numbers. the tragic death of a foreign journalist killed just 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 . with this you know what. they are going to live and waiting for that are you moved by do kids from this school in the hot areas where i was living. area. well this is not your normal life it's our land it's our home syria ok we cannot we don't want to leave our homes we don't want to leave a lot of 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 the homes survival hit 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 head 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 as much as anyone wanting to live here now you know everyone can leave across the country right now civilian safety is hugely under threats outbreaks of violence seen cayle sick and fractured and cool between the conflicting sides it's the people like this who is suffering under who are not completely would be ok with their government. and one hundred percent and we are not against it what they are doing. the young people they are.

getting as they are killing our future out there are killing people and i will i want to do 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 with storage units deteriorating. the total. number of the those who are killed is a skeleton we were accustomed to about twenty people per day being killed it's about thirty it's sad to say that it's going to continue such more more death more killing and say these people are left waiting keeping in praying they will their children sleeping next to be caught in the crossfire. in the city of homs. and just like you know you keep across here is updates from inside syria through her online blog dot com. well some of the people closely following the

situation so that has the assad government has staying power a political science professor using doubles told me that the west needs to realize that and start negotiating instead of pushing confrontation. as opposed to a lot of the other arab regimes which were caught off guard by the arab spring syria has been preparing 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 this rebellion to take place so they're very well prepared their power structures are intact it's going on the edges slightly but i would say from a pure power perspective syria's regime is not threatened assad has to realize that there is an opposition that he has to deal with this opposition equal partner i think the west has to realize 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 bath government recognize the opposition in 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 negotiations arounds made arrests over last week's nuclear scientists killing say who but suspicions are that it's mossad west and calls for military intervention a growing time which russia says would be disastrous policy reports now on how the theory is that a covert israeli operation is already underway from this rather spartan recording studio in jerusalem when he has been reaching out to people in the ran for fifty two years ties between tel aviv and the bit in but it's never stopped me from reading the news in farsi if we night and hosting a weekly show for listeners in the persian we will talk to share the views he thinks around to me anyway needs to mean 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 running in the

nations will be bombed by foreign powers with their israel or. 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 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 sabotaging the iranian nuclear program the attack is the latest in a series of mysterious accidents linked to iran's nuclear program to aircraft accidents in the space of three years scientists disappearing equipment damaged and computer viruses and leashed and the fingers pointing at israel. and the united states this is a very respectable grammar nation but. iran has many enemies and. is growing in mind it's not known in my generation adding fuel to the fire the plan for israel in 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 and the war activists brian becker says the crisis around rand's nuclear program is being fabricated by the us and sanctions are 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 iran is complying with the i.a.e.a. iran does not have a nuclear weapon iran is not threaten 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 the run 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 this hour on r.t. the tragedy of india's lost children how does it go figure the capital of something very few reading. some of the story coming up. on the fly five five of a company right as the world's most popular online encyclopedia prepares to go on strike over america's anti-piracy bills but more on that too in a few minutes. america's corporate occupy protest is the starting the year is they need to go on digging in with the demos as they clock up now for months of the campaign thousands of you outside congress later on tuesday hoping

their demands won't fall on deaf ears as representatives reconvene after the holidays what he's going to teach you can't is in washington for us. the protesters haven't approved. based on the long. run of the u.s. capitol building so they're not supposed to have problems with the police but we've heard that at least one person has already been arrested because he stepped outside we might see more coming up in the coming hours and i'll definitely keep 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 their focus from wall street to capitol hill 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 money is only step to grow in washington the supreme court has made a decision that allows corporations to funnel as much money you want to into

candidates here and. legalize production but of course the movement has a wall and at the beginning now you have less tense across the country authorities say in different cities they have protested out of their occupied 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 in some cities police gave the protesters harsh treatment i mean police used tear gas on them a little number there has been so many arrests six thousand over the last five months and we might see more arrests as the rally unfolds here in washington. the ratings agencies keep reading the blows on the beleaguered europe now the euro zone's fragile bailout funds being downgraded again it standard and poor's the firm which demoted nine e.u. nations and stripped france and auster of their top status is downgrades meant then

that the rescue fund lost one hundred eighty billion euros in aaa guarantees and that therefore is not his own score down as a result but better news though for france is that the other major ratings firms are keeping its position high with president sarkozy saying s. and p. a solitary move won't affect his debt reduction policies resulting his next hour it's the currency not the credit score of the root of the problem. deceive others 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 referendums on such decisions so the mass treatment for men who got through but in the second referendum on the lisbon treaty the french voted no in aren't they voted no it was rejected by the people who didn't forcibly have voted in by m.p.'s it is clear that this representative democracy actually represents no one at all bure opinion was meant to bring down unemployment bring prosperity

security but instead it brought unemployment the adoption of the euro inflated prices because de industrialisation 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 ahead as well in r.t. business how the s. and p. downgrade failed to shake investor confidence on europe's trading floors let's get some live comments on that. well you can markets have been comfortably in the red throughout the whole day on tuesday so ask if you west but following the recent downgrade. bad ratings are good as a man was generally has called for the for the introduction of independent european rating agencies and join me for more on that now business. yes he then current now

russia watches have been pouring over the duma putin's plans for his presidential campaign the promise to stall on how he'd so russia's problems from poverty to corruption if elected again in march political and they sell xander seven off says putin is well aware of the challenges ahead i think this will be a clarifying it will do much to bridge the gap understanding between the opposition and the protesters in the streets you see the. prime minister understands. that rushdie stacie and has been facing. or used to dictate what used. to built. the reputation away from dependence on oil i spend and nicer all the opposition leaders as proposed any mechanisms out there going to give people more more pensions salaries so they're actually not reserves where they're going to take it from the

obviously cannot take it from the air and put in is also stressed. you can read prime minister putin's plans for yourself we've got his whole article online at r.t. though com one of the two you might be interested in these stories to check out the gunshot gunshots still ringing out in libya while western nations seem surprised he recalled some say the right to the cause of the chaos or buy that online life. and suspending shakespeare why a school board in the states has taken the iconic playwright off its bookshelves. 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 lead to greater censorship internet freedom campaign are in short told me the bill could allow the u.s. government to shut down any site without trial. 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 can get shut down without even so much as a trial it's very unclear exactly how much is lost the copyright infringement and it's clear that whenever there are legal opportunities to download music 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 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 there's a whole long list of states 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. russia's failed mars probe has fallen back to work but the suspicions over why it didn't work and far from over russia's deputy prime minister thinks the foremost may have been wrong footed by an american radar return or goes it also wants an investigation into why there are frequent disruptions in payson russian space technology the progress launched from the volcano cosmodrome in kazakhstan on november the ninth to collect soil from a martian moon and shortly after it failed to hit its course to mars and remain stuck in earth's orbit eventually coming back down to earth in the pacific on sunday. more world news in brief five more bodies have been found inside that cruise line of it capsized off the italian coast the coast guard says the four men and one woman were discovered in their life jackets at the front of the vessel and

sadly bringing the death toll now to eleven and seven others are still missing it's emerged that the captain abandoned ship before it was fully evacuated and then ordered back on to the cause. called it by coast guard. insurgents in a rack of attack to checkpoint killing five policemen it now means one hundred fifty five people have died in violence there since the beginning of the year the latest assault took place as police guarding a border highway with jordan a former al qaeda stronghold iraq 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 only hours after it resumed his lawyers had opened their defense against playing with the eighty three year old allowed the killing of eight hundred fifty people during last year's uprising which eventually ousted him prosecutors barrick 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 has to deal with its security issues before voting can start it follows al qaida seizure of a town hundred sixty kilometers south of the capital as militants continue to take advantage of the unrest that is calling for president sunday to quit. thousands of children disappear from new delhi's packed city streets each and every year many are abducted in the never heard from again indeed some even their organs removed and sold well as artie's priests read reports next the desperate families have been shut out by police who say they're overburdened and understaffed. with almost seventeen million people packed into its crowded city streets new delhi is the perfect place for people to get lost but some don't just get lost they disappear that's what happened to raul kumar's twelve year old son ravi he went missing one year ago when he left the house to get his bicycle but never returned.

i don't know who took my son away i 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 as sex workers or slaves a studio but the kids are kept in places where no one will be able to find them there also kids on them just for the organ trade business that don't sion and all sides and they are getting but. kumar a son like most missing kids in delhi was alert away while playing from a poor neighborhood like this one many family members of missing people say that

they believe that they're often ignored by police because they lack money and power and in many cases they're asked to pay i have to see if they ever want to see their loved ones again i told the police they only say that maybe my brother is somewhere in the park or sleeping in some temple or staying at a friend's place delhi police say that while they know they face a massive problem things are getting better while in the past eighteen children in delhi would go missing every day this year that number is closer to ten organisations working to help the families of the missing say that while the police need to do more they're overburdened and understaffed. i think we're also trying to pressure the court to order the police to take serious steps in this issue to watch out for the child in railway stations and bus stop. but this comes as a little comfort to parents like rau kumar who feels as if he's tried everything he continues to visit ravis untouched bad room every day holding on to the memories

they share my son used to sleep on this bed with me the house seems empty without him and i don't know where all the stuff is just lying clinging to whatever hope he can that his desperate search for the son he loves will one day and well reassure either party in new delhi india that it was well up ahead we unveil the drastic effect on georgian cultural life since president saakashvili came to power a program come up in a couple of minutes after we caught up on the latest business this tuesday it's now coming up to a twenty three and a half minutes past nine moscow time. thank you kevin hello welcome to our business bulletin this hour a number of european energy firms will now get cheaper russian gas and as you monopoly gas prom has cut the costs of some long term contracts to bring them in line with market prices the move followed

a ruling from several you companies on discounts and a switch to the much lower spot market prices but confronting similar from russia's national energy security fund says that the decision could hit european consumers. sport market is a way to provoke thing because everybody is trying to see. a situation was gas prices in the united states now the price of the united states the price and up in the united states is a little bit more than one hundred dollars now the price in europe is more than four hundred dollars european you would relate as they are sure that sport might get means. it's not it's not true sports market is unpredictable market they have the price one to morrow you can hear five dollars that is why my idea is very simple that. the. market is a way to risky story for european union and they just weren't convinced. germany

has called for the introduction of independent european rating agencies following the recent downgrade 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 moves complicate the currency union's efforts to endure the worsening debt crisis however simon further fletcher from managers is skeptical about the creation. of the establishment of a european only. a little it's a little on the silly song and it's basically a slap down saying we don't like what you've said so we're going to set up a road. independent report is only going to be specifically for europeans and these are huge hole wrong of questions but fundamentally it's basically saying i'm pretty unhappy with your pope saying i'm going to go and join my own club. let's look at the markets now for us all crude is trading mixed this all those prices are

climbing on signs that china's economy avoid a sharp slowdown and keep global demand strong stocks in the u.s. are rising strongly at midday on signs of resilience in europe's debt markets and a gradual slowdown in china all that is easing fears that recent credit rating downgrades would prevent troubled nations from obtaining funds and the european markets closed in the black on tuesday as well the rally was inspired by better than expected growth data china u.k. splits he was boosted by a four point six percent rise from world bank of scotland group in germany the dax index ended one point eight percent higher with carmakers done they're up three point eight percent. here in russia markets climb to five with time tuesday is rising more than metals prices because producers both iatse has had my eyes extended around one a half percent in the black stronger all supported energy majors at almost two percent steelmakers was among the top gainers as well. on reports its subsidiary

north gold will become a separate company and start trading in london hydro also benefited after the bank agreed to buy eleven percent in the hydropower producer it will say and it will always spend the money to finance its investment program. russia has agreed on unique tax preference 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 governments of these two countries but the head of russia's directed messman found dmitri f. says that the deal will bring huge better. 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. that's all the business is with us our thanks to watch.

when we can uncomfortable question leads to a grave accusation the world who is more is enough obviously. the president who isn't supposed to hide anything. or it's someone asking him why do you make a secret out but when the powers to be suppress the boy so those who think different culture when you go experiencing very serious problems often the saakashvili government came to power in two thousand and three but if you will that was when the problems began piling up. interviews were now off limits to our journalists they were all from beason up and humiliated in public and one of the attempt to protect. property puts life in real danger. we have been deprived of the only means of living i have gone to the originals of all the papers. the little

ice the ownership rights on the basis of companies freedom becomes just. top stories tonight russia launches its latest rally the un resolution to bring peace to syria as the country sinks deeper into violence the drafters balance but rules out. while calling for syria's warring sides. iran makes arrests over last week's nuclear scientists confirm who's being held but suspicion is pointing at mossad as a growing number of israelis feel their country has started a covert terror. no turning back for thousands of. protesters in america who are preparing to descend on congress as it returns from a holiday for the still no sign of backing down from their demand that the richest

one percent stops making money and everyone else's expense. up next our special report for you about the effect georgia's president on his country's cultural. give us. your foods. go the fashionable new theatre etc renowned georgian artistic director robert stewart is presiding over addressing of shakespeare's the tempest not so long ago he was forced to resign from his post as a director of a leading state theatre in tbilisi. the british invited me to london to see a future with the plan was that.