welcome you're watching r.t. live from moscow my name's kevin zero in our top story for you at eleven pm here the u.n. security council is set to mull over a new russian draft resolution the same today ending serious violence moscow says the text is balanced 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 now in syria at five thousand four hundred since that uprising began last march but damascus claims it's lost more than two thousand troops fighting a forum for the insurgency monday to 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 that our sara first picks up the story. 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 i suspect were people numbers. having the tragic death of foreign journalists 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 but you know if it's you know if. they are going to get out waiting for that are you moved might do kids from their school in the hot area where i was living the lord is with area it doesn't get as good you will 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 have been telling us that this guy has 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 is the 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 are not completely with with their government. and one hundred percent and we are not going

to know what they are doing. the guns before they are getting out of that they are 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. the. number of the those who are killed is the skeleton. we were accustomed to about average twenty people but they being killed it's about thirty to say that it's going to continue such. marketing say these people waiting taping praying they their children and the next speaker in the crossfire.

which is let you know you can keep across from inside syria through online blogs updating on a lot at. home. some of the closely following situations government is staying power is going to stay for a while political science professor eugene douglas told me that the west needs to realize that and start negotiating instead of pushing confrontation this 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. is nor surprise 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 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 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 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 very much short want to know what you think about the crisis in syria and the latest move at the u.n. to bring about some sort of solution these are how your votes have been stacking up on our website r.t. dot com our home page over the last hour or so for the half of you think it doesn't matter what the security council decides because it's powerless but a quarter of you telling us it will take a full scale civil war to break out of syria you think the council to agree on anything around a fifth of you are telling us that china and russia have likely to agree at the end of the day to us and thirteen percent of you think it'll be the opposite way around still a chance to have your say online at r.t.

dot com. iran has made arrests over last week's nuclear scientist killing it won't say who but suspicions are that it's mossad western calls for military intervention a growing 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 and 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 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 or more properly saying since 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 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 the united states this is a very. respectable grumble notion but. iran has many i mean is. you. mind it's not new york in my generation are 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 antiwar activist brian becker says the crisis around iran's nuclear

program is being fabricated by the us 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 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 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 an hour to the tragedy of india's lost children go missing in the capital every year few of explain why. and the off live fire fight over copyright as the world's most powerful online encyclopedia for players to go on strike over america's anti-piracy bills more on that too just a few. but first america's anti corporate occupy protesters the start of the year is the need to go on digging in with the demos as they clock up four months now of the campaign thousands of congress later on tuesday hoping their demands won't fall on deaf ears as representatives reconvene again after the holidays at his gun if you can is in washington. the protesters haven't approved reserves 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 the law and we might see more arrests 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 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 for long term to candidates here and protesters legalize production 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 gave the protesters are frequent i mean police use to tear gas on them or whomever 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 rating agencies keep raising the blows on the beleaguered europe now the eurozone is fragile bailout funds been downgraded to a get a standard and poor's the firm which demoted nine e.u. nations and stripped france and austria of their top status says these downgrades meant that the rescue fund lost their nine hundred eighty billion euros in aaa guarantees and that his own score down as a result but the news there for france is that the other major ratings firms are

keeping its position high for now with president sarkozy saying s. and peace summit removed won't affect his debt reduction policy on our website we hear from experts who believe it's their currency not their credit score as they were the root of the problem and here's what what else is it r t dot com right now if you care to take a look. 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 your father we were still having referendums on such decisions as the mass treatment for men and got through but in the second referendum on the lisbon treaty the french voted no in ireland people did know it was rejected by the people then forcibly 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 with but instead it brought on employment the adoption of the

euro inflated prices because do you just realisation especially in france that it may be better for germany it could be 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. before this. the world's most popular online encyclopedia is set to go on strike on wednesday because of the anti-piracy bill that's been pushed through the u.s. congress it's designed to stop to protect its first try again it is either protect copyrighted material but the fear is it's too vague and could lead to greater censorship investigative journalist tony goldwyn says the internet is the last haven of free speech as most media in the west is aware the sense and to the core. but 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 the 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 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 when 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 were 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. russia watches have been pouring over vladimir 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 xander seven off 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. 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 reputation away from dependence on oil reserves high spending and nice they're all the opposition leaders thousand proposed any mechanisms how they're going to give people 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. and you can read prime minister putin's plans for yourself he got his a whole article online and r.t. dot com while you're there these stories as well get a lot of clicks you may be interested to the gun show still being out in libya and while western nations seem surprised and even appalled some say they're actually the cause of the chaos interesting story there r.t. dot com also suspending shakespeare whatever next why a school board of the states has taken the iconic play right off its bookshelves.

this is r.t. russia's failed mars probe has fallen back to earth but the suspicions over why it didn't work in the first place are far from over now russia's deputy prime minister things could have been wrong footed by an american raid demeter a goes in also wants an investigation into why there have been frequent disruptions of russian space technologies lately the probe was launched from the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan on november the ninth to collect salt from a martian moon but shortly after it failed its course to mars and remain stuck in earth orbit eventually as we saw coming back down to earth in the well sea rather in the pacific on sunday. more world news in brief 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 no brings the total number of deaths to eleven several 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 coast guards. insurgents in iraq have attacked a checkpoint killing five policeman 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 in a former al qaeda stronghold iraq has seen a wave of attacks into 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 that eventually ousted him prosecutors want mubarak to face the death penalty. yeven the foreign minister says months of protests and political instability could mean february's upcoming presidential election won't know 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 armrests that's been calling for president saleh to quit. thousands of children disappear from new delhi's packed city streets every year many are abducted and they never heard of or seen again some even have their organs removed and sold when i was artie's priest read reports that desperate families are being 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 maurice 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 the kids are kept in places where no one will be able to find them they're also kidnapped for the organ trade business that don't sion and also if they going to. come are a son like most missing kids in delhi was 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 they're asked to pay

a fee if they ever want to see their loved ones again i told the police they only say that maybe my brother is somewhere in the park 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 court to order the police to take serious steps in this issue to watch out for the child in railway stations and bus to potion 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 all haste. just mining 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. porch now on the way america's presidential challenges get the marks kaiser treatment after we've updated you on the latest business tonight corrina c n n the studio. how i welcome to visit the south thanks for joining me a number of european energy firms will now get cheaper russian gas energy monopoly gas promise cut the costs of some long term contract to bring them in line with market prices the move followed a ruling from several e.u. companies are discounts and switch to the much lower spot market prices but because thirteen similar from russia's national energy security fund says it could hit european consumers support market is

a way to broker thing because everybody is straight and see. the situation as gas prices in the united states now with the price of the united states the price and 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 agree with us they are sewer sport mike it means cheap gas it's not it's not true sports market is unpredictable market. you have the price one to morrow you can hear five dollars that is where my ideas were simple that. the construction of the sport market is a very risky story for european and you 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 carmakers over three and a half percent and here in russia markets climb to a five week high on tuesday as rising oil and metal prices producers. and it around one a half percent in the black strongly supported energy majors at almost two percent still maker seven 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 investment 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 is the two shows 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 governments 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 a trillions of dollars and you would have a small piece of that comes to russia it will be a significant amount of money that's why i think we're talking about billions of dollars even the projects we currently discussed with arabic partners involved sums from five hundred million to several billion dollars so we're talking about serious and big investments but. it's all the business remind you can always find more stories on our website r.t. dot com.

wealthy british style. sometimes right. hi guys. market. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines kaiser report.

thanks for watching of you're watching around the world this is r.t. international from moscow and these are our top stories russia launches its latest bid to rally the un around a resolution to bring peace to syria as the country sings deeper into violence moscow says the draft is balanced and rules out followed military intervention calling for syria's warring sides to lay down arms. iran makes arrests over last week's nuclear scientists mudder it won't confirm who's being held but suspicion is pointed up as a growing number of his.