from our studios in central moscow you're watching are two with me and you said now it's four pm here in the russian capital two pm in damascus and the u.n. security council is set to mull over a new russian draft resolution aimed at ending syria's violence moscow says the tax is balanced calling on all sides to lay down arms in syria itself to lawmakers have turned their backs on the regime claiming the deadly crackdown on the opposition in the flashpoint city of homes is escalating or to sour firth is there. 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 she's either shut down were people numbers that any of you know having the tragic death of foreign journalist children here in homs recently served as yet another reminder of the harrowing really precarious situation that people in the city are and the other way to go but

below the fence you know what. they are going to live and waiting for that are you moved why do kids from their school in the heart area where i was living. area. they can't stop you well this is not your normal life it's our land it's our home syria ok we cannot we we don't want to leave our homes we don't want to leave our schools we just want to leave peacefully people have been telling us that the sky is to leave their homes across the city want to show it's just food shortages power cuts are extremely common winces here and it's hard for some people to even heat the homes survival here 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 t.t. danger. film 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 he usually under threats outbreaks of violence seen cayle sick and fractured and cool between the conflicting sides is the. people like this he was suffering are not completely would be ok with that government. and one hundred percent are not against it what they are doing. the young people they are getting those they are getting cold future they are killing people and old children this is the devastating reality as syria's uprising hit me that the government all

the opposition seemed willing to lay down their arms and proceed dialogue with storage units to. the total. number of the those what killed is that. we were accustomed to about twenty people but they being killed about thirty so to say that it's going to continue such more more more killing and say these people waiting taping and praying they will their children will be next to the courts in the crossfire. in the city of. god so. you can keep across hours updates from inside syria through her online blog which is available for you at our t. dot com now russia wants to ensure that the u.n. doesn't sanction a military intervention in syria us 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 here if you've got three not. but russia has long been trying to many of the conflict in syria by bringing both sides to dialogue and trying to find peaceful solution to the crisis it also says that further attempts should be made to engage with official damascus that boy described the syrian opposition as rejection of dialogue with the authorities says 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 were provoking the government in that country russia condemns both the government and the opposition and don't go in violence and also believe that the cold should be sold by the syrians themselves without any outside military to fear it's russia of

course fears that syria could pull the possibly via that weakness to military intervention we know that russia insists urges for a thorough probe into nato action operation in libya saying that it has gone far beyond the approved mandate meanwhile russia fully supports the arab league observers mission in syria that came to the country late december however most those 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 and its policy are 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 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 for more crippling sanctions quoting the secretary of state clinton then israel

would take the initiative and strike along some wonder if israel hasn't already declared an unofficial war on terror and what suspicions raised further after the assassination of another iranian nuclear scientist earlier this month while on his way to work putting everything together it is clear that whoever it is but if someone or somebody or some agency is very successful in infiltrating understanding and 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 israel and the united states this is a very respectable grumbler nation but. iran has many many rumors and. is as good as mine and

it's not beyond 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 when it's the most blatant sign that an attacks coming but no one in israel will come on record and say there is a covert war on iran all talk of an israeli strike is limited to the airwaves policia r t jerusalem. also had for you this hour of the tragedy of india's lost children thousands go missing in the camp every year you are at her found we'll explain why. but first america's anti corporate occupy protesters are starting the year as they mean to go on digging in with their demos as they 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 regular citizens of a widely hood that's going to china now reports. the dream of starting their own business may stay just a dream for most young americans armed with college. to greece 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 and 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 or are going away rapidly a personally i

don't know any young pharmacist that are starting their own business like that competition c.b.s. friday the 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 changes can't give. them 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 they 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 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 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 eighty's but many can't find even such relative stability these days according to a report by peter hart research associates a quarter of workers under the age of thirty five in the us can't pay their monthly bills another study shows the average net worth of those under thirty five a nineteen eighty-four was three times higher than it is now for the same age group millions of people's quality of life it's is the minish for the

profits of a handful of immense stores and corporations 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 of decades and the question many ask is what kind of future can they build and what will be the for the next generation i'm going to check our reporting from washington our take. on the rating agencies keep raining blows on a beleaguered europe now the euro zone's front bellafante has been downgraded again in standard and poor's the firm words to moated ninety you nations instead france and austria of their top statuses those downgrades meant the rescue fund lost one hundred eighty billion euros in aaa guarantees and that's not its own score down as a result better news for france is that the other major ratings firms are keeping

presence position high with president sarkozy saying s. and p's solitary move won't affect its debt reduction policy but as our team hears later this hour it's the currency not the credit scores who are the root of the problem. for you to deceive and when you look at the reality of the past twenty years the european union has changed very little by the way if we remember back then we were still having rough. randoms on such decisions so the must reach referendum got through but in the second referendum on the lisbon treaty the french voted no in arland 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 at all your opinion 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 the s.n.p. downgrade failed to shake investor confidence on europe's trading floors. european markets were up throughout the whole day today however germany calls for setting up an independent european weighting agency after the recent downgrades and quit waiting for a nine year member states join me for more of that in our best policy. where russia watchers have been pouring over vivier putin's plans its 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 in march in april political analyst alexander save on love says putin's well aware of the challenges ahead. i

think this will be a clarifying it will do much to bridge the gap in understanding between the opposition and the protesters in the streets we see if that's the prime minister understands all those challenges that rashi stacie and has been facing. the previous two decades what he's calling for is a new economy to built. the reputation away from dependence on oil rigs high spending and nice are all the opposition leaders thousand proposed any mechanisms how they're going to give people mall pensions and cell arrays so there are actually no reserves where they're going to take it from the obviously cannot take it from the air and put in as also stress this. just a correction there for you the elections of course are on march the fourth not in

april and you can read prime minister putin's plans for yourself we have his article available for you online at r.t. 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 to 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 playwright all their bookshelves . 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 groans may have been wrong footed by an american radar in alaska to me that are our goals and also wants an investigation into why frequent disruptions of russian space technologies occur

the probe was launched from the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan on november nine to collect soil from a martian moon but shortly after it fell to head 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 is 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 by as police guarded a border highway with jordan the area is

a former al qaeda stronghold many iraqis fear the 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. a seizure of a town one hundred sixty kilometers south of the capital as militants take advantage of rest which is calling for longtime leader president that day 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 as british reader 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 mars twelve year old son 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 their 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 sides are they getting the kids. kumara son like most missing kids in delhi was alert away while playing from a porn neighborhood like this one many family members of missing people say that they believe that they're often ignored by police because they lack money and power and in many cases they're asked to pay i have to be if they ever want to see their loved ones again i told the police 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 are 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 r.t. new delhi india to bring him here next with the latest business after story broke.

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around russia we've got the future covered. there are 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 a former nice as an asset managers is skeptical about the creation of european agencies the establishment of a european only changes a little it's a little on the silly side it's basically it's for the slap down and saying we don't like what you've said so we're going to set up a road is it independent countries are reports or is it only going to be

specifically for europeans and that's why the whole raft of questions but fundamentally it's basically saying i'm pretty unhappy with what your pub saying i'm going to go run off and join my own club. google has ignored warnings from the fitch 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 because of from b. to b. capital says that future prospects for the ruble remain stable despite the economic uncertainty. we've got. metrics for the most conservative on the wall. the current is the strongest and you during the last several years so far forty eight percent of g.d.p. you are current to. some difficult. at least it won't be that strong cold will for their abode due to your system capable of flaw in the biblical for approach and presidential elections traditionally are only for their

ability to be shifted from february to march april 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 of all and it's gaining crude is trading at three day high france is pushing for a faster fourth month of a radiant import than was saudi arabia or the 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 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 to five week high as oil is off the r.t.s. is gaining through almost one half percent at the my xix is just over a percent most of the blue chips are trading in the black as strong oil is

supporting energy majors. half a percent severs talers among the top gainers all reports its subsidiary north gold will become a separate company and stock trading in london and was hiding was also on the rise after the bank agreed to buy eleven percent in the hydropower producer it will spend the money to finance its investment program here's a cost of 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 to remind you in the first half of two thousand and eleven with stuart majoring in the russian stock symbol of the world basically what out there in the second half naturally and there's so will again look at russia as the emerging markets will be the only workers that will have growth significant growth of eight in two thousand and twelve and actions near and then surely industries 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. gazprom has reached a compromise afterwards foreign partners asked for more flexible pricing the dow jones cites a company representative saying they will get discounts in long term gas supply contract the list of firms include companies from germany austria slovakia italy france said gas promise still are going to increase export volumes to the spot prices in europe. a morgan stanley real estate 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 more was open two years ago morgan stanley will buy 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. well that's

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