to reignite. with police and detaining protesters who have demanded. an end to discrimination by the authorities. new reports revealed that the f.b.i. was aware of an assassination plot against the occupy wall street activists but never took the time to have. the latest finding. teachers in the u.k. rock bottom as educators complain of a lack of support from the government. and russia's president grants citizenship to french. refugee. offering salvation from the draconian tax proposed.

a very warm welcome to you from all of us here at moscow. has become the new year in much the same way as it finished the old one with a fresh wave of protests across the gulf monarchy security forces in the capital again used tear gas on government demonstrators who are demanding more rights the release of political prisoners there were several arrests as police continue their clampdown on dissent now approaching the two year mark up to eighty people have been killed and thousands detained since the uprising began in february two thousand and eleven. sunni rule has recently called for a dialogue with the opposition but campaigners say the use of torture in

interrogations and police brutality will continue unabated two months ago authorities banned all public gatherings to prevent pro reform campaign is from staging rallies activists. asma darwish says that security forces from aboard a stoking the violence by a talking unarmed civilian. security forces who are of working for the ministry of interior and the train are practicing and ought to by intense and a lot of buying nations to human rights when confronting when pro-democracy protests and behave in and out of practice 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 that by the security forces and behaving who are most to be and not by me and they are working and and they've been super interior and the they were

groups from different countries foreign countries like pakistan and jordan and syria and yesterday in the village where i live and sit on it was tear gas excessively by security forces and i could see security forces running down the streets by my white house and shooting grandin to be inside their houses it movement was completely peace said but after witnessing that west that was during and position to or this this situation and behaving or there have been emotion in bahrain it is unlike to what is what they are it claiming like they are encouraging human rights in different countries arab countries but when it comes to bahrain they use double standards so the protesters here are inviting old though they are those radical and protestors they are the minority and not the majority but they are using such methods to prevent that why didn't security forces from entering there there is the religious and attacking on our civilians and children like we

witnessed and the big you off of the four year old child being attacked by security forces with your gas canisters. well you know as i look at a website. r.t. dot com for more opinions and analysis about the ongoing protests in bahrain simply put or your daughter don't go. it has 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 the potential danger it follows revelations that the bureau was spying on activists from the very start of the protests and even branded them as domestic terror and a criminal threat artie's more important reports. 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 find 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 optic 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 file 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 twenty 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. to correspond to more important. miller an independent journalist who was the occupy protests so as to be 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 that's you know as arky prime might say the one percent. what you not see now the quality of education of britain's future generations could be at risk as teachers morale in england and wales has now hit a new dangerous low just a bit earlier our london correspondent laura smith spoke to my colleague kevin owen why plus now over seventy percent of teachers believe that education in the u.k. is ultimately on the wrong path. 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 highs and lows of life in the classroom incredibly low morale but also frustration 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 revamped the national curriculum and the education system from what it was before

say they're 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 so there certainly is you know teachers talk about how cuts in general have affected families and the students that they teach they say that if i'm really 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 sense what the government is doing wrong is its whole approach to austerity because one of the things that 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 drop struck stickley which it has had lots of places children are coming to school hungry they haven't had first they may not go home and get a meal of 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 families 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 mortgage and they say that they don't feel trusted as professionals and that's of course has a huge impact on future generations of children and in fact the national union of teachers is not ruling out striking unions across never rule out striking. 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. the president signed a decree granting russian citizenship to one of the world's highest profile tax refugees a french megastar. so the details now it seems are really going to go is standing by to join us live here on the program today. it is a good to see you to tell us more certainly rather intriguing stuff going. well it

is intriguing the from the for the first glance but if you look into it really doesn't come as a surprise now we should start probably with the fact that. french citizenship and has moved to belgium where he apparently has a real estate at his disposal and therefore he's been granted residency in belgium all of this stems from this law all that long this trying to push through in france which will see french citizens who earn more than one million euros a year pay seventy five percent of their earnings to taxes are deployed yeah has issued an open letter saying that he as a french citizen has paid more than one hundred forty five million euros throughout his working life and he feels that that is actually enough and these new conditions which would say which he would be living under should be new law come into fact are simply unimaginable and he does not want to be a french citizen anymore with this government but he's also enjoyed a longstanding friendship with the russian president and he did joke at one point

at least that it seemed like a joke at the ball at the moment that he is considering moving to russia or montenegro because of the situation with the french government and the new new law apparently a lot of people have taken that remark quite life heartedly except for the russian president who said that if your argy bargy is in need of such assistance then he is ready to sign the appropriate documents and it seems like he has actually signed these documents and we may be soon seen as you are. a frequent guest in russia. as well as possibly in belgium to the. president. this is really. really did not seem to be conflicting. that he considers himself to be the citizen of the world. already also saying that for the past year eighty five percent of everything he.

simply put there from the french president says well you know what i don't like the bridge to see what the future holds for me. thank you. well going for gold the french capital's being hit by a string of robberies. jewelry shop. the break ins on hard economic times. just. good luck. to building a new. three

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a number of age old problems are on the rise in france the faltering economy has led to a startling. robberies with gold and high value jewelry being with more on this correspondent. until a month ago this was one of many jewelry shops on a quiet street in central paris after a gruesome attack by armed robbers it 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 armored door 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. it is small so when you fall for for barry 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 as a commodity. 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 goal there but the problem may only fade away when the financial turmoil does. alexi russia of ski r.t. reporting from paris. and on our website r.t.

dot com 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 ousted libyan leader moammar gadhafi. also online for you at r.t. dot com millions around the world vowed to shed the pounds as part of a new year resolutions the controversial study claims of being overweight actually leads to a longer life or flush out all the details for you on our web site. for now as the u.n. says the syrian conflict death toll has now reached sixty thousand but the rebels warn they're prepared to use chemical weapons a member of the insurgent army claims they now have the capability to produce chemical and are ready to unleash them on assad loyalists this comes amid the latest spate of violence in the country up to seventy people reportedly killed when an alleged government strike hit a fuel station in the damascus suburbs

a top international peace envoy to syria warns the country faces unless a ceasefire is brokered some experts blame the lack of progress on the western backed rebels. peace negotiation and peace initiative presented by brahimi last russia is not accepted by the opposition at the moment. the opposition is. party who is. refusing any negotiation with the government position have the chemical weapons this is a very dangerous and will be very serious matter and i think. they don't have. legal bounding limits to use it. is to be used and. initiates some kind of international this whole thing gives them government this is

a dangerous position and i think that this is what this unity government should have always been saying that these two undermine their government and to. get some kind of international attention international support specially from the nato on the powers of the west. now two of america's top rating agencies say that congress hasn't done enough to remove the risk of another credit downgrade even despite the deal to delay going over the so-called 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 is now gone over sixteen point four trillion dollars limit earlier congress approved 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 all been put on hold at least for the next two months congress works out its next moves in the bill also raises tax

rates on the high earners for the first time in two decades a financial analyst at max fraud wolf so the bickering on capitol hill puts the country's reputation at stake 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 in 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. almost as this dragged out 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 expiring 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 when 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 that they executed a year they want to talk about half twist on their way down what they did not how they landed on their face not their feet. some of the global news for you a brief time for the are now and a u.s. drone strike has killed a prominent warlord and his deputy in the tribal area of northwest pakistan pakistan. 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 a separate american asteroid to the north that killed former. venezuela's

opposition has called on the government to give detailed information about the health of president hugo chavez who hasn't made any public appearances since having cancer surgery in cuba three weeks ago now chavez is due to be sworn in for another six year term next week and it's not yet clear whether he'll be able to attend. now it's one of the most divided parts of a divided land in the northeastern area of east jerusalem israel's huge separation wall means many palestinian families have no choice but to live apart. when the find out what effect that 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 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 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 checkpoint any special permission which is very difficult to get on the other hand i am to have 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 which didn't 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 curb 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 to 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 them in a bubble and from the instability that they deal with us as an enemy and arabs in jerusalem so we have to can't that because we have our right we will be the text of

everything and the suffering from their 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 booklets 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 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. or in just a few minutes here and out so you know we recap the end of the two thousand and twelve apocalypse that's in our special report justice.

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 so yeah 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 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 changed and school violence erupted societies what needs to change to call them things back down but that's just my opinion. it's a job but it's also a religious vocation that's pushing her to constantly find new ways. as of developing a business. today she visited this cave in the denver area. it's a more than three kilometer deep maze the spot is for sale and robin is thinking about buying it for the construction of more underground shelters if somebody was to light a fire and hear what.