live from our studios in central moscow you're watching archie with me and you say now it's six pm here in the russian capital four pm in damascus the u.n. security council is sept to mull over a new russian draft resolution aimed at ending syria's violence moscow says the text is balanced calling on all sides to lay down arms in syria itself two lawmakers have turned their backs on the regime claiming the deadly crackdown on the opposition in the flashpoint city of homes is escalating or sisera 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. i suspect were people more numbers than at any of the tragic death of foreign journalists killed just here in homs recently served as yet another remind the harrowing the precarious situation

the people in the city are and the other way to go but. that's you know what. they are going to get was waiting for that are you moved why do kids from this school in the hot area where i was living. area. of 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 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.j.

enjoy. the conflict in syria right now is looking increasingly like a civil war in the towns and cities like homs to the shame resistance is the rules and thousands of people have fled the city can't imagine anyone wanting to live here now not everyone can leave across the country right now civilian safety is hugely under threat outbreaks of violence seen cayle sick and fractured and cooper tween the conflicting sides is the. people like this he was suffering under we are not completely would be ok with our government. and one hundred percent and we are not against what they are doing. they are getting out of they are killing our future they are killing our people and our children this is the devastating reality of syria's uprising yet neither the government all the

opposition seem willing to lay down their arms and proceed dialogue with storage units. the. number of the those who are killed is a skeleton we were accustomed to about twenty people but a day being killed about thirty it's sad 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 be caught in the crossfire. in the city of homs. well to keep across hours updates from inside syria through her online blog which is that our team dot com. russia wants to ensure the un doesn't sanction a military intervention in syria the united states and its european allies want the syrian regime targeted and president assad out but the kremlin also rebuffed calls

from touts are to send an arab the forces with more on these developments here is you catherine. 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 there 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 armed 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 because 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 putin 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 see we. both get some analysis now from beirut based mideast affairs expert at the risk thanks for being with us this evening russia's trying to ratchet up support here for its draft resolution among fellow security council members they've not seen eye to eye yet what are the chances of ever finding common ground. well of course there are always chances to find common ground but you have to also look at this from the perspective of the united states or other states and its

allies there you view that syria is a very primary a very important part of his confrontation with iran so the u.s. of course views syria as a card to play with its ongoing feud with iran for this reason you're seeing that the u.s. is continuing to insist on this issue on this issue of taking a serious security council and escalating against syria now the chances of any fruitful results or any solution would be that the u.s. finds common ground with iran once the u.s. is able to reach a solution when it comes to iran then i think you'll see the u.s. being more responsive to the russian russian measures all the russian proposals to solve the syrian issue so you can look at the syrian file regardless or separate from the whole bigger regional package and so as i said if there is an effort or if there are any further results in the standoff between the united states and iran then i think you're going to see the u.s. being more responsive to the russian measures i believe that william burns the u.s.

official was in moscow i think that was part of his discussions as well it's also very interesting to note that the turkish foreign minister ahmed toward all gluey is on shuttle diplomacy he'll be visiting both moscow and washington and the question here which arises how can this hope to contribute to a solution so i think there might be some positive results there might be some success on the ground because i do sense that when it comes to our the states and the iran it is true that we are seeing some escalation but we also see some windows of opportunity some dialogue we know that iran confirmed the president obama sent a letter to the iranian supreme leader ayatollah seyyed ali khamenei the contents of the letter one of uncovered but there are some conflict going on some interesting developments and i think that regardless obvious collation there are some positive points. i do also think that this is a kind of posit that atmosphere or heading towards some kind of a solution will lead to more more positive responses to the russian proposals when

it comes to the syrian issue. that it is a solution military intervention in syria what do other members of the arab league think about intervention. walcott is the only country which is the only arab country which has made this proposal and i think that even some western countries were very clear in their stance toward this you know even france which has been very vocal in its opposition of bashar assad didn't give a very clear stance when it comes to this to this proposal you have to remember here that qatar and maybe even turkey as well their main aim is to be a leading sunni voice in the region be a leading sunni voice on how much been just them for example the prime minister and foreign minister believes himself to be the leading one how the figure in the region is for this reason that he's being so supportive of the. figures and he's being so supportive as well of the muslim brotherhood in syria so i'm not sure if

the proposal will get the support of the other other countries western countries or our other arab countries the only arab country which has the soyuz maybe to intervene which has a military of a size to intervene is egypt and egypt is procope up with its own internal problems so i think this is mere rhetoric which we're hearing from cult i don't think would have the support of the arabs nor would it have the support of so in western powers will the arab league still has a few days to carry out its observer mission before presenting a final report what results are you expecting from that report. well the arab league was very clear it has said that the that there was cooperation from the syrian side it also has said that there have been groups however there will be pressure from the west to take an attitude or take a position which is more so i'm not sure if the report will reflect truly the far

facts on the ground but i think that the report will be will be politicized in order to show that there are some victims in order to show that our side for example and the syrian army are still practicing oppression so i am quite pessimistic because there will be a lot of politicization in this regard however in the end it all comes down to the more regional perspective the regional showdown for example if tomorrow we have some kind of positive development when it comes to the iranian issue and that the u.s. and iran will ease the tension or it is the escalation then that will click quickly reflect positively on the syrian matter however if there is no progress made on the u.s. iranian front i think you're going to be seeing more politicization of the arab league observers and probably going to see more escalation however this escalation i don't think will lead to any military intervention from any side whatsoever whether our or foreign just briefly western sanctions against damascus saw the syrian economy

lose billions of dollars last year what are the factors that had on the ongoing violence though and how do you think that the international community can stop the killing. well the best way to stop the killing i believe is to to reach a political solution to contribute to the political settlements there that's what the russians themselves have said they had called on the us for example to contribute in order to reach a political solution whereby maybe the syrian leadership of bashar assad together with the syrian opposition or at least some elements of the syrian opposition can share power there has been talk for example of you giving the post of prime minister to one of the legitimate opposition figures and on that note i have to tell you was although i have information that the syrian opposition now is currently in iran some of our opposition figures are in iran so there are efforts being made by the allies of bashar assad in russia in iran in order to facilitate i political process which might see i power sharing deal which we have all sides of i

can answer your question i think this is the best way in order to to avoid violence now really with respect to the economy how that has a an effect there are of course this is an economic sanctions were very bruising very harmful however measures were taken by some allies of syria iran for example some economic activity is trying to make up for the syrian losses together with russia as well so i do think that the economic sanctions yes they were quite a painful but i think that there have been measures taken to compensate for that and in the end i'm quite optimistic that u.s. and iran might see a bit more high tide which will reflect positively on the syrian issue and maybe it will make the russians achieve success in their efforts to rival vive can be a word many is the expert allie reese thank you very much for your time. iran's made a rast over last week's nuclear scientists killing i won't say who but suspicions are that it's not western calls for military intervention are growing something

russia says would be disastrous polls there are reports now on how the fear is that a covert operations already 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 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 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 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. and. this is

a very. respectable grumble notion but. iran has many i mean is. there. and it's not your 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 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 policy r.t. jerusalem. well the rating agencies keep raining the blows on a beleaguered euro now the euro zone's fragile balance fund has been downgraded again at standard and poor's the firm which the moated nine nations and step france and austria their top statuses those downgrades meant the rescue fund lost one

hundred eighty billion euros and 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 france's position high but president sarkozy saying s. and p. a solitary move won't affect his debt reduction policy but as are two years later this hour it's the currency not the credit scores or the root of the problem. 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 mass treat 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 the european union

was meant to bring down unemployment bring prosperity security but instead it brought on employment the adoption of the euro inflated prices because do you just realisation especially in france it may be better for germany if you do 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 r t business how the as and p. downgrade failed to take investor confidence on europe's trading floors. markets have been comfortably in the black for all the trading day so far investors away priced in the downgrades and questioned the importance. ok quick rating agency join me for more on that and others of course. but first america's anti-corporate occupy protesters are starting to hear 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 will fall on deaf ears as representatives reconvene after the holidays campaigners were also hold one eye on the police in case there's another heavy had a break up of their gathering but began in september on wall street spread across the country but the goal remains the same to stop the riches from robbing regular citizens of a livelihood as kind it's to can now look for. 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 a personally i don't know any young pharmacist that are starting their own business like that competition c.v.s. rite aid all that you 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 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 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 but 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

a nineteen eighty-four was three times higher than it is now for the same age group millions of people's quality of life is diminished for the profits of a handful of the 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 but 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. when other news right. so watchers have been pouring over vladimir putin's plans for his presidential campaign the prime minister sent out his stall on how he'd solve his problems from poverty to corruption if elected again in march political analyst xander to give on love says

gordon is well aware of the challenges ahead i think this will be a clear refiling 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's calling a new economy to the built. in the gravitation away from dependence on oil rigs high spending and nice the role of the opposition leaders as proposed any mechanism is going to give people more mall pensions 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 this. but you can read prime minister putin's planned for yourself his article is available

online at our team dot com it's coming up to twenty four minutes past the hour let's have a look at some other news from around the world and telling them coastguards reported they say that five more bodies have been found on the sunken cruise liner hopes have been fading for the twenty nine people still missing from the disaster where six are already dead the italian navy is now using explosives to get into parts of the vessel which capsized after hitting a reef off the italian coast on friday it's a word that the captain did abandon ship before it was fully evacuated and could face manslaughter charges. insurgents in iraq have attacked a checkpoint killing five policeman bringing the total number of deaths already this year to one hundred fifty five it took place in the town of rock as police guarded a border highway with jordan in a former al qaeda stronghold the country has seen a wave of violence since u.s. troops withdrew at the end of last year. trial of egypt's former president

hosni mubarak has been adjourned until wednesday just hours after it resumed his lawyers had opened their defense to claims that the eighty three year old allowed the killing of eight hundred fifty during last year's uprising which ousted him prosecutors want mubarak to face the death penalty you have today at this hour from the news desk arenas here with the latest business. welcome to our business update that germany has called for the introduction of independent european rating agencies following the recent downgrades and quick ratings of european 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 moves complicate the currency union's efforts to endure the worsening debt crisis however simon father fletcher from the nascence asset managers is skeptical about

the creation of european agencies. the establishment of a european only. she's a little it's a little on the silly side it's basically the sort of slap down saying we don't going point you've said so we're going to set up a road. independent observer report is it only going to be specifically for europeans and it's no use the whole raft of questions but fundamentally it's basically saying only one pretty unhappy with your club saying i'm going to go run off and join my own club. let's take a look at the markets now first of all it's gaining crude is trading near a three day high france is pushing for faster and forced much of an iranian import ban while saudi arabia's oil minister was reported as saying that the world's biggest exporter wants to keep prices at one hundred dollars a pound. and europe markets have been comfortably in the black for all of the trading day so far despite multiple downgrades u.c.b. president mario draghi said investors had already priced in those downgrades anyway

and questioned the importance of the credit rating agencies following the s. and p. downgrade of nine euro countries. and russian markets surged to five weeks high as oil climbs up. over one percent this hour most of the blue chips are trading in the black stronger although supporting energy majors gazprom is adding over one percent steelmaker savers star is among the top gainers all reports its subsidiary nord gold will become a separate company and start trading in london hydro is also on the rise up to be bank agreed to by eleven percent in the hydropower producer it will spend the money to finance its investment program. russia has agreed on unique tax benefits for the united arab emirates in order to attract more investment from the oil rich nation the new system applies to the country's state institutions which will no

longer have to pay tax for the dividends on investments in russia the agreement is yet to be ratified by the country's governments but the head of russia's direct investment fund with the of says the deal will bring huge benefits. the total investment capital managed by the united arab emirates stands a trillions of dollars and even if a small piece of that comes to russia it will be a significant amount of money and that's why i think we're talking about billions of dollars even the projects we currently discussed with our arabic partners involves sums from five hundred million to several billion dollars so we're talking about serious and big investments. and that's the business news for this hour join me in about fifteen minutes from one.

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video on demand all teasing my world comes an r.s.s. feed now in the palm of your. on the call. at six thirty pm moscow time these other top stories on our chief russell launches its latest bid to rally the un around a resolution to bring peace to syria as the country sinks deeper into violence moscow says the draft is balanced and moves out foreign military intervention calling for syria's warring sides to lay down arms and. iran makes arrests over last week's nuclear scientists murder won't confirm with being held but there's a.