there's a bit of. that seven pm here in moscow this is r g coming to you live with me and you so now and thanks for being with us straight to our top story the u.n. security council is set 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 to lawmakers have turned their backs on the regime claiming the deadly crackdown on the opposition in the flashpoint city of homs is escalating sarah firth is there for r.t. . it's been less than a month since we were last in homes in that time the situation's become even more dangerous and the pressure on the people living here show is i suspect we're people most numbers than at any of us having the tragic death of

a foreign journalist killed just here in homs recently served as yet another reminder the harrowing the precarious situation the people in the city are in the odd way to go but. that's you know what. they are going to get out of that waiting for that are you moved why do kids from this school in the hot 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 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. enjoying. the armed conflict in syria right now is looking increasingly like a civil war in the towns and cities like homs to the shame resistance is in the rules and thousands of people have fled the city can't imagine anyone wanting to live here now not everyone can leave across the country right now civilian safety is 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 our government. and one hundred percent and we are not against it what they are doing. the gun people they are getting goals that they

are killing our future our they are killing our people over children this is the devastating reality of syria's uprising it means that the government all the opposition seem willing to lay down their arms and proceed dialogue the storage unit. the total. number of the those what killed is a skeleton we were accustomed to about twenty people but a day being killed about thirty so to say that it's going to continue such more more more killing and say these people waiting hate being in praying they will their children will be next to be caught in the crossfire. in the city of homs. but keep across hours updates from inside syria from her online blog which is that r.t. dot com russia wants to ensure the u.n.

doesn't say mission a military intervention in syria the u.s. and its european allies want the regime targeted and president also out the kremlin also rebuffed calls from tap hard to send an arab league forces with more on these developments here. but russia has long been trying to mediate the conflict in syria by bringing both sides to dialogue and trying to find a 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 nonproductive an absolutely incorrect almost it 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 because should be sold by the syrians themselves

without any outside miller trying 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 in late december however most of those stresses that the arab league is also not authorized to send peacekeepers to syria. now the arab league observer mission is expected to present its findings later this week and will then decide the future of its efforts over syria which could involve asking the u.n. to intervene when you sexpert on the risk things arab states are being steered into a bias 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. i'm not sure if that the report will reflect truly the far facts on the ground but i think that the report will be will be politicized that 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 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 the only arab country which has a soyuz maybe to intervene which has a military officer has to intervene is egypt and he jumped to his pro coupled with his own internal problem so i think this is mere rhetoric which we're hearing from cult i don't think would have the support of meow robes nor would it have the support of sudden western powers as will. iran made arrests over last week's

nuclear scientists killing of all say who but suspicions are that it's mossad western calls for military intervention are growing which russia says would be disastrous policy there are now reports on how the fear is that a covert israeli operation is 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 their views he thinks around a million rain ians tune in and the topic they most want to talk about the possibility of a foreign attack on iran 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 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 it's someone all somebody or some agency is very successful in infiltrating understanding and last subatomic theory new nuclear for 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 grammar notion but. iran has. you. and. your. 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 for you man 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 air waves. well antiwar activists brian packer says the crisis in iran around iran's nuclear program is being fabricated by the us through sanctions or squarely aimed at

bringing down the regime the united states government has created an artificial crisis that's first and foremost it's a manufactured crisis aronne is complying with the. iran does not have a nuclear weapon iran is not 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 allow. inspectors into its country so there's not really a nuclear menace or a nuclear danger from iran so what is the cause what's the cause of the crisis of the artificial crisis the real goal is the united states government has embarked on a course of extreme economic aggression against iran with the hope that by creating economic suffering economic isolation economic misery that part of the population will rise up or become disenfranchised with the government so that the u.s.

can do as it has in history carry out regime change. still ahead for you this hour the tragedy of india's lost children thousands go missing in the capital every year if you are ever found we explain why. the first america's and corporate occupy protesters are starting the years they need to go on digging in with their demos as they clock up four months of the campaign thousands are due outside congress later on tuesday hoping their demands won't fall on deaf ears as representatives reconvene after the holidays are she's going to is in washington and now joins us live. right now what exactly do occupiers have planned for today. well on this on this rainy day in washington d.c. they are expecting around five thousand people to show up they haven't approved reserved space on the lawn in front of the u.s.

capitol building they're not supposed to have problems with the police unless someone decides otherwise and of course i'll be here to keep you posted on that it's going to be a one day rally and now we see the opera movement sort of moving their focus from wall street onto capitol hill in their drive to fight the influence of money and special interests in u.s. politics they sense that when the interests of big corporations are at stake on capitol hill their voice they're in for no longer count they call themselves the ninety nine percent very angry at the fact that the you florence of money is only set to grow in the u.s. politics the supreme court decision now allows corporations to funnel as much money as they want into candidates and protesters see it as part of the problem they may call it legalized corruption they're mad at the cozy relationship between lawmakers and big business is not coziness led to the complete lack of oversight over a wall street that i mentioned we led to the financial crisis of two thousand and eight and that price is affected not just americans but the whole world so the

protesters want money out of politics but it's easier said than done and there is a lot of skepticism. a lot of people are skeptical about whether these protests can actually change something well it's interesting you said today's protest was a one time thing but really occupy is known for its occupying the people setting up tents and camping out not going anywhere it's been four months in the movement doesn't really show any big signs of dying down but really you asked the question what impact is it having on america what are people talking about. well exactly and he said i mean the movement is around well of forty five months old we've been covering it extensively as you know and it has certainly evolved now we have less of the cancer across the country because authorities you know in a number of cities on the different pretenses evicted protesters out of their occupied locations but yet there are more we see more of these one time actions one

day rallies like this one on capitol hill it has been a very peaceful movement as a whole but they received in some cities they received harsh treatment for the police police used tear gas on them and there has been loss of red throughout six thousand people have been arrested in the last five months there. will be in washington for us throughout the day as occupiers make their way to capitol hill. well the rating agencies keep raining the blows on of the leader of europe now the euro zone's fragile balance fund has been downgraded again it's standard and poor's the firm which demoted nine nations and stripped france and austria their top satis says those downgrades meant the rescue found last one hundred eighty billion euros in aaa guarantees and that's marked its own score down as a result better news for france is that the other major ratings firms are keeping it in its high position with president sarkozy saying s.

and p's solitary move won't affect his debt redact reducing policies but is r.t. here is next hour it's the currency not the credit scores who are the root of the problem. is that 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 our land they voted no it was rejected by the people but then forcibly the 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 that it may be better for germany they could 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. but russia watchers have been pouring over of lead to hear putin's plans for his presidential campaign the prime minister set out his stall on how he'd solve russia's problems from poverty to corruption if elected again in march political analyst alexander sivana of says putin's well aware of the challenges ahead. i think this will be a clarifying issue it will do much good 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 full of the previous two decades what he's calling for is a new economy to built. the gravitation away from

dependence on oil reserves high spending and nice they're all the opposition latest thousand proposed any mechanisms how they're going to give people more pensions and cell arrays 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 as also stress this. you can read prime minister putin's plans for yourself we have this article online at our t.v. dot com and while you're there you can find an information blackout the world's most popular online encyclopedia will go on strike on wednesday because of the anti-piracy bills that are passing through the u.s. congress. and suspending shakespeare why a school board in the states has taken the iconic playwright its books out.

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 group may have been wrong footed by an american radar to meet that argos and also wants an investigation into why there are frequent disruptions of russian space technologies the probe was launched from baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan on november the knife to collect soil from a martian moon shortly after it fell to had its course to mars and remains stuck in earth's orbit eventually it came down in the pacific ocean on sunday. a look at some world news in brief for you this hour five more bodies have been found inside the cruise liner that capsized off the italian coast the coast guard says the four men and one woman were discovered in life jackets at the front of the

vessel bringing the total number of deaths to eleven several others are still missing it's emerged that the captain abandoned ship before it was fully evacuated and was ordered to back ordered back i should say onto the coast of concordia by coast guards. insurgents in iraq have attacked a checkpoint killing five policeman and means one hundred fifty five people have now died in violence since the beginning of the year the latest assault took place as police guarding the border highway with jordan in a former al qaeda stronghold iraq has seen a wave of attacks since u.s. troops left at the end of last year. the trial of egypt's former president hosni mubarak has been adjourned until wednesday just hours after it resumed his lawyers had opened their defense against 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 but. yemen's foreign minister says months of protests and political instability could mean february's upcoming presidential election won't happen on time in a t.v. interview he said the country has to do with its security issues before voting can start it follows al qaeda seeds or a town one hundred sixty kilometers south of the capital as militants take advantage of the unrest which is calling for president so they to quit. now thousands of children disappear from new delhi's packed city streets every year many are abducted and never heard from again some even having their organs removed and sold and as previous reader reports there are desperate families 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 rout 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 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 who you know but the kids are kept in places where no one will be able to find them they're also kidnapped for the organ trade business that don't sion and also to

begin with. kumara son like most missing kids in delhi was alert away while playing from a poor neighborhood like this one reading 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 a fee if they ever want to see their loved ones again i told the police they only say that maybe my brother is somewhere in the park or sleeping in some temple or staying at a friend's place delhi police say that while they know they face a massive problem things are getting better while in the past eighteen children in delhi would go missing every day this year that number is closer to ten organisations working to help the families of the missing say that while the police need to do more they're overburdened and understaffed. we're also trying to pressure the court to order the police to take serious steps in this issue to watch out for the child in railway stations and bus to pose 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 annoying 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 it was up next on our today it's the latest business with kareena stay with us. thank you only say hello and welcome to our business update this hour germany has called for the introduction of independent european rating agencies following the recent downgrades in credit ratings of eurozone members now the proposal would see

them become an alternative to u.s. based agencies such as standard and poor's and fish and european officials say their moves complicated there will complicate the currency union's efforts to ensure the worsening debt crisis however simon further fletcher from our nascent asset managers is skeptical about the creation of european nations. the establishment of a european only. she's a little it's a little on the silly side it's basically a slap down saying we don't want what you've said so we're going to sit about. independent films or report is that only going to be specifically for europeans and these are huge whole raft of questions but fundamentally it's me she going on i'm pretty unhappy with your club saying i'm going to go run off and join my own club. let's have a look at the markets no oil is gaining crude is trading near three day high france is pushing for faster enforcement of an iranian import bound while saudi arabia's oil minister was reported as saying that the world's biggest exporter wants to keep

prices one hundred dollars a barrel u.s. stocks and bonds at the opening equities are rising along with the euro debt auctions by spain greece and europe spade out funk are drawing solid interest from investors all that is easing fears that the recent quick rating downgrade would prevent troubled nations from obtaining bonds the european markets have been comfortably in the but for all of the trading day the rally was inspired by better than expected growth data from china u.k.'s footsie is bored by a four point six percent rise for world bank of scotland group and in germany the dax index is over one and a quarter percent in the black with carmaker dying their three point nine percent. and the russian markets climbed to a five week high on tuesday as rising or the metal prices boost produces both the r.t.s. and my six and around one a half percent in the black strong oil supported energy majors gazprom added almost two percent steelmaker severs was among the top gainers all reports its subsidiary

north gold will become a separate company and start trading in london hard to also benefit after v.b. bank agreed to buy eleven percent in the hydropower producer it will spend the money to finance its investment program. well she has agreed on you need tax benefits for the united arab emirates that's 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 no longer have to pay tax for their dividends on investments and russia the agreement is yet to be ratified by the country's governments but the head of russia's direct investment fund keogh in the mitri of says that the deal will bring huge benefits. the total investment capital managed by the united arab emirates stanza trillions of dollars and you would have a small piece of that comes to russia it will be a significant amount of money that's why i think we're talking about billions of dollars even the projects we currently discussed with arabic partners involved sums

from five hundred million to several billion dollars so we're talking about serious and big investments. here morgan stanley real estate fund has agreed to buy the largest mall in russia's northern capital st petersburg the deal is worth around one point one billion dollars that's according to sources close to the transaction the mall was opened two years ago when stanley will buy it from a group of investors from kazakhstan if a shopping center changes hands successfully the deal would be the largest in russia's real estate market. that's the business news for this hour but you can always find most stories on our website last. do little.

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with r.t. barred 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's things deeper into violet's moscow says the draft is balanced and rules out foreign military intervention calling for syria's warring sides to lay down arms. iran makes arrests over last week's nuclear scientists murder it won't confirm who is being held but suspicion is pointing out mossad is growing number of his.