan the area is a former al qaeda stronghold many iraqis fear that security forces are unable to protest protect protect the country i should say without the help of u.s.

troops which withdrew at the end of last year. yemen's foreign minister says months of protests and political instability could mean february's presidential election won't happen on time in a t.v. interview he is said to deal with security issues before voting can start. up a town one hundred sixty kilometers south of the capital as militants take advantage of the rest which is calling for a long time leader president to quit. thousands of children disappear from new delhi's packed city streets every year many are abducted and never heard from again even having their organs removed and sold there are now reports desperate families searching for their loved ones are being shut out by police who say they're overburdened and understaffed. 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 robbie's 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 into the organ trade business that don't sion and all safe and they get in but. kumar a son like most missing kids in delhi was alert away while playing from a 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 if 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. i think 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 stop. but this comes as little comfort to parents like rao kumar who feels as if he's tried everything he continues to visit ravis untouched bedroom every day holding on to the memories they shared my son used to sleep on this bed with me the house seems empty without him and i don't know way is all his stuff is just lying at home clinging to whatever hope he can that his desperate search for the son he loves will one day and well preassure either party new delhi india to the arena here next with the latest business after a short break. this

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her welcome to business here in r.t. thanks for joining me this hour germany has called for the introduction of independent european rating agencies following the recent downgrades and credit ratings of eurozone members the proposal would see them become an alternative to u.s. based agencies such as standard and poor's and fitch european officials say their move complicate the currency union's efforts to endure the worsening debt crisis however simon for them fletcher former nice's of asset managers is skeptical about the creation of european agencies. the astonishment of a european only. she's a little it's a little on the silly sigh and it's basically the sort of slap down saying we don't like what you've said so we're going to set up a rather easy independent to report is it only going to be specifically for europeans and i use the whole raft of questions but fundamentally it's basically saying i'm pretty unhappy with what your club saying i'm going to go from join my

own club. who has ignored warnings from the french rating agency which has lowered its forecast for russia's credit rating it's gaining some strength as exporters so foreign currencies ahead of the tax period. of from b. to b. capital says that future prospects for the ruble remain stable despite the economic uncertainty. for. the most conservative of the wall. the current is the strongest in the last several years so far for it to percent of g.d.p. huge current. flow at least it won't be that strong cold will for their due to your system capable of flaws the bickle for approach and presidential elections additionally. shifted from february to march he is the list but there are still quite a few on the ruble. for the year at least. let's look at the markets now first.

and it's gaining crude is trading at three day high pushing for a faster. rate in imports than saudi arabia or minister was reported as saying that the world's biggest exporter wants to keep prices at one hundred dollars a barrel and year's european markets have been comfortably in the black for all of the trading day so far despite multiple downgrades e.c.v. president mario draghi said that investors had already priced in the growth of downgrades anyway and questioned the importance of the credit rating agencies following the s. and p. downgrade of. euro countries. the russian markets surged just as oil is the r.t.s. is gaining who almost one half percent of the my xix is just over a percent most of the blue chips are trading in the black strong oil is supporting energy majors. half a percent dollars among the top gainers all reports its subsidiary north goals will

become a separate company and stock trading in london and was hydro was also on the rise after be back by eleven percent in the producer he will spend the money to finance its investment program his. you could be capital with more. of the. most of. the fun flows we've seen almost a record in full in the first couple weeks of the year in the first half of two thousand and eleven with saw major influence in the russian style some of those were basically wiped out in the second half naturally and there's so will again look at russia's emerging markets will be the only workers that will have growth significant growth of it in two thousand and twelve and is near and then surely in the stores will be coming back and so market having by observations to significantly reduce their exposure to russia so this will be something to keep in our. gazprom has reached

a compromise after its foreign partners asked for more flexible pricing the dow jones cites a company representative saying they will get discounts on long term gas supply contract the list of firms include companies from germany austria slovakia italy france it said gas promised still are going to increase export volumes. prices. a morgan stanley will say fund has agreed to buy the largest mall in russia's northern capital st petersburg deals worth around one point one billion dollars according to sources close to the to the deal the mall that was opened two years ago morgan stanley from a group of investors from kazakhstan if the shopping centers changes hands successfully the deal be the largest in russia's real estate market. that's all for now but don't forget you can always find most always just log on to our website r t dot com slash business.

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with much stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines. here with r t live from moscow our top stories russia launches its latest bid to rally the un around a resolution to bring peace to syria as the country sinks deeper into violet's moscow says the draft is balanced and rules out foreign military intervention calling for syria's wearing sides to lay down arms. or resume iran over the nuclear scientist murder that's being part of the blame on israel which is feared to have started a cold war terror operation or russia warns that any military action against tehran could spell disaster as consequences for the region. plus no turning

back for thousands of and two corporate occupied protesters in america who are preparing to descend on congress as it returns from the holidays for months on and there's no sign of backing down from their demand that the richest one percent stops making money at everyone else's expense. next political activist alonso rah explains why he thinks the united europe isn't on feasible concept and that his native france needs a completely that. that's a day we're joined by he's a french writer and founder of the political think tank equality and reconciliation and he's considered by many as a controversial figure in france for his political stand that more often than not goes against the status quo and for comments that push the envelope on topics that are generally considered taboo well mr saul thanks very much for joining us today or first question is what is it that you.