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the government. with a worldwide. this is. welcome to the program. has become the new year much the same way as the old one with a fresh wave of protests across the gulf security forces in the capital of. government demonstrators who are demanding more rights on the release of political prisoners and there were several arrests as police continue. now approaching. eighty people have been killed and thousands detained since the uprising began in february two thousand. 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 with already has banned all public gatherings to prevent pro reform campaign is from staging rallies activist darwish says security forces from abroad are stoking the violence by attacking unarmed civilians. security forces who are working for the ministry of interior and my head are practicing a lot of buy and then i love to violations to human rights when confronting women for democracy process and behaving a lot of process took place and many different villages and areas around behaving and all of them all of them god. and they were a crackdown by that by the security forces and by hanes who are most to be and not by me and they are working. and them and so and period and they they were

brought from different countries foreign countries like pakistan and jordan and syria and yesterday and the village where i live and sitting on it was here gaz assisted me by security forces and i could see security force of the running down the street by by my house and shooting grams in the inside the house that is a movement was compete he said but after witnessing the west that was during an position towards this situation in bahrain or there have been two should and bahrain it is unlike to what to what they are actually making like they are in cars and human rights in different countries arab countries but when it comes to buying they use double standard so the process there is here and by having although they are those rights because process they are the minority and not the majority but they are using such methods to prevent of them violent security forces from

entering them there is their religion and attacking it on armed civilians and children like we witnessed and a big deal and also of the four year old child being attacked by security forces with tear gas canisters. and you can always log onto our web site for more opinions and analysis about the protests ongoing in bahrain you know the score it's a r.t. dot com. now it's 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 domestic terror and a criminal threat artie's marina portnoy has details. 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 a 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 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. an independent journalist who was a protest says that the f.b.i. is siding with the so-called one percent of 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 protests 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. for moscow this is are the russian president president putin has signed a decree granting russian citizenship to one of the world's highest profile tax refugees and we're talking about the french megastar jihad. details now from oxys are an accomplished. to 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 real estate at his disposal and

therefore he's been granted residency in belgium all of this stems from this wall that the longest 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. 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. he would be living under should the 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 that he is considering moving to russia or montenegro a lot of people have taken that remark quite like heartedly except for the russian president who said that it. is in need of such assistance that he is ready to sign

the appropriate documents and it seems like he has actually documents we may be soon seen. as a frequent guest in russia as well as possibly in belgium the residence and the russian citizen citizenship really do not seem to be conflicting the self has said that he considers himself to be the citizen of the world. and the quality of education of britain's future generations could be at risk as teachers morale in england and wales is now dangerous new low. correspondent laura smith told my colleague and i was over seventy percent of teachers believe education in the u.k. 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 a quote 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. 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 teaches a 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 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 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 clear which it has and what's a places children are coming to school hungry they haven't had first they may not go 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 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 and that 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. 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. what you are going for gold the french capital has been hit by a string of robberies. claiming the break ins on hard economic times those details just ahead. good luck. to building.

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this is he with me. standards of living across the eurozone continue to fold a number of age old problems are on the rise in france the faltering economy has led to a stop. to robberies with gold and high value jewelry being the main targets. he has more on this. until. jewelry shops on a 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 jewelry say they're 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 this will be twelve years of a continues to rise of the price of gold gold is tiny it's a small so it is when you fall for four very he's not so difficult because it's something you could put in your pocket it's easy for people. to to be shops this is one of the consequence negative consequence. or as a commodity we'll instead a lot of product increased 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 there but the problem may only fade away when the

financial turmoil does. r.t. reporting from paris. right now a french quarter. suggesting the former president. accepted. campaign donations from the libyan leader. for us and millions around the world. as part of a new year resolutions a controversial new study being overweight. rushing out all the details for you. now as the u.n. says the syrian conflict death toll has now reached sixty thousand rebels warn they're prepared to use chemical weapons. claims they now have the capability to produce chemical arms and ready to unleash the lawyers lists this comes amid the latest spate of violence in the country after seventy people were reportedly killed

when an alleged government as strike hit a fuel station in the damascus suburbs are the top international. faces. cease fire is broken some experts blame the lack of progress on the western backed rebels. if. peace negotiation and peace initiative presented by brahimi russia is not accepted by the opposition at the moment the situation in syria will be escalating so the opposition is. party who is. refusing any negotiation with the government one position have chemical weapons this is a very dangerous and very very serious matter and i think. they don't have. all the legal bounding limits to not to use 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 a dangerous position and i think that this is what the syrian government should have always been saying that these two undermine the syrian government and two to get some kind of international attention international support especially from the nato on the powers of the west. right or twenty minutes past the hour here in the russian capital two of america's top rating agencies say congress hasn't done enough to remove the risk of another credit downgrade and 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 has gone over sixteen point four trillion dollars limit earlier congress did approve 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 and the bill also raises tax rates on high earners for the first time in two decades financial analyst max fried wolf says 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 and 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 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 the nation's problems it was an expiring 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 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 execute here they want to talk about half twist on their way down what they did not how they landed on their face not their feet. and as good as some of the global news for you brief now it's time for the he will starting with a u.s. drone strike which has killed a prominent warlord and his deputy in the tribal area of northwest pakistan. intelligence says that. and eight others died after a missile hit a house in a village near the afghan border and the commander and his militants are accused of

attacking the u.s. military in afghanistan a separate american a strike to the north killed for. venezuela's opposition has called on the government to give detailed information about the health of president hugo chavez he hasn't made any public appearances since having cancer surgery in cuba three weeks ago he was due to be sworn in for another six year term next week but it's not yet clear whether or not he'll be able to attend. well if there's one of the most divided parts of a divided learned in the northern area of east jerusalem israel's huge separation wall means that many palestinian families have no choice but to live apart artie's paula slipper went there to find out what effect this ultimately has on every day life israelis cannot live in the west bank and most palestinians which leaves those israelis and palestinians who want to share a home out in the cold. one hundred my husband this from have been i'm from

terrorists and i don't know husband this from have brought 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 archerd is that so many people are immigrating to the area because they have to so in four years we've had a group 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 they need 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 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 cut 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 problem from the instability. of an enemy in jerusalem so we have to can't

that because we have our right we will be the texas 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 on the house among us. 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 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 are to jerusalem. oh i dunno just a couple of minutes here and i'll see it'll be i'll be mocked in doing what she does best taking on the mainstream media breaking the set just a moment. we'll

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welcome back to breaking the set hope you all enjoyed a little bit of r. and r. 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 to 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 in all the years and 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 thirty three drone strikes in afghanistan alone from two ninety four in two thousand and eleven and two seventy eight and two thousand and ten yep drone strikes on the up and up and interestingly enough this uptick in 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.