fresh brush has so reaganite in bahrain with police to gassing undertaking protesters who demanded equal rights under none to discrimination by the authorities. new reports reveal that the f.b.i. was aware of an assassination plot against occupy wall street acts of it but now that i was asked that. the latest findings show moron the monk teachers in the u.k. he is a twat but as educators complain of a lack of support from the government.

this is all she coming to life for most go hello and welcome to the program. the rain has begun the new year in much the same way as a finnish filled one with a fresh wave of protests across the gulf monarchy security forces and the company again use ted danson on to government demonstrators demanding more rights on the release of political prisoners that was several arrests as police continue that clamp down on dissent now approaching the two year mark after eighty people have been killed and thousands detained since the uprising began in february twenty seventh human rights groups are calling on bahrain's sunni rumors to start a dialogue with the opposition and put a hold to confessions under torture two months ago authorities beyond all public gatherings but that didn't stop progress form campaign is from staging brownies and acts of his to a smug darwish says security forces from abroad stoking the violence by attacking unarmed civilians. security forces who are working for the ministry of interior and

i mean are practicing a lot of buy in ends and a lot to boil nations to human rights when confronting when pro-democracy protests and behaving and rockets took place in many different villages and areas around behaving and all of them all of them got a. crack they were a crackdown by the way the security forces and behaving who are most to be a not body and they are working and an end of any super interior and the they were brought from different countries for in countries like pakistan and jordan and syria and yesterday in the village where i live and security it was tear gas exists if you by security forces and i could see security forces running down the streets by my house and shooting randomly inside the house this movement was completely peaceful but after witnessing the west that was during and

was issued toward this this situation and behaving over there to me it is unlike to what does. what they are claiming like they are encouraging human rights in different countries arab countries but when it comes to bahrain they use double standards so the protestors here it by having although they are those radical and protestants they are the minority and not the majority but they are using such methods to prevent white and security forces from entering their their religious and tacking on armed civilians and children like we witnessed in the big you off of the four year old child being attacked by security forces with tear gas canisters. you can always log on to our website for more opinions and analysis about the protests in bahrain just go to altie dot called. it's been revealed

that the f.b.i. knew of appeals to us some members of the occupy wall street movement but didn't alert them to the potential danger if it follows revelations that the bureau was spying on acts of its from the start of the protests and even branded them domestic terror under criminal threat his marina parthenon has the details for us. well it's not clear yet why the f.b.i. would neglect to tell activists that there was a potential assassination plot surrounding them what we do know is that new documents obtained by the partnership for the civil justice fund the u.s. human human and civil rights advocacy organization have revealed that the u.s. the f.b.i. the department of homeland security the u.s. military and private corporations all cooperated together to monitor and investigate occupy wall street protesters as quote domestic terrorists and quote criminals now the more shocking revelation the headline of this story is that reportedly buried deep within the government. mentions of

a plan to use snipers to assassinate occupy protesters and the movement's leaders in various cities throughout the country these alleged plans were supposed to be taking place in the fall of two thousand and eleven now the names of the groups or individuals involved in the alleged plot are redacted from the f.b.i. documents but what critics say is clear is that the f.b.i. never all learned any one of the potentially any of the potential victims that their lives could possibly be in danger or that there's any threat surrounding them the partnership for civil justice fund received the f.b.i. documents on december twenty second so this is fairly new information and this was after they filed a request under the freedom of information after now many civil rights attorneys previously have accused the f.b.i. of functioning as a de facto intelligence arm for u.s. corporations during the occupy wall street movement and especially as it grew bigger however some critics say they never ever suspected that the f.b.i. would neglect to tell occupy protesters u.s.

citizens about an assassination plot surrounding them. and this malone independent journalist who was of the occupy protests says the f.b.i. is siding with the so-called one percent of us society. this coronation between the f.b.i. the department of homeland security and corporations in the new york stock exchange really showed who they're serving it's it's not the government in this case is these corporations in the financial sector and it's certainly not the people the f.b.i. is really just targeting ordinary people going about their daily lives as potential terrorists and now people who are part participating in peaceful protest are also categorized as domestic terrorists so i think the f.b.i. is really picking and choosing who it categorizes as the type of civilians it wants to protect and at this point this really shows that you know as arky prime might say the one percent. the quality of education of britain's future generations could

bear trees. in england and wales has hit a dangerous new law and london correspondent for smith told my colleague kevin owen why over seventy percent of teachers believe education in the u.k. pos the national union of. biggest teachers union in the u.k. has commissioned a survey which says that morale among teachers has dropped dramatically they talked about the highs and lows of life in the classroom incredibly low morale but also frustrated at continual criticism and interference from the government they said and the figures are quite staggering actually fifty five percent of teachers surveyed said that morale was either very low and that's up from forty two percent just eight months ago so it's really on a declining trend seventy seven percent said that they didn't feel that specific education policies of the government so specialist schools free schools were taking

education in the right direction in this country and just five percent felt that this current coalition government impact on the education system was positive and had more specific about what the teachers don't like about the government's policies here well there are specifics that they don't like they don't like this continuing interference they say that every new government that comes in completely revamp the national curriculum and the education system from what it was before say that constantly on the back. there's a new test now where children aged just by are tested on phonics some children obviously fail that test and teachers a saying that if you fail a test age five out a huge impact on your future development makes you feel like a failure from an incredibly young age they're also trying to change the exam system again introducing a thing called the back where just a few core subjects would be examined differently from other subjects and people who are in the arts and sports and all those subjects that you really liked when

you were at school say that that you know children aren't going to take those subjects any more so there certainly is you know teachers talk about how seriously and cuts in general have affected families and the students that they teach they say that families who are the make children have less access to technology at home they have parents who can't help them necessarily with their schoolwork and in fact i talked to christine loh who's the general secretary of the national union of teachers and she talked about that in a general sense what the government is doing wrong is its whole approach to austerity because one of the things that's obvious to teachers is that great swathes of children and their families are having a very difficult time at the moment and if families lose benefit in london for example that's going to be a huge problem with housing benefit cuts the have to move schools and of course you know family income drops just to clean which it has had lots of places children are

coming to school hungry they haven't had first don't go home and get a meal in the evening so in a general sense there are really quite big problems and the upshot of that is that seventy six percent of teachers surveyed said that austerity measures will have a negative impact on family or british teachers will get nervous about reform yet they want changes now to improve the situation is what will make the difference at minimal cost to them. well cost is of course the issue they want fewer and slow reforms they say they want to be consulted more and they say that they don't feel trusted as professionals gnashed course has a huge impact on future generations of children and in fact the national union of teachers is not ruling out striking unions of course never rule out striking christie told me specifically that they don't rule it out. the government is attacking pay and conditions and in fact just before christmas michael gave the education secretary was reported in newspapers having put the department of education on a war footing with teachers which is not going to help going forward. as the u.n.

says the syrian conflict death toll has now reached sixty thousand the rebels warned that prepared to use chemical weapons and handle the insurgent army claims they now have the capability to produce chemical arms and already to unleash them on assad loyalists this comes amid the latest spate of violence in the country after seventy people were supposedly killed the government asked tripe hit a fuel station they damascus about the top international peace envoy to syria was the country faces now unless a ceasefire was brokered some experts blame the lack of progress on the west bank. if. peace negotiation and peace initiative presented by a brahimi russia is not accepted by the opposition at the moment the situation in syria will be escalating saw the opposition is the party who is. refusing any negotiation with the government one position have chemical weapons this is

a very dangerous and with a very serious matter and i think. they don't have. all of the legal bounding limits to not to use it the danger now is to be used and then blame the government for it to initiate some kind of international response against the syrian government this is dangerous position and i think that this is what the syrian government should have always been saying that these to undermine the syrian government and to. get some kind of international attention international support especially from the nato on the powers of the west. going for gold the french capital has been hit by a string of armed robberies. jury. blaming the break ins on holiday economic times this story just ahead.

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food free broadcast quality video for your media projects free media dog r.t. dot com. this is all see welcome back standards of living across the eurozone continue to fall and number of age old problems are on the rise in france they fall trying a cold only has led to a startling such an armed robbery with gold and high valued jury of the main target . to how small. until a month ago this was one of many jewelry shops on the quiet. street in central paris after a gruesome attack by armed robbers never reopened for business having kept robbers out of his store a fifty two year old metal worker tried to chase them down into the street into the parking lot where their motorbike stood the criminals turned around and fired

a shot at him he died right in the middle of the street in broad daylight. the murder shocked france with the country's interior ministry fearing it would not be the last incident of its kind. we must not regard these attacks as well these individuals are well trained and they can and will use force and weapons against the employees of jewelry stores. since france plunged into financial crisis armed robberies have become ever more frequent criminals not only attack stores but they also strip people of their jewelry in the street in some instances they've gone as far as digging graves up to steal golden teeth from corpses to sell jewelry stores private jurors say they are scared to do their job now. we had an attack on our store last year and recently a woman working in a neighboring grocery store was taken hostage the robbers thought she worked for us

we had to install a special amador and cameras but we still feel like we're in a war zone. diamond rings and gems are a hit with the robbers but it's gold which is the biggest draw it's easy to explain say experts in the midst of the eurozone crisis the price is going up all the time . twelve years of a continuous rise of the price of gold and gold it is small so when you fall for he's not so difficult because it's something you could put in your pocket. for people. to. be shops this is one of the consequence. negative consequence. or commodities. a lot of product increase price despite so much gold legal and stolen openly on sale experts say this is seriously damaging the market private buyers are springing

up and buying the precious metal at an unregulated price the police created a special unit to deal with the gold there but the problem may only fade away when the financial turmoil does. alexi russia r.t. reporting from paris. site called for you right now a french court is waiting to hear evidence suggesting that former president nicolas sarkozy accepted tens of millions of euros in campaign donations from house and they believe that mama. also online as millions around the world volatile days await as part of that new year resolutions a controversial study claims that being far at chili's told on good life all flesh out all the details for you on our side. top us all as makers are looking east in a bid to flood the volatile asia pacific region with weapons full cost project at further increasing the flood of america voltec to countries in the area where

several territorial disputes recently reaching a boiling point independent journalist james corbett says the x. ports tree could backfire washington. what we can see is really just a return to a very old imperial strategy building up bogeymen in order to then create the sales to to combat those bogeyman so it's a very old strategy it was identified by me by president eisenhower in his farewell address in one nine hundred sixty when he talked about the military industrial complex and we here we are half a century later with the exact same strategy at play and before it was the communists then there was the terrorist threat and now there's china and that threat so i think it creates a situation where the economics may be what's driving this we give it towards asia pacific but that in turn creates geopolitical realities so that for example china now sees all of these arms sales going to korea and taiwan and japan and some of the u.s. allies in the region and they respond with

a military armaments of their own so it's a kind of self-perpetuating. prophecy that fulfills itself by the economics of the situations easing has its eye on what's happening with taiwan. and b. the. retrofit the f. sixteen fleet of time timeline but also the japanese explained radar for example that just recently as it was being expanded in worked on i think has to be seen as a threat by china as well so i think definitely we're going to see an increase in tensions and that will probably create more situations like we saw in the past year with. a dispute between. two of america's top rating agencies say congress hasn't done enough to remove the risk of another quite a downgrade even despite the deal to delay going over the fiscal cliff moody's and standard and poor's are calling on lawmakers to urgently come up with a plan to slash the growing national debt which has gone over its sixteen point four trillion dollars limit and added the house of representatives approved signed

a bill to avoid a chain of events which experts say could plunge america back into recession nationwide tax hikes and massive budget cuts have been put on hold at least for the next two months while congress works out its next moves the bill also raises tax rates on high earners for the first time in two decades and financial analyst marks for oddballs says the big korean capitol hill because the country's reputation at stake. took the u.s. government the u.s. economy hostage and they let their hostage go about an hour several hours after the hostage deadline and they now would like to be congratulated for letting their hostages go however since they took the hostages it's hard to be excited that addition to which this has reputational damage the united states as well as really . uncertainty at all the negativity over the last really ten months almost as this dragged out and this deal violated all the basic promises to both basic constituencies so nobody wanted to be responsible for a deal and everybody was much more interested in grandstanding and talking

ideological purity than solving with nation's problems it was an expiry of the tax cuts why are we hearing much about it because they are focusing on the few successes some real some imagined and that is not an area of success and it highlights that when the republican party says no new taxes at all they mean new taxes and including new taxes for people who can afford it and the democratic party says no new taxes for anyone making under two hundred fifty thousand they mean no new taxes except for the new taxes that you now have which are thirteen hundred dollars more probably on average per year so nobody really wants to talk about the face plan that they executed here they want to talk about the half twist on their way down that they did not how they landed on their face not their feet. a look at some other world news in brief this hour a gunman has opened fire in a village in southern switzerland killing three people injuring two others the suspected shooter was later arrested he was shot and wounded after threatening police the golfer who local media identified as

a thirty year old local man was reportedly armed with an assault rifle. in india a state lawmaker is facing charges of crimes against women could be suspended from office hours as the country's top court is expected to rule on a petition for tougher regulations against sexual assault the document was submitted in the aftermath of a violent gang rape or twenty two year old university student in new delhi two weeks ago six suspects detained in the case are due to be formally charged later also today. and then as well as opposition has called on the government to give detailed information about the health of president hugo chavez that he hasn't made any public appearances since having cancer drink you were three weeks ago traverses due to be sworn in for another six year term next week but it's not yet clear whether he'll be able to attend. is one of the most divided parts of a divided land in the northern area of east jerusalem israel's huge separation wall

means many palestinian families have no choice but to live apart policy or when they're to find out what effect it has on every day life. is released cannot live in the west bank and most palestinians cannot live in israel which leaves those israelis and palestinians who want to share a home altoona called. one hundred my husband this from have been i'm from jerusalem i found work in jerusalem and used to live there with my children but without my husband because he is not allowed to live he couldn't visit me even once at the end of each week i would go to have to visit him we lived like that for four years well come to no man's land and neighborhood that is technically part of jerusalem. but in reality is on the palestinian side of the security wall that israel has built some two thousand mixed couples live here. the problem of cooper rocket is that so many people are immigrating to the area because they have to so

in four years we've had a growth of thirty five thousand people it's become more crowded than gaza. so hair and stuff one came to live here six years ago with their three children but life in the village is far from ideal the schools are overcrowded garbage is collected only once a week and there's little fresh water so if one is old and sick and basic health services are hard to come by. my husband and my daughter don't have israeli i.d.'s and they can't pass through the checkpoint any special permission which is very difficult to get on the other hand i enter my children have israeli id we have a lot of problems far curve is in north jerusalem eighty two percent of the land belongs to jerusalem eighteen percent to the west bank residents pay taxes to the israeli government but because the area lies outside the israeli wall israel is slow to provide services the municipality says that many of the people living in

far cub are doing so illegally and so it's not obliged to provide them with services it also says that the security wall makes it more complicated to carry out the services and the state needs to give it more money there have been small victories though residents took the municipality to court and one garbage collection at least for now should be more frequent this is the minimal level i'm from the instability that they deal with us as an enemy as an arab in jerusalem so we have to change that because we have our right we will be the taxes everything and the suffering from that phones and internet access are limited because palestinian companies are not allowed to install lines in a so-called israeli area and because the israeli police won't come here law enforcement is scarce. there are poorly because like this one the goal is to make them not part of jerusalem and to make them fall under the jurisdiction of the palestinian authority and living in the middle of it all are couples like so hard and stuff when they merely want to be together but politics and division are making

that more and more difficult every day police here r.t. jerusalem. in just a couple of minutes all the breaking the set with. ron paul has rejected the national rifle association safety plan and by safety plan the enery proposes basically turning every school in america into a prison camp so on this one ron paul i'm with you in the wake of the tragic events at sandy hook elementary and every vice president wayne la pierre called on congress to immediately appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed police officers in every school year what is the solution to isolated incidents of extreme

violence make every child live their entire school life at gun point before putting armed guards in schools maybe we should take a look at the fact that more than twenty five percent of american kids are on medication and that's just the kids altering their mental state legally mom is working two jobs so she isn't around dad is a wall and the t.v. who's the new parent shows kids nothing but images glorify violence for revenge and torture when someone is getting harassed every day at school and maybe getting harassed at home they feel totally alone and they see no future and no escape from the hell that they're in they are going to take drastic measures to get out of it you know in the fifty's sixty's and seventy's there were still plenty of guns and there were no armed officers in schools but there were no shootings society change and school violence erupted societies what needs to change to call them things back down but that's just my opinion.

you live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous i had lunch i got so many i mean. i believe that i'm still really messed up. in the old story so personally. it's. worse for belief in the white house because a. radio guy and four minutes from. what we're about to did you never seen anything like this until. some guys welcome back to break in the set hope you all enjoyed a little bit of our an hour of the holidays now it's two thousand and thirteen

a year that is so far brought us no shortage of stories but before we take a look at the present let's take a look back at two thousand and twelve a year in which the u.s. carried out more drone strikes in afghanistan than it had and all the years in pakistan combined since it launched its covert war eight years ago let me break it down for you the stats which were published in a new report by the u.s. air force show that in two thousand and twelve there were three hundred and thirty three drone strikes in afghanistan alone up from two ninety four in two thousand and eleven and two seventy eight and two thousand and ten yet drone strikes on the up and up and interestingly enough this up stick and targeted attacks is taking place at the same time that the us government says the war is winding down because as long as we see the troops withdrawing the war is over right or wrong because now the occupation of afghanistan has evolved into an entirely different tactic drone warfare type of warfare that will shatter your sense of security and stability and it's more than enough.