the f.b.i. is accused of failing to warn american occupy activists that there was a plot against their lives despite knowing about plans to assassinate u.s. citizens. swapping france for russia. is now officially a russian citizen after a time drove him out of his home country. british teachers say they feel the government is against them so a drop in morale threatens to dramatically impact the education of future generations.

with us here on r t today. live in moscow. it has been revealed that the f.b.i. knew of a plot to assassinate occupy wall street activists but didn't alert them to potential danger but it was instead spying on members of the movement branding them as criminals and domestic terrorists details on this not watching is more important. 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 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 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 autism are an important reporting right now the f.b.i. is mission is to protect and defend americans but i'm an. independent journalist who is a protest so is the only 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. now french movie star gerard depardieu has been granted russian citizenship that he decided to say or of want to his home country i'm good with his attempt to ramp up taxes for the mega rich are going to go to school explains what made him turn to russia. this is a russian passport and it seems that pretty soon it will have an exact same little book of course with a different name and a different picture now this is kind of shocking news for a lot of the public especially in russia but if you really delve into the story then it shouldn't come as a surprise. 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 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. has issued an open letter saying that he has 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 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 life heartedly except for the russian president who said that. he is in need of such assistance that he is ready to sign the propre documents and it seems like he has actually signed these documents and we may be soon seen. as a frequent guest in russia as well as possibly in belgium. himself has said that he

considers himself to be the citizen of the world. britain's future generation is being put at risk by a dramatic drop in the nation's teachers they say the government is stifling the students at the end of paying the price. to find out what they believe has gone wrong. 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 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's a 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 revamp 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 it has 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 anymore so they're certainly you know teachers talk about how cuts in general have affected families and the students that they teach they say that if 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 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 they may not go 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 families who are british teachers will get nervous about reform they want changes not 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 of which never rule out striking. they don't rule it 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. so. the french capital suffers a string of robberies. and jewelry shop. blaming the break ins on hard economic times. but. look at what life is like in. district. after the break. to teach me. this is why you should.

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robberies in france gold jewelry shops of the main targets and the people working in them and getting more nervous every day this report. 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 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 to 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 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 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 in 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 and it's

a small so when you. he's not so difficult because it's something you could put in your pocket. for people. to. shop this is one of the consequence negative consequence was 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 that but the problem may only fade away when the financial turmoil does. alexi russia of ski r.t. reporting from paris. president obama has signed the fiscal cliff bill into law

preventing the u.s. economy from sliding back into recession and the deal removed the most urgent threat but only delayed the toughest decisions of the law rushed through by congress prevented deep spending cuts and income tax hikes which technically took effect at midnight on january the first income tax will only rise for the wealthy and it will almost all americans will still end up paying more in federal tax law makers postpone decisions on the deficit and the debt ceiling for two months praising themselves for saving the economy from going over the fiscal cliff but some economists think there's little for them to be happy about. 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 edge 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 and everybody was much more interested in grandstanding and talking ideological purity than solving the nation's problems it was an expiry of a tax cut 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 plan that they executed here they want to talk about the half twist on their way down what they did not how they landed on their face not their feet. but watching r.t. and drawing attention to themselves yet again

a french magazine publisher is a comic book barbara for you of the prophet muhammad mocking islamize found just months after a blasphemous amateur film's violence from muslims around the world more details on that on our website. and the echoes of the tragedy a six year old american elementary school student has been suspended after he formed with his hands pointed at another student and said. there's been a fresh wave of protests in bahrain to mark twenty thirteen with unrest now just over a month away from hitting the two year mark several arrests have also been reported with police again resorting to tear gas in their violent clampdown on public gatherings the opposition is demanding a transition to democracy and the resignation of the prime minister who's held this position for nearly forty years. the recently jailed two policeman for beating

a protester to death in two thousand and eleven and cut sentences for several activists who took part in that year's uprising human rights campaigners however say all political prisoners should be released before he said no intention of carrying out reforms to eighty people have been killed and thousands detained since february two thousand and eleven and activist darwish claims security forces from abroad are contributing to the violence by attacking unarmed civilians in their homes. security forces who are working for the ministry of interior and russian are practicing a lot of by and. by nations to. 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 the way the security forces and behaving who are most to be and not

by me 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 excessive you by security forces and i could see security forces running down the streets by applying white house and shooting grandin to be inside their houses it movement was completely peace said but after witnessing the west that was tearing at position two or that this is to ration and bombing or there have been 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 inviting old though they are those radical protestors they are the minority and not the majority but they are using such

methods to prevent their violent security forces from entering their their and their religious and attacking on armed civilians and children like we witnessed and the big you have off of the four year old child being attacked by security forces with here gas canisters. are that's on our attention now that to us syria's north heavy fighting reported that where rebel fighters stormed a strategic air base in the province and the now even claim to have the capability of producing chemical weapons and off threatening to use them the u.n. meantime says more than sixty thousand people have not being killed in the ongoing conflict. some experts say the lack of dialogue will ultimately lead to even more deaths if. peace negotiation and peace initiative presented by brahimi last russia is not accepted by the opposition at the moment the situation in syria will be if. the opposition is.

refusing any negotiation with the government of position have a chemical weapons this is a very dangerous and waited very serious matter and i think they don't have actually carol all of the legal bounding limits to not to use it is a 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 have always been saying that these to undermine the syrian government and to to get some kind of international attention and international support specially from the nato and the powers of the west. i let's get some other to global news here on r t time for the world update will start with a u.s.

drone strike it's killed senior pakistani militants that have more lot of and his deputy commander and eight others died in the missile attack in the tribal regions bordering afghanistan and his followers had ties to the afghan taliban and were accused of targeting the u.s. military in afghanistan on the same day a separate american airstrike to the north killed four. in libya the acting head of the criminal investigations department has been kidnapped. was held up by are known gunmen of the traffic lights in benghazi and taken away at gunpoint radical islamists are believed to be behind the kidnapping of benghazi has become a focal point for militant groups and has witnessed a string of attacks against police stations and military offices. a group of lawyers have staged a protest outside a new delhi district court where police were preparing to file charges against a group of men who gang raped a student on a bus the protesters demanded the resignation of the police or. of law in order to

get all the violence against women the five suspects have been charged with the gang rape and murder of an indian female student the suspect is believed to be under eighteen other violent attacks sparked outrage across the country prompting hundreds to protest for the death penalty for the men and to demand better protection of women's rights. now they are cut off from israel cut off from the palestinians a neighborhood which is part of jerusalem but lies beyond israel separation barrier . is the only safe haven for mixed families but it so isolation means the people have no one to rely upon bought themselves out his policy or went to meet those who live there. 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 have written 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 it is on the palestinian side of the security wall that israel has built some two thousand mixed couples live here. the problem of cooper arkell 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. through here 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 part is one of the. many special permission which is very difficult to get on the other hand i am to have my children have israeli i.d.'s they 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 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 the state needs. 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 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 has a monitor and. there are poorly booklets 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 merely want to be together but politics and division are making that more and more difficult every day police here r.t. jerusalem. i don't just mean here and say you will have to over to the crazy skies or of course with the latest report from the front line of what he calls the global financial this is oh it's.

ron paul has rejected the national rifle association safety plan and by safety plan the n.r.a. 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 change and school violence erupted societies what needs to change to call them things back down but that's just my opinion. the a.

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