the tragic death of foreign journalist children here in homs recently served as yet another remind the harrowing the precarious situation that people in the city are in the way to go because you know that that's you know what. they are going to live i'm waiting for that are you moved why do kids from their school in the heart area where i was living. area because. this is not you know my 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 keep their homes survival head 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 hand 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 because much of anyone wanting to live head now everyone can leave across the country right now civilian safety is hugely under threat outbreaks of violence seen cayle sick and fractured and call between the conflicting sides is the people like this he was suffering are not completely with with their government. and one hundred percent and we are not against it what they are doing. the young people they are getting us they are killing our future. they are killing people and i will only be doing this is the

devastating reality is syria's uprising me that the government all the opposition willing to lay down their arms and proceed. the storage units to. the. number of the those who was killed. we were accustomed to about twenty people per day being killed. about thirty said to say that it's going to continue such more more death more killing say these people waiting keeping him saying they choose the next week or in the last by and. staying in the city from. very much across developments in cuba across syria's updates from inside syria through her online blog that is of course at r.t. dot com our home page let's get some more inside the plane you know from beirut

based political science professor using doubles professor thanks for coming on the program tonight good to see you and if you now as you just mentioned that we've just seen not one but two more makers defect in damascus they are the most high profile officials to have turned their backs on the regime so far how much support do you think president assad still has at this point ten months on though since this all kicked off. well he seems to have significant support within the power elite you have to remember that as opposed to a lot of the other arab regimes which were caught off guard by the arab spring syria's and the pairing for this for decades they knew when they came to power that they were minority government and they knew they had to expect this sooner or later i would say that syria is more surprised that it took so long for just rebellion to take place so they're very well prepared their power structures are intact it's crumbling on the edges slightly but i would say from a pure power perspective syria's regime is not threatened do you think the surprise

in the assad count by how long this is going on for that i don't think they're surprised no i think that this is what they've been preparing for this is what their security forces what their military has been working for for many decades that if this should come and they assume considering the relatively narrow power base that they have within the population this had to come sooner or later so i have assuming that they're going to try to weather this but that doesn't work is going to be a military crackdown similar to the massacres we saw in the seventy's but we'll talk about how that might be received in a minute just last week assad addressed his support his twice in the in the space of twenty four hours promising that victory against what you call it all around funded terrorists is going to come soon is he being released nicole is there an element i'm taking i think what you're saying so far but is there an element that maybe he's being advised only losing touch with what's really happening. well i think assad has to realize that there is an opposition that has to deal with this opposition as a equal partner i think the west has to realize that on the other hand that there

is a partner which is called the bath party in the current government and that regime change should not be their ultimate goal if both sides would recognize each other i.e. the bad government recognize the opposition and the west recognize that the bath regime is here to stay at least for the foreseeable future i think we have a chance at some serious negotiation. the kind of worst case scenario that if this went on to be a huge crack that i mean cuts i was saying it was out of military intervention in syria turkey's also saying it might consider that if this full crackdown would happen what would the implications be from outside well the fact that the fact that qatar saying that is a clear indication that things are shifting also interestingly enough. the leader of the druze here and lebanon called on the druze of syria not to serve in the army and the police so these are two people both the government of qatar and the leader of the druze here in lebanon tend to have their nose ahead of the crowd if this is

an indication then there is a crackdown in the offing i sincerely doubt that the u.s. after just pulling out of iraq and preparing to pull out of afghanistan is interested in intervening or having and they need to intervention in syria which i'm assuming will not be as smooth comparatively speaking as the instance of libya . could have in the program live from beirut political science professor be with. iran made arrests over the last weeks nuclear scientists killing it won't say who but suspicions of that it's mossad western coals for military intervention a growing which russia says would be disastrous reports next 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 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 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 or more crippling sanctions quoting the secretary of state clinton then israel would take the initiative and strike alone some wonder if

israel hasn't already declared an unofficial war on terror and what suspicions raised further after the assassination of another iranian nuclear scientist earlier this month while on his way to work putting everything together it is clear that whoever it is but it's someone or somebody or some agency is very successful in infiltrating understanding and last sabotaging the iranian nuclear project. the attack is the latest in a series of mysterious accidents linked to iran's nuclear program two aircraft accidents in the space of three years scientists disappearing equipment damaged and computer viruses unleashed and the fingers pointing at israel. and the united states this is a very respectable or grimmer nation but. iran has many enemies 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. 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. jerusalem. america's anti corporate occupy protesters are starting the year is the need to go on digging in with the demos as they clock up for months now the campaign thousands of congress later on tuesday open with demands will fall on deaf ears as representatives reconvene after the holidays what is going to change you can see washington d.c. for a scrawny hi there what exactly are the occupiers planning to do than by. both having their expecting around five thousand people to go out in washington on this rainy rainy day the protesters had

a reserve base on the lawn lighting fina in front of the u.s. capitol building they're not supposed to have problems with the police but we've heard that at least one person has already been arrested because they step outside that model we might see more over coming up in the coming hours and i'll definitely keep it keep you posted on that it's going to be a one day rally they're going to be here all day and what we see is the occupy movement sort of moving. there are folks from wall street on to capitol hill in this drive to fight the influence of money and special interests in washington and they sense that when the interests of big corporations are at stake on capitol hill their voice their interests no longer count they call themselves the ninety nine percent and they're angry at the fact that the influence of money is only step to grow in washington the supreme court has made a decision that allows corporations be funneled as much money you want into candidates here and. legalize option and interesting report came out recently in the last couple of years thirty major u.s.

corporations paid more to lobby congress than they paid in income taxes so now you have an idea why these occupiers are walking with banners that say we can't afford a lobbyist that's why we occupied so they are mad at this whole nation shit between big businesses and lawmakers that coziness led to the complete lack of oversight over which brought about the financial crisis of two thousand and eight you go your reaction affected not just americans but the whole world so they want money out of politics but it's easier said than done and a lot of people are skeptical about whether the protests can actually change something you know. you could your easily grown you've been talking to these pretty ugly things eliminate any progress in the last last year as we head into these new year are you telling me they're still angry but did they actually get anything done did the right people listen did they get in that should. call if

they're. there you can see some shift in the public opinion of course they're raising awareness which is already over the quite good and even a fact that they're actually they want to be heard by their lawmakers they say though the movement is around five months old and it hasn't achieved concrete results there but it might. change it might change in some time and we've been covering the movement extensively of course the movement has evolved and at the beginning now you have less tense across the country authorities in different cities they have a victory of protesters out of there on to five locations but now you have more of these one time actions one day rallies like this one on capitol hill the movement as a whole it's been a largely a very peaceful movement but in some cities police gave the protesters harsh treatment i mean police used tear gas on them as

a member they're having so many rash six thousand arrested in the last five months and we might see more of that as the rally unfolds here in washington and i keep you posted on that the other very much across who talks for most of this is going to come reporting from washington isabel usually here. all right now russia watches have been pouring over vladimir putin's plans for his presidential campaign the problem is to set out his stall on how he would solve russia's problems from poverty to corruption if elected again in march political analysts and xander several analysts 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 that's the prime minister understands the challenges that rashi stacie and has been facing. the previous two decades what he's calling for is

a new economy to built. in and the gravitation away from dependence on oil reserves high spending and nice they're all the opposition leaders as proposed any mechanisms how they're going to give people more more pensions. 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 is also stressed this. you can read prime minister putin's plan for yourself we've got his article online and on t.v. dot com while you're there as well who else can i check out. india battles to tackle tuberculosis is a drug resistant strain of the disease strikes the country. suspending shakespeare why school board in the states has taken the iconic playwright off its book shelves .

the world's most popular online encyclopedia will go on strike on wednesday because of the anti piracy bill that's being pushed through the u.s. congress it's designed to protect copyrighted material but the fear is that it's too vague and could therefore lead to greater censorship let's talk more about this with our own schwartz he's director of the demand progress dot all web site and hi there were completely is not the only major site to go temporarily offline over this stop online piracy act is that why they also are angry and watch this law set to do you know there's a whole number of sites because people understand this bill is going to change the rules for the internet not just in the united states but around the world up to now we've treated the internet like anything else if there's a crime on the internet it's the job of the police to track down the people responsible bring them to justice or hold a trial to decide if they're guilty or not under this bill the rules totally changed it makes everyone who runs a website into

a policeman and if they don't do their job of making sure nobody on their site uses it for anything that's even potentially illegal the entire site gets shut down without even so much as a trial you know to go through it of course the irony here is well is that the u.s. is often criticized in many countries for media and online censorship effectively doing the same thing isn't it. you know it's quite frightening i mean you know this would be the first time in the us that would have the same kind of censorship we see in russia or iran or china so not russia china iran where certain certain websites you can visit them in canada you can visit them in mexico but only americans would be pretty venet from visiting them i did not have to so you can visit any website you like and copyright infringement costs firms billions of dollars a year we can't get away from that fact surely though the counter-argument is that some up to date legislation is necessary to protect people from effectively steven stealing material you can argue against that could. well look i think a lot of the numbers in question by independent researchers it's very unclear

exactly how much is lost to copyright infringement and it's clear that whenever there are legal opportunities to download music and movies they're very popular look at the success of apple's i tunes but the point is even if it were true even if it was a big deal the solution is not going to be getting rid of the entire court system i mean many people are upset about rape but the solution hasn't been no trials for rapists who are suspected we need to continue to have due process because it's worked in every other case there's no reason that the copyright industry should be special and not have to obey the law. without the major websites like this take action madge you think is the us government begins wrapping rules around the internet which is supposedly supposed to be free of control yeah i mean we've seen lots of sites like craigslist it's very popular site in the us reddit dot com a an online news site there's a whole long list of sites that have taken part in the strike because everyone understands this is something very different from the way u.s. laws normally work it's much more extreme and it takes us down a really dangerous path i want to lost mochi yourself where a bit of trouble for

a similar thing is that still progressing. yeah started going you know right there i'm sure it'll tell us about that at some point in the future outsource founder and executive director of demand progress dot org thank you very much thanks so much for having me again. russia's failed mars probe has fallen back to earth but the suspicions over why it didn't work are far from over now russia's deputy prime minister thinks phobos group may have been wrong footed by an american radar meteora goes and also wants an investigation into why there are frequent disruptions these days of russian space technology the probe is launched from the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakstan on november the night to collect soil from the martian moved from boss but after that it failed to hit its course to mars and remain stuck in earth orbit eventually coming down in the pacific ocean on sunday. twenty minutes past eight moscow time all world news in brief five more bodies have been found inside that 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 that now of course brings the total number of deaths to eleven several others are still missing too tonight it's emerged that the captain abandoned ship before it was fully evacuated he was ordered back on to the costa concordia by coast guard. insurgents in iraq attacked a checkpoint killing five policeman and means under fifty five people have now died in violence there since the beginning of the year the latest assault took place as police guarded a border highway with jordan 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 resumes his lawyers had opened their defense against claims that the eighty three year old allowed the killing of eight hundred fifty people during last year's uprising which led to the

ousted prosecutors want to face the death penalty. 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 house to deal with security issues before voting can start it follows old qaida seizure of the town hundred sixty kilometers south of the path with was militants take advantage of your breast which is calling for president saleh to quit. thanks for being with us tonight just let you know we've got sports news coming up shortly including the latest from the australian open tennis but let's get across the business next can we demand a campus here. thank you karen hello and welcome to our business update this hour good to have you with me germany has called for the introduction of independent european rating agencies following the recent downgrades in credit ratings 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 undo the worsening debt crisis however simon for them fletcher from our nation's 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 song and it's basically the sort of slap down saying we don't want to point you've said so we're going to set up a road. independent report he's only going to be specifically for europeans original huge hole wrong of questions but fundamentally it's basically saying i'm pretty unhappy with your pope saying i'm going to go join my own club. let's have a look at the markets no oil is gaining crude is trading near a three day high fronts is pushing for faster and for so much of an iranian import that while saudi arabia's oil minister was reported as saying that the world's biggest export it wants to keep prices at one hundred dollars that the. u.s.

stocks are high in morning trades dead all versions by spain greece any europe's bailout fund drawing sole interest from investors all that is easing fears that the recent credit rating downgrade would prevent troubled nations from obtaining. european markets have been comfortably in the black all of the trading day rally was inspired by better than expected growth data from china case c. is boosted by a four point six percent rise for world bank of scotland group in germany the dax index is over one and a quarter percent in the black with car make a dime there three point nine percent. and the russian markets climbed to five week high on tuesday as rising all the metals prices producers both theology as it lies extended around one and a half percent in the black strongbow all supported energy majors at almost two percent still maker severstal was among the top gainers reports its subsidiary nord

gold will become a separate company and start trading in london and hydro also benefited from the bank agreed to by eleven percent in the producer it will spend the money to finance its investment program. russia has agreed to tag benefits tax benefits for the united arab emirates in order to attract more investment or rich nation a new system applies to the country's state institutions which will no longer have to pay tax for their dividends. yet to be ratified by the country's government but the head of russia's direct investment fund says that the deal will bring. the total investment capital managed by the united arab emirates stanza trillions of dollars and even if 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 our arabic partners involved sums from five hundred million to several billion dollars so we're talking about serious and big investments are required for a more. russia's northern capitals. the deals worth around one point one billion dollars that's according to sources close to the transaction the galleria mall was opened two years ago morgan stanley will buy it from a group of investors from. the deal could be the largest. market. but join me in about fifteen minutes from one.

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why from moscow to choose the evening of watching our two international off top stories for you russia launches its latest bid to rally the un around a resolution to bring peace to syria of the countries and deeper into violence the draft rules out or of military intervention both. sides to lay down. iran makes arrests over last week's nuclear scientists murder it won't confirm who's being held but suspicion is mossad as a growing number of israelis feel the country started the terrible. no turning back for thousands of anti corporate occupy protesters in america preparing to descend on congress as for the holidays for one song 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 explains why he thinks the united europe is not feasible concept and that his native france it's a complete revamp. as a day we're joined by alice 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. thanks very much for joining us today our first question is what is it that you dislike so much about the french a status quo that you feel compelled if you will to go against it.