welcome you're watching r.t. live from moscow one is kevin know in our top story at nine pm moscow time the u.n. security council set to mull over a new russian draft resolution that's aimed at ending serious violence moscow says the text is balanced and it calls on all sides to lay down arms the council's members have been at odds over syria for months now the u.s. and its allies place all the blame for the bloodshed on the regime and they want president assad to resign estimates put the civilian deaths in syria now at five thousand four hundred since the uprising began in march but the mask is claims it's lost more than two thousand troops fighting a fallen from the insurgency on monday to lawmakers turned their backs on the regime saying the deadly crackdown on the opposition in the flashpoint city of homs is escalating about cigs actually where sarah furthur r.t. reports from next. it's been less than a month since we were last in homs in that time the situation's become even more

dangerous and the pressure on the people living here shay's. were people numbers. having the tragic death of foreign journalists killed just here in homs recently served in yet another remind the harrowing the precarious situation that people in the city are in the way to go that you know that that's you know in which they are going to jail while i make the point that i moved my do kids from this school in the heart area where i was living to the lord is what area it was so he cared about you well this is not you know my 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 think telling us that they're scarce to leave their homes across the city water shortages food shortage. power cuts are

extremely common winces here and it's hard for some people to even heat their homes so far over here in the city of homs has really been taken back to basics the city that's been at the heart of the arrest is much like the rest of the country right now divided you can travel from one area to another here some streets simply t. danger. the armed conflict in syria right now is looking increasingly like a civil war in the towns and cities like homs to the show resistance isn't by 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 threat outbreaks of violence seen cayle sick and fractured and call for tween the conflicting sides it's the people like this who is 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 young people they are. getting guns they are killing our future our they are killing our people and old children this is the devastating reality as syria's uprising hit me that the government all the opposition seem willing to lay down their arms and proceed dialogue distortion is deteriorating. the. number of the those who are killed is a skeleton. we were accustomed to about twenty people but they killed. about thirty. to continue such. marketing say these people waiting. praying they chose the next eclipse in the. us and just like

you know you keep the crosshairs updates from inside syria through her online blog . home. well some of the people closely following the situation say that as the assad government has staying power political science professor eugene devil has told me that the west needs to realize that and start negotiating instead of pushing confrontation is 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. 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 as 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 best 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 it won't say who but suspicions are that it's mossad western calls for military intervention a growing meantime which russia says would be disastrous for his policy reports now 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 and tehran of a billion 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 foreign powers where they're israel or the united states or any other country but it's not only be rainy and who are suspicious of israel or america taking action people here in israel since something's in the air you can see signs of wink and nod from israeli officials when talking about it israel is signaling to the world. if the world doesn't do anything if the wall doesn't call for more fierce actions for more crippling sanctions quoting the secretary of state clinton then israel would take the initiative and strike along some wonder if israel hasn't already declared an unofficial war on terror ran 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 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 and leashed and the fingers pointing at israel. and the united states this is a very respectable grumbly nation but. iran has many enemies. is as good as mine it's not beyond imagination adding fuel to the fire the plan for israel and the united states to conduct their biggest joint military drill before the end of the

year it would see thousands of american troops deployed in israel for a rant it's the most blatant sign that an attacks coming but no one in israel will come on record and say there is a covert war on iran all talk of an israeli strike is limited to the airwaves policy r.t. jerusalem and the war activists brian becker says the crisis around rand's nuclear program is being fabricated by the u.s. sanctions is 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 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 iran are 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 to the capital every something very few reading. on this story coming out. of the offline five fight over copyright as the world's most popular online encyclopedia prepares to go on strike over america's anti-piracy bills got more back to in a few minutes. america's corporate occupy protesters is starting the

year is they need to go on digging in with the demos as they clock up now four 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 are he's going to teach a cat is in washington for us. the protestors have a reserve base on the lawn. 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 the law and we might see more coming up in the coming hours and i'll definitely keep 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 onto 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 made a decision that allows corporations to funnel as much money for long term to candidates here and protesters legalize option but of course the movement has a wall and at the beginning now you have a less tense across the country authorities say in different cities they have protesters 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 and whose members 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. right exactly reading the blows on a beleaguered europe now the eurozone. is being done great to get it standard and

poor's the firm which demoted ninety nations and stripped from true of the top status is. the rescue from gloucester hundred ninety billion euros in aaa guarantees and therefore. 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. 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 thought 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 ireland they voted no it was rejected by the people who didn't forcibly look 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 on employment the adoption of the euro inflated prices because didn't just realisation especially in france it may be better for germany it 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. 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 downgrades in waiting as our viewers are now west germany has called for the for

the introduction of independent you. join me for more on that. yes he then korea now russia watches have been pouring over vladimir putin's plans for his presidential campaign the prime minister said his stall and how he'd solve 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. prime minister stance. that russia stacey and has been facing. huge new economy to the built. the reputation away from dependence well i spend and nice there on the opposition leaders post any

mechanisms out there going to give people more more pensions. 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 as also stressed so you can read prime minister putin's plans for yourself we've got a whole article online of r.t. though com one of the two you might be interested in the story to check out the gunshot gunshots still ringing out in libya and while western nations seem surprised they reform some say the run through the course of the chaos more about that online. 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 sense of ship 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 and hold the 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 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 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 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. russia's failed mars probe has fallen back to worth but the suspicions over why it didn't work a far from over russia's deputy prime minister thinks the foremost grown may have been wrong footed by an american radar to meter a goes it also wants an investigation into why there are frequent disruptions that there is a russian space technology the program launched from the viking of cosmodrome in kazakhstan on november the ninth to collect soil from a martian moon but 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 liner that 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 it's sadly bringing the death toll now to eleven and several others are still missing it's emerged that the captain abandoned ship before it was fully evacuated and then ordered back on to the costa concordia by coast guard. insurgency the lack 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 the border highway with jordan in 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 claims that the eighty three year old allowed the killing of eight hundred fifty people during last year's uprising which eventually ousted him prosecutors want the barracks 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 qaeda seizure of a town one 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 him sold well as artie's prostrated reports next the desperate families have been shut out by police who say they're overburdened and understaffed with almost seventy million people packed into its crowded city streets new delhi is the perfect place for people to get lost but some don't just get lost they disappear

that's what happened to mars twelve year old son robbie 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 a studio but their kids are kept in places where no one will be able to find them they're also kidnapping to the organ trade business that don't sion and all sides

are they getting but couldn't. come our son like most missing kids in delhi with the word 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 if they're asked to pay i have to be if they ever want to see their loved ones again i told the police they only say that maybe my brother is somewhere in the park or sleeping in some temple or staying at a friend's place delhi police say that while they know they face a massive problem things are getting better while in the past eighteen children in delhi would go missing every day this year that number is closer to ten organisations working to help the families of the missing say that while the police need to do more they're overburdened and understaffed. we're also trying to pressure the court to order the police to take serious steps in this issue to watch out for the child and railway stations in boston. 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 share my son used to sleep on this bed with me the house seems empty without him and i don't know way. stuff is just lying clinging to whatever hope you can that his desperate search for the son he loves will one day and well reassure either r.t. you delhi india well well up ahead we unveil the drastic effect on georgian cultural life since president saakashvili came to power a program code and 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 boards and this hour a number of european energy firms will now get cheaper russian gas and as you

monopoly gazprom 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 constantin seen enough from russia's national energy security fund says that the decision could hit european consumers. sports market is a way to provoke a thing because everybody is right will see. the situation was gas prices in the united states now with the price of the united states the price of. more than one hundred dollars now the price in europe is more than four hundred dollars european you agree with us they are spoiled my good means cheap gas it's not it's not to spoil the market is unpredictable market. price one to morrow you can hear five dollars that is why my ideas were simple that. the

construction of this book market is a very risky story for european and you. 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. she's a little it's a little on the silly scientists basically slapped down saying we don't like what you've said so we're going to set about. these independent groups of report is it only going to be specifically for europeans and these are huge whole wrong of questions but fundamentally it's basically saying i'm pretty unhappy with what your

club saying i'm going to go off and join my own club. let's look at the markets now first of all crude is trading mixed this was 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 from 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 down there three point eight percent. here in russia markets climbed to five with time tuesday is rising more than metals prices because producers both the r.t.s.

and my six ended around one a half percent in the black stronger all supported energy majors aghast at almost two percent steelmakers was among the top gainers as well. all reports its subsidiary north gold will become a separate company and start trading in london. will also benefit to the bank agreed to by eleven percent and the hydropower producer it will send it will always 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 on their dividends investments in russia the agreement has yet to be ratified by the governments of these two countries but the head of russia's direct investment fund dimitri says that the deal will bring huge back. to 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 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 but. that's all the business is for this hour thanks for watching.

when 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. more it's someone asking him why do you make a secret out that when the powers to be suppress the voice of 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 it was a book 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 is that we have been

deprived of the only means of earning a living i have gone to the original sit all the papers to be at the little ice the ownership rights on the basis of cocos freedom becomes just a stage prop. live from moscow this is our top stories tonight russia 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 but rules out foreign military intervention while calling for syria's warring sides to lay down. iran makes arrests over the last weeks nuclear scientists murder it won't confirm who's being held but suspicion is pointing at mossad as a growing number of israelis fear their country has started a covert terror parade.