fresh cross has three ignite in bahrain with police state gassing and detaining protesters who have demanded equal rights and announced discrimination by the authorities. new reports reveal that the f.b.i. was aware of an assassination plot against occupy wall street outfits but can never understand. the latest findings show more wrong among teachers in the u.k. as the wrong as educators complain of a lack of support from the government to. international

news and comment live from moscow this is all she was me about hello and welcome to the program. bahrain has begun the new year in much the same way as it finished with a fresh wave of protests across the gulf motorcade security forces in the capital manila again used tear gas on to government demonstrators who are demanding more rights under the release of political prisoners there were several arrests as police continued that clamp down on dissent now approaching the two you have logged people have been killed and thousands descend says that uprising began in february twenty seventh bahrain's sunni rule has recently called for donald with the opposition but campaigners say the piece of torture interrogations and police brutality will continue on the basis that two months ago sources beyond all public gatherings to prevent pro reform components from staging rallies activist darwish says security forces far broader stoking the van and spawn talking unarmed civilians. security forces who are working for the ministry of interior and i mean

are practicing a lot of buy ins and a lot to boil nations to human rights when confronting when pro-democracy protests and behave in practice took place in many different villages and areas around behaving and all of them all of them got a. crack they were cracked down by that by the security forces and behaving who are most to be knocked by hillary and they are working and end of any super interior and the where groups 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 existed by security forces and i could see security forces running down the streets by my white house and shooting grand in the inside the houses movement was completely peace there but after witnessing the west that was

during and position toward this this situation in bahrain or there have been you show. and by me it is unlike to what is 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 inviting although they are those radical and protestants they are the minority and not the majority but they are using such methods to prevent them why didn't security forces from entering their their religious and tacking on armed civilians and children like we witnessed and the big you hand off of the four year old child being attacked by security forces with tear gas canisters and you can always log on to our website for more opinions and analysis about the protests in bahrain just go to aussie dot com.

as been revealed that the f.b.i. knew of a plot to assassinate members of the occupy wall street movement but didn't alert them to their potential danger it follows revelations that the bureau was spying on x. hits from the start of the protests and even granted them domestic terror under criminal sweat or in a court in our city's hell's. 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 opic 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 in 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 potential 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. an independent journalist who will serve the occupy protests says the f.b.i. is siding with the so-called one percent of u.s. 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 it's these corporations and 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 educational britain's future generations could bear true school teachers morale in england and wales has a dangerous new and our london correspondent laura smith told my colleague kevin o'connor why over seventy percent of teachers believe education in the u.k. is on the wrong poles the national union of teachers the biggest teachers' union in the u.k. has commissioned a survey which says that morale among teachers has dropped dramatically they talked about the holidays and lows of life in the classroom incredibly low morale but also frustrated continual criticism and interference from the government they said and the figures are quite staggering actually fifty five percent of teachers surveyed said that more always are the very. 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 just five percent felt that this current coalition government impact on the education system was positive and they had more specific about what the teachers don't like about the government's policies. 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 revamped the national curriculum and the education system from what it was before say that constantly on the back foot trying to get used to new systems there's a new test now where children aged just by are tested on phonics some children obviously fail that test and teachers are saying that if you fail a test age five at 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 there certainly is you know teachers talk about how cuts in general have affected families and the students that they teach they say that families have poorer than they children have less access to technology at home they have parents you 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 the general science 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 that have to move schools and of course you know family income drops just to clean which it has had lots of places children

are covered 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 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 nash course has a huge impact on future generations of children and in fact the national union of teachers was not ruling out striking unions of which never rule out striking. told me specifically that they don't you left out. the government is attacking pay and conditions and in fact just before christmas mike who 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 has now reached sixty thousand the rebels one that prepared to use chemical weapons and then told the insurgent on explains they now have the capability to produce chemical arms and are ready to unleash them on assad loyalists and this comes amid the latest spate of violence in the country after seventy people were reportedly killed for alleged government as trying to hit a fuel station base in moscow suburbs the top international peace envoy to syria was the country faces help unless a ceasefire was broken some experts blamed the lack of progress on the western backed rebels. if. peace negotiation and peace initiative presented by a brahimi last russia is not accepted by the opposition at the moment situation in syria will be escalating so the opposition is. the party who is. refusing any negotiation with the government one position have chemical weapons this is

a very dangerous and will be very serious matter and i think. they don't have. all the. legal bounding limits to use it and the danger now is to be used and then blame the government. initiate some kind of international response against the syrian government this is a dangerous position and i think that this is what the syrian government has always been saying that these to undermine the syrian government and to 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 shop owners have raised blaming the break ins on hard economic times this story. just ahead.

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zero three broadcast quality video for your media projects free media oh god r.t. dot com. this is off the welcome bok the standards of living across the euro zone continue to fall a number of age old problems are on the rise and fall as the faltering economy has led to a startling such an armed robbery with golden high value jury the main target. until a month ago this was one of my jury shops on a quiet street in central paris office a gruesome attack by. never reopened for business having kids. 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 jewelry 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

and we've 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 it's a 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 of a. lot of products increase prices. despite so much gold legal and stolen openly on cereal experts say this is seriously damaging the market private buyers are springing up and buying

the precious metal at the number of price police created a special unit to deal with go there but the problem may only fade away when the financial door moral drugs lets you rush have skewed reporting from paris. on a website called for you right now a french quarter is waiting to hear evidence suggesting that the former president nicolas sarkozy accepted tens of millions of euros and campaign donations from ousted libyan leader moammar gadhafi. and also known as millions around the world vowed to lose weight as part of the new year's resolutions a cultural shall study claims that being spot i truly stolen life will flush out all the details for you on our website. top u.s. arms makers looking east in a bid to flange the volatile asia pacific region with weapons full cost project a further increase in the flow of american vote to countries in the area where

several territorial disputes recently reached a boiling point independent john as james corbett says the exports trick could backfire on washington. what we can see is really just a return to a very old imperial strategy of building up a bogeyman in order to then create the sales to to combat those bogeyman so it's a very old strategy it was identified by name 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 i think it creates a situation where the economics may be what's driving this that 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 aging has its eye on what's happening with taiwan and the effort to retrofit the f. sixteen fleet of of taiwan but also the japanese x. ray to expand radar for example that just recently has is being expanded and 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 the need sync island dispute between japan and john. two of america's top of racing agencies say congress hasn't done enough to remove the risk of another credit downgrade even despite the deal today going over the fiscal cliff moody's and standard and poor's are calling on lawmakers to actually come up with a plan to slash the growing national debt which has gone over a sixteen point four trillion dollars limit and the house of representatives

approved a son of 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 mark's father wolf says the bickering on capitol hill police the country's reputation. congress 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 damage the united states because all the uncertainty it 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 that 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're 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 i want a 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 know 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 past twist on their way down what they did not how they landed on their face not their feet. now a u.s. drone strike has killed a prominent warlord and his deputy in the tribal area of northwest pakistan pakistani intelligence says that malvo and eight others died after a missile hit a house in a village near the afghan border the commander and his militants are accused of

attacking the u.s. military in afghanistan on a separate american as strike to the north to the north cold formal part. in india a state in the way it is facing charges of crimes against women could be suspended from office that sounds the country's top court is expected to rule on a petition for temple regulations against sexual assault the document was submitted in the aftermath of a violent gang rape of a twenty three year old university student in new delhi two weeks ago six suspects detained in the case so do you to be formally charged later also stay. venezuela's opposition has called on the government to give detailed information about the health of present charges and he hasn't made any public appearances since having cancer so drink cuba three weeks ago charice is 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 leaves jerusalem israel's huge separation wall means many palestinian families have no choice but to live apart policia one that to find out what effect it has on everyday life. israelis 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 out in the cold. one hundred my husband this from happening 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 there he couldn't visit me even once at the end of each week i would go to have been to visit him but lived like that for four years well come to no man's land a 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 arca 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. hair and so 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 checkpoints 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 cub 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 uniquely 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 stay. 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 problem from the instability that they deal with us as an enemy and arabs in jerusalem so we have to change that because we have our right we will be the text of 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. and. there are poorly because like this one the goal is to make them not part of jerusalem 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 soft they nearly want to be together but politics and division are making that more and more difficult every day police here r.t. jerusalem. and coming out of social break a loyalist have brings us her take on the global financial headlines. 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 revenge and torture what 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 changed and school violence erupted societies what needs to change to call them things back

down but that's just my opinion. good afternoon welcome to capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. these are your headlines for wednesday january second two thousand and thirteen happy new year it's two thousand and thirteen we're back let's reflect on some of the economic predictions that never came to be last year so our thinking can progress pragmatic capitalist colon roche is here to explain why some folks were wrong about inflation as an example and what the fed's overly optimistic past predictions mean for its future guidance and we have heard about it ad infinitum. the senate strikes a deal on the fiscal cliff but not before we the fish we fall off the cliff to just two hundred so just. go get your charger meaning it is now the house where. you

are dear smart viewers i'm sure already know about the deal congress reached then that it leaves lawmakers wrangling again in a couple months over the debt ceiling and the spending cuts that they delayed but when it comes to the reported six hundred billion dollars over ten years in new revenue this deal is said to raise never mind the new deficit it creates what does that kind of money by any way we have a reality check plus why is the government involved in keeping the price of milk was no part of the fiscal cliff deal involved of burning what some have dubbed a dairy cliff will discuss and wall wrong cliffs we have five phrases we'd like to retire this year that's in loose change let's get to today's capital account.