live with market prices join me for more on that in our business bulletin. welcome you're watching r.t. live from moscow one aims kev you know in our top story at ten pm here the u.n. security council is set to mull over a new russian draft resolution but saying to the ending syria's violence moscow says the text is balanced calling on all sides to lay down arms the council's members have been evolves 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 at five thousand four hundred since the uprising started in march last year but damascus claims it's lost more than two thousand troops fighting the foreign funded insurgency on monday two lawmakers turned their backs on the regime saying the deadly crackdown on the opposition in the flashpoint city of homs is escalating and

it's from there now that sara firth reports for r.t. . 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 shays i suspect were people numbers. having 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 odd way to go but you know i think that you know if. they are going to get over that way before i move to my do kids from school in the heart area where i was living the law is what area because i would be going to you well this is not you know my life it's our land it's our home syria ok we cannot we will go. homes

we don't want to leave a lot of schools just want to leave peacefully people have been telling us that they're scared 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. dangerous. 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 isn't below rules and thousands of people have fled the city i can't imagine anyone wanting to live here now not everyone can leave across the country right now civilian safety is hugely under threat outbreaks of violence seen cayle sick and fractured and

caught between the conflicting sides is the people like this he was suffering we are not completely with with our government. and one hundred percent and we are not going to know what they are doing. the guns before they are getting out of killing our future they are killing our people and our 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. is deteriorating. the. number of the those who are killed is the skeleton. we were accustomed to about average twenty people but they killed. about thirty. to continue such. killing and say these people waiting

taping and praying. that children be next to be cool in the crossfire. in the city if. you keep crosshairs updates from inside syria through our online blog you find. some of those closely following the situation to say that the assad government has stayed political science professor 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. 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 crumbling on the edges slightly but i would say from

a pure power perspective syria's regime is not threatened the assad has to realize that there is an opposition that he 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 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. we were in a what you think about the crisis in syria and the latest move of the u.n. to bring about some sort of solution this is what you've been telling us so these are votes meant stacking up at r t dot com page well so far as you can see there nearly half of you think it doesn't matter what the security council decides because you think it's powerless forty five percent is but a quarter of you telling us it will take a full scale civil war to break out in syria for the council to agree on anything concrete around a fifth of you think china and russia are likely to agree to u.s.

terms well thirty percent think the opposite is going to happen if you haven't voted already still plenty of time to head to r.t. dot com and add your voice. iran has made arrests over last week's nuclear scientist killing they won't say who but suspicions are that it's mossad western calls for military intervention a growing when time which russia says would be disastrous policy 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 and they are very much afraid that the iranian nuclear installations

will be bombed by a foreign powers where they're israel or the united states or any other country but it's not only the rain ians who are suspicious of israel or america taking action people here in israel since something's in the air you can see signs of wink and nod from israeli officials when talking about it israel is signaling to the world. if the world doesn't do anything if the wall doesn't call for more fierce actions for more crippling sanctions quoting the secretary of state clinton then israel would take the initiative and strike 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 if someone or somebody or some agency is very successful in infiltrating

understanding last subaltern the iranian nuclear project. the attack is the latest in a series of mysterious accidents linked to iran's nuclear program two aircraft accidents in the space of three years scientists disappearing equipment damaged and computer viruses unleashed and the fingers pointing at israel. and you know. this is a very. respectable grumble notion but. iran has many a name 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 for a ran 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 burke says the crisis around runs nuclear programs being fabricated by the us through sanctions is squarely in the 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 now 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. the tragedy of india's lost children out of them go to the capital every year fewer have a explain why. the offline fire fight over copyright is the world's most popular online encyclopedia prepares to go on strike over america's anti-piracy bills more than a few minutes to. the next america's anti corporate occupy protesters starting the year is the need to go on digging in with demos as they clock up for months now the campaign thousands of congress later on tuesday hoping their demands won't fall on deaf ears as representatives reconvene after the holidays he's going

to teach a campus in washington. the protesters haven't approved reserve praise on the lawn right in front of front 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 arrests coming up in the coming hours and i'll definitely keep posting 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 is 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 has made a decision that allows corporations to funnel as much money you want to into

candidates here and protesters legalize corruption 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 protesters out of their occupied locations but now you have more of these one time actions one day rallies like this one on the capitol hill the movement as a whole it's been a largely a very peaceful movement in some cities police agave the protesters are frequent 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. if you can the world's most popular online encyclopedia is set to go on strike on wednesday because of the anti-piracy bill that's being pushed through the u.s. congress is designed to protect copyrighted material but the fear is that it's too vague and could lead to greater censorship investigative journalist tony goes want

to talk about that now with us in london hi there tony good to see you were completely offended jimmy wales said that the planned u.s. laws would quote harm the free and open internet and bring about new tools for censorship and international websites inside the united states do you think the bills really are that worrying that are being proposed. well it's certainly very very scary this bill but actually that is good news for a change because it looks like all the activism around so this stop online piracy act in the united states has borne some fruit since barack obama has come out now saying that he would veto the bill if the act if it goes through so i mean this isn't something positive to say here but certainly it was a very frightening idea i mean if you talk about piracy it's called the stop online piracy act this who are the real pirates who are the big guns here in the in the media world and on the internet the answer is the people with the big money who are

backed by the banking system wall street etc those are the real i think the real problem because what's going on here is an attempt to actually take down the links to the sites which are showing this material there is existing law which is perfectly adequate to actually stop people who are you doing genuine piracy that is what you do is you you actually take out a court case against the people who are hosting the pirated material this is an attempt to actually stop people even linking to i mean what we've seen for example the last few days is even rupert murdoch coming out and talking about google google as the pirates google piracy this is absolute nonsense of course because all google is simply doing is linking to other sites now i think you know most people who use the internet are intelligent enough to go to a particular site and then make their own mind up about what they do the other fact of the matter is if you're looking at for example content video content or on you

tube what you do is if some of your material is being used on there you contact you tube and they will take it down if you can show you own that material so the existing law is already there what this attempt was an attempt to shut down debate and we've seen over the last week or so here in britain a court case with a chap. called richard o'dwyer who's twenty three years old who was simply linking to material and making reference to that material he he it looks like possibly going to be extradited to america now anyway copyright should be a civil offense which goes through the civil courts it's much less draconian what they're trying to do here with this act is all they were anyway until it looks like it's being killed now is to actually take out people even talk about this material so really this is the latest skirmish in a massive information war for our hearts and minds i'm glad to say this one is about all the people of one ok but if it did get through if it did get through the

there's the whole issue of human rights here isn't the whole thing about the first amendment freedom of speach. well of course but i mean i think the other thing is that in cases like this the industry the big guns the big media big mainstream media people backed by massive amounts of money will be back in the future and let's not forget that they also use copyright to actually close down material for example they buy up documentaries movies things like this and then they stop the distribution of them now this is not what the original documentary makers often want you know for example you know you can try to get hold of some material and you find that there's nowhere it's nowhere available in the world so a lot of the ways that the owners of this material the big media companies of what they're doing is they're actually stopping some documentaries buying up those documentaries and then basically closing them down so we have to be really careful the way that the power of money can buy out the material that we want to see we

need to see in order to understand the world and actually this this is good news because it means that there's a little bit less of a chance that the future media in the western world will be turning to some sort of awful propaganda system where only the big companies decide what we see and hear or attorney you say it is self regulating but there are a lot of people did say there needs to be tighter restrictions surely a lot of this information has been wantonly hundred around without permission or pavement a bit lots of cases about the past surely a tightening is needed isn't it. well i think what needs to happen is we need to use existing laws and actually i think they're perfectly adequate in most cases and also responsible big providers like google and you tube they have perfectly good systems if someone is having their material taken away removed or whatever and just pirated around the internet as they call it then all you do is you you contact those people you explain that this is your material and they're actually very good

at identifying that stuff and taking it down where necessary this whole proposal from the industry is really because the internet is is eating in to their monopoly on what we see and hear and i actually like to see the internet do that more and more in the future because we we're getting a bum deal from the mainstream media in the western world what they're doing is they're spinning for stuff far too much and what's happening is that some of the mainstream media newsrooms are becoming chokepoints for the truth the truth simply isn't coming out because they've decided what messages they want the public to hear in the western world always free speech guaranteed from you turn it goes the investigative journalist thanks for joining us there from london thanks. russia watches have been pouring out of the duma putin's plans for his presidential campaign the prime minister said his stall on how he'd solve russia's problems from poverty to corruption if elected again in march political analyst alexander seven off says putin is well aware of the challenges ahead. i think this will be a clarifying it will do much good to bridge the gap in understanding between the

opposition and the protesters in the streets we see that the prime minister understands all those challenges that rashi stacie and has been facing. 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 the role of 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 as also stress this well just let you know you can read prime minister putin's plans for yourself for we've got the whole article on money dot com web page also while you're there as well we've got

a lot of other stories of course not a comment about the day's news for you just check out the dot com let me take you through some world news in brief now 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 now to eleven seven others are still missing tonight it emerged that the captain abandoned ship before it was fully evacuated and was ordered back on to the costa concordia by life and coast. insurgents in iraq of a church have attacked a checkpoint killing five policemen that means one hundred fifty five people have now died in violence there since the beginning of the year the latest assault took place as police guarding a 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 people during last year's uprising which ousted him prosecutors want to face the death penalty. 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 well i was pretty street reports for the desperate families are being shot 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 looked for him everywhere but i couldn't find him. and ravi is 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 their 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 porn 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 a fee if they ever want to see their loved ones again i told the police but they

only say that maybe my brother is somewhere in the park were 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 cool 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 lying 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 that it wasn't sad story support next including all the action from the australian open tennis championships but with kareena next though she's got the latest business for. how i welcome to visit the south thanks for joining me and number of european energy firms will now get cheaper russian gas energy monopoly gas from has cut the costs of some long term contract to bring them in line with market prices and move followed a ruling from several e.u. companies are discounts and switch to the much lower spot market prices but because that is similar from russia's national energy security fund says it could hit european consumers support market is a way to provoke a thing because everybody is straight to see. a situation was gas

prices in the united states now the price in 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 blew it as they are sewer sport mike it means cheap gas it's not it's not true sports market is unpredictable market. you cover the price one hundred to morrow you can hear five dollars that is why my ideas were simple that. the construction of the sport market is a very risky story for european union and that is why it convinced. let's have a look at the stock markets now europe closed in the black on tuesday the rally was inspired by better than expected growth data from china you can see it was boosted by a four point six percent rise for the world bank of scotland group in germany the dax

index ended one point eight percent higher with comic times over three and a half percent and here in russia markets climb to five week high on tuesday as rising oil and metal prices producers. and that around one and a half percent of the black strongly supported energy majors out almost two percent still maker severstal was among the top gainers reports its subsidiary north gold will become a separate company and start trading in london hydro also benefit bank agreed to buy eleven percent in the hydropower producer it will spend the money to finance its program. russia has agreed on unique tax benefits for the united arab emirates in order to attract more investment from this oil rich nation the new system applies to the country's state institutions which will no longer have to pay tax for their dividends on investments in russia the agreement is yet to be ratified by the country's government but the head of russia's direct investment

fund killed with the of says that the deal will bring huge but. the total investment capital managed by the united arab emirates stands at 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 from five hundred million to several billion dollars so we're talking about serious and big investments but. it's all the business remind you can always find more stories on our website r.t. dot com.

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